[Peace-discuss] AAUP on UIUC/Salaita

[ewjohnson via Peace-discuss]

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Well it's half past time for BigU to un-suck itself
but there is little danger of it
getting it's head unscrewed,
or screwed on right.

On 08/30/2014 12:17 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> Vonnegut wrote about a Pilgrim who became "un-suck in time" (or something like that) in the midst of a criminal bombing campaign - perhaps fits the present experience to a "t"...
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> I think the UI will get away with it, but in years past it would have been easier. The fact that there's been such an outcry is some sort of victory.
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>  From WWI through Vietnam, universities did such things frequently, and quietly.
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> On Aug 29, 2014, at 10:56 PM, ewjohnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> What's brown and rhymes with a bell?
>>
>> It would seem that Ms. Wise has slipped off into some quite deep dung.
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>> But she has the buoyancy of a large segment of the U of I culture behind her so it's not
>> the "slam dunk" that it might other-wise seem to be.
>>
>> The "cultural immune system" of University of Illinois @ U-C has for quite a little while now
>> favoured the mealy-mouthed and reticent group-think-ers and has tended to shun the mover and
>> and the shaker, and those who have opinions and ambition to express them.
>>
>> The dumbing-down has been defended as a "maintaining order...".
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>> I recall another dissident, also an alumnus of the U of I as I am,
>> summarizing what the UIUC had become --
>> "This place SUCKS!"
>>
>> As T.S.Geisel did not quite say,
>> "Un-sucking an institution is not easily done".
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>> On 08/30/2014 09:43 AM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:
>>> https://cfaillinois.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/aaup-letter-aug-29.pdf
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