Sunday, May 05, 2024

'Cop and Gown' Funnies


Celebrating graduates the 1968 way, with stomp and circumstance.
As Rob Rogers points out, the crackdown on free speech and assembly being seen on college campuses is at least partly the result of a combination of donor interference with university governance and the harassment of college administrators by a hostile GOP House.

Back in the Vietnam days, we’d read the furious letters in the alumni magazine and laugh, but back then college presidents were made of stronger stuff, Congress blustered but kept hands off, and with a few exceptions it was expected that students were young and idealistic and prone to raising hell from time to time.

Campus cops didn’t carry guns then, and the local police didn’t have armored cars with which to break into buildings the students had taken over.
Corporate media *ahem CNN* failed in most spectacular fascion.
Perhaps we should remind ourselves what the campus protests are about.
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