[Peace-discuss] Student occupation

[John W.]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:41 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

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...


So dear God, what happened???  Whose article(s) did the student newspaper
publish?



> 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.
>>
>>
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