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).
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2007 4:52:48 am PDT #2917 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2007 4:53:43 am PDT #2918 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nope. We're not that organized.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 17, 2007 4:54:22 am PDT #2919 of 10001
What is even happening?
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.
flea - Apr 17, 2007 4:55:34 am PDT #2920 of 10001
information libertarian
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.)
Topic!Cindy - Apr 17, 2007 4:57:44 am PDT #2921 of 10001
What is even happening?
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.
Nilly - Apr 17, 2007 4:59:03 am PDT #2922 of 10001
Swouncing
In so many ways, it's like fifty countries
That's why I asked about states. But I see from your post that it's even more complicated than that.
most US college students are paying large sums of money to attend college
Here, too. Well, not as much as in the USA, of course, but it's still quite a large sum of money. That's what the protest is all about, in fact.
Tom Scola - Apr 17, 2007 5:00:47 am PDT #2923 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Also, in America it's a lot easier to vote with your feet and transfer to another college if you don't like where you are.
sarameg - Apr 17, 2007 5:04:13 am PDT #2924 of 10001
And even more, colleges and universities are a mix of state-run (like where my dad works) and private (where I attended school), and funding the schools seek can also be a mix.
Theodosia - Apr 17, 2007 5:05:03 am PDT #2925 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
To have a strike I think you need a tipping point of students (and possibly faculty) to shut things down comprehensively. In the 60s/70s there were quite a few campus-wide strikes in the US (especially in the North -- I can definitely remember one at Columbia) related to the war and on-campus military recruiting. This has been hushed up a lot in the popular imagination/memory as the work of hippies, so people are surprised to find out it ever happened.
Burrell - Apr 17, 2007 5:05:34 am PDT #2926 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Community gardens are a wonderful thing. Allyson's sounds lovely.
I didn't read the article, but bacon 14 times a week sounds like a LOT of bacon to me. Although I'm confused as to how it causes COPD.
Also there were sit-ins, demonstrations, and yes, even strikes at Berkeley when I was there. But we had a reputation to keep up.