In a message dated 2/18/03 6:48:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > (second time with this -with some corrections) > Yah, students, especially, get sucked into every kind of > exploitation and dumb promotion. > When I was at the University majoring in cold war history, I had > to > endure 'U.S. Twentieth Century' history, three quarters, two of them I > had, > Berman and Noble, -were working their guts out to make the kids think the > United States was a bad outfit, Theodore Roosevelt was really Hitler in > disguise, so on and so on. > There are a lot of older-than-student types that never got their > egos built up enough in the real world so they go back and try to be > Gods, -build up followings. > When I was there Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda were there every > few weeks and some group was advertising big women's meetings on > Masturbation, -then they canceled the meeting because lots of guys were > calling up to help. (Believe it or not, that is true, I worked at the > Admissions Office and people were exclaiming under their breath about it.) > So I suppose some non professorial types will be holding meetings > on campus and trying to give the kids as warped as possible of an outlook > and attitude towards their country and the world. > James Jacobsen // Whittier > > > Keith Says; I enjoyed this recollection of the U of M (Mpls), experienced by the gent. His opinions and observations are germane. Please Karen Collier; do not pencil him out arbitrarily! I would like to hear more. Keith Reitman NearNorth As a curtesy I ran it through Spellchecker. TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
