[Peace-discuss] Student occupation

[C. G. Estabrook]

I taught at the U. of Rochester for two years in the dark backward and abysm of 
time (1978-80) and in fact enjoyed it a lot.  Following this link, I found that 
Rochester's "Campus Times" has not changed its type face in 30 years.  (It was I 
think one of the first university newspapers to be written and edited entirely 
on computers.)

Rochester is a strangely isolated place.  (The campus is partially surrounded by 
a cemetery, which contains the mortal remains of both Frederick Douglass and 
Susan B. Anthony; it's so cold and snowy that the major campus buildings are 
connected by tunnels; and Steve, the bartender at the faculty club, who made a 
famous vodka martini with the conjuration, "It's all in the wrist," pried the 
Watney's Red Barrel dispenser from the bar and presented it to me as I left 
town.)  If I may be allowed one self-referential story, as the election of 1980 
approached, the then-editor of the student paper asked me to write an analysis 
for a special edition; he also asked a number of members of the political 
science [sic] department to do so; they agreed -- on the condition that the 
paper not publish my article...

I'm proud of the contemporary UR students. --CGE


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> Just wait till it gets warmer...
> 
> David Green wrote:
>> http://prometheus.scp.rochester.edu/ursds/node/86
>>
>> SDS Students occupy a building for 9 hours on behalf of Palestinian 
>> cause. Maybe Carl is wrong about cold weather uprisings. It's a start.