At 02:00 24/04/2005, soula avramidis wrote:
AG FRANK alomost became my doctoral dissertation supervisor.
there was a story that he was declined entry into the US to give lecture
while he was teaching at concordia. and then Canada refused to take him
back and so left canadian academics did some manoevering to give him back
his post. i do not remember the story but i will ask
My very vague recollection is that Gunder was in the US and discovered when
trying to cross the border that he was in the computers (or whatever) as a
security risk to Canada. This seems to have been during Trudeau's reign. He
ultimately was allowed back in but it may have been post-Trudeau. Gunder
professed ignorance over why this might be, but I think it relates back to
his apparent support for student protestors at Sir George Williams
(subsequently absorbed into Concordia) who destroyed the college computer
(1967?). (This same event, incidentally, was also instrumental in driving
Pope Eugene Genovese to the right.) If I recall correctly, the student
leader (Rosie Douglas?) years later became prime minister in a Caribbean
country (perhaps Dominica).
in sol,
m
Michael A. Lebowitz
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