[Peace-discuss] Student occupation

[C. G. Estabrook]

Hadn't though of that.  In fact, the place had a healthy tradition of 
political interest among students a generation ago, when it had been 
effectively stamped out at most US universities.  An important component 
of the neoliberal counterattack ca. 1980 was the suppression of student 
political dissidence, and it was largely successful.  ("Identity 
politics" and then post-modernism were the residuary legatees of 
destroyed campus radicalism.)  --CGE

David Green wrote:
> So maybe it's the tunnels that provide the inspiration for solidarity with Gaza.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu>
> To: E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag>
> Cc: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>; Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 2:41:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Student occupation
> 
> 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.)
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> 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...
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> I'm proud of the contemporary UR students. --CGE
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> E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>> Just wait till it gets warmer...
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>> 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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