I think this might just be a language thing. College students have sit-ins and other kinds of protests here, all the time. A sit-in is kin to a strike, I think.

I think this might just be a language thing. College students have sit-ins and other kinds of protests here, all the time. A sit-in is kin to a strike, I think.

That makes sense. That sort of thing happened A LOT less where I went to school. Small, Midwestern state school. Football games and drinking were more the order of the day.

I should have picked a more progressive school. I think I'd have fared well at a protest-heavy school.

Some McGill students chained themselves to fences to protest the 100% increase in tuition while I was there. Since it brought a semester up to about $1200 Canadian, I didn't bother with it. But there was quite a bit of demonstration, etc. But McGill was kinda like that.

ita, did you and brenda know each other at McGill? Were you there the same years?

We've a VERY different educational system here, obviously. Think more "binge drinking" and less "social consciense."

Well, obviously. I mean, even the age differences alone - students here are very rarely under the age of 21, and in most of the cases only start their after-highschool studies after a minimum 2 (girls) or 3 (boys) years of mandatory army service

College students have sit-ins and other kinds of protests here, all the time. A sit-in is kin to a strike, I think.

Do all the students in a country (or, well, a state, I guess), as a whole, not just of one university, go together on this "we won't enter classes until our demands are met"? Because that's what's going on here.

I don't think we overlapped, Cindy. But I was there for four years after I graduated, so we may very well have passed each other in the street (or on campus, since I spent quite a lot of time there after graduating).

Nope. We're not that organized.

No, but our country is so big. In so many ways, it's like fifty countries. Plus, some of our universities are private and some are state funded, but different states run their state universities and colleges differently.

The Vietnam war was probably the biggest issue over which American college students demonstrated.

Also, most US college students are paying large sums of money to attend college. Not going to class would be sort of hurting yourself, to the students who care (to the students who don't care, not going to class is an everyday occurrance.)

I don't think we overlapped, Cindy. But I was there for four years after I graduated, so we may very well have passed each other in the street (or on campus, since I spent quite a lot of time there after graduating).

I always wonder which Buffistas knew each other before they were either Buffistas or active on Salon's TT. The Bronzers knew each other, obviously. I know Sean, Emily, MM and Aimee knew each other. Obviously flea and Nutty knew each other. Amy Parker and connie knew each other. I think Daniel and askye knew each other somewhere else.