[Peace-discuss] Student occupation

[C. G. Estabrook]

Equally likely.

Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> And maybe it's the vodka martinis and Watney's Red Barrel dispenser that 
> provide an explanation for the abbreviated teaching stint...
> 
> --- On *Sun, 2/8/09, David Green /<davegreen84 at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
> 
> From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss]
> Student occupation To: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> Cc: "Peace
> Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 9:21 AM
> 
> 
> So maybe it's the tunnels that provide the inspiration for solidarity with 
> Gaza.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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.)
> 
> 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.