Sirena wrote:
I really believe that as a progressive faculty body, we should go beyond
chanting in front of the ROTC building this time. Since when does a college
faculty have to explain her teaching methodology to a military person on
campus???!!!! This needs to go directly to the administration, and I suggest a
collective pre-emptive strike, before they continue harrassing Edie.
Should we set up a brainstorming session on how to proceed?
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From: david klein
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Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 2:27 PM
Subject: [csunupj] ROTC counterattack at CSUN
Alan Glasband wrote:
Edie,
thanks for carrying the torch. It's nice to know that the PROTEST movement we
started a few years ago on CSUN's campus is not completely dead!! Keep it up!!!
peace
Alan
There is a need for some help on this. Colonel Buck has filed a formal
complaint against Edie with the administration. She has already started to
get phone calls from administrators asking for information and justification of
the project.
The project in a nutshell was for her art students to convert war toys (in this
case toy army soldiers) into peaceful creatures. Some students changed the
soldiers into firemen and their rifles into water hoses. Others were magical
creatures, butterflies, movie characters, animals, dancers, chefs, etc. The
students included dwellings for their transformed creatures to live in. The
project reflects part of the mission statement of CSUN, "...to help students
develop ... critical and creative abilities, and ethical values of learned
persons who live in a democratic society, an interdependent world..."
Colonel Buck took great offense at the placement of the ankle-high art
installations around the ROTC building. He interrogated Edie and demanded to
know how she ran her course, whether students were coerced to participate in
this art projects that expresses a universal human value of love of peace,
rather than lust for war.
He suggested that the art installations be placed "around the Chicano Studies
building, or some other department." The Colonel expressed fear that the
morale of his ROTC students at CSUN might be adversely affected by artistic
_expression of a culture of peaceful coexistence rather than the glamor of war.
Col. Buck was particularly worried that the art pieces would still be near his
building this coming Monday and Tuesday because his ROTC students would then
mostly likely see them and presumably then be discouraged from engaging in the
mass murder that U.S. wars of aggression demand.
Consequencies to Edie remain unresolved, but there is an opportunity for others
to show up sometime on Monday or Tuesday (e.g. to sing song have seditious
peace messages, or students chanting "Hell no, we won't go," etc.).
A question I would like to ask Col. Buck, if I get to see him, is why he
doesn't go to Iraq himself instead of trying to convince young men and women at
CSUN to do it. If he is so gung -ho on murdering men, women, and children in
Iraq, he should sign up for active duty and leave CSUN and UCLA alone.
Instead, he wants to wage war against a CSUN art professor who dares to
challenge a culture of war in the form of transformed children's toys.
One more thing. One of the ROTC cadets saw spoke to Edie and said he didn't
want to go to Iraq. Without naming the cadet, Edie told CSUN's Colonel in
residence that one of his cadets doesn't want to go to Iraq. The Colonel
demanded to know which one, and Edie of course refused to snitch.
I think that we really need to step up the pressure against CSUN's ROTC. There
must be a lot of creative forms of protest we could come up with. Who knows,
maybe Colonel Buck, sorrounded by converted toy soldiers and protesters, will
leave the campus in horror at the aggressive peace offensive. We're a long way
from the Viet Nam protest days when students would have splattered blood on the
ROTC building as a first step.
DK
"Be the change you would like to see in the world..." - Gandhi
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