[Peace-discuss] Student occupation

[C. G. Estabrook]

I modestly decline John's nomination (which I know is heart-felt).

As Gore Vidal put it with a sigh, "Always a godfather, never a ..."


Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> And now JOHN is referring to CARL as God!!  (Didn't we go thru something like
> this before??) Has Hell itself frozen over??? --Jenifer
> 
> 
> --- On *Sun, 2/8/09, John W. /<jbw292002 at gmail.com>/* wrote:
> 
> From: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.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, 12:07 PM
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:41 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu 
> <mailto: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.