[Peace-discuss] Student occupation

[C. G. Estabrook]

I actually don't recall.  Mine, I think, and nothing from the political
scientists.  But it could have been the other way around.

A year or so after I left -- early in the first Reagan administration --
I was invited back to give a speech about the CIA.  My taxes were
audited for the next two years.

I'm reminded of that incident by the recent book on the CIA, "Legacy of
Ashes" by Tim Weiner (a middle of the road NYT reporter).  Reading now
about what the Agency was doing then, I'm sure the criticism I offered
-- and I meant it to be severe -- was far too mild.

The book should be at the top of the reading list for people concerned
about foreign policy today. --CGE


John W. wrote:
> 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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