Crisis and Confusion

student in class:

"He was having a mid-life crisis but didn't know what to do"

Hard to argue with that. I mean, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a crisis, would it?

Students & Administration Meet

For the full video experience:


http://www.archive.org/details/HampshireCollegeEmergencyOpenForumOnAshadmissionMovement


Audio of conversation with Admissions interns there, too.

Students try to track down administrators

Students try to crash an administration meeting about changes to buildings and programs—but can't find it.

Here, they wait patiently in Franklin Patterson Hall in the early afternoon.




Eventually,they went to the main administration building and secured a promise of a public meeting at 4:00 p.m. Video coverage of that in a subsequent post.

Communist anti-capitalism

from a student paper:

"The Soviets . . . tried to build authoritarian rule based on the principle that they were protecting these post war countries from the imminent threat of capitalism. Their purge trials would weed out the traders and execute them."

Well, that's one way to solve an economic problem, I guess.

Day 2: Hampshire College STOP THE PLAN, MAN!

Day 2 of the protest:




The (presumed) final action will take place at noon today.

Hampshire College STOP THE PLAN, MAN! protest

Here is day 1 of the protest:

Radical Student Movement

from an announcement of a massive student-faculty protest against proposed changes to the use and configuration of a campus building.

Naturally, there is the typical organizing work to do: draft petitions, draw up demands, form committees—in that order. Hmmm. It would seem a lot more sensible to figure out what your demands are before you draft the petitions (hasn't always happened that way around here, believe it or not), but that may just be my atavistic logocentric, linear thinking at work. Or maybe those items were listed in random rather than chronological order.

Anyway: After that, there's . . . dancing:

"~organizing a samba parade, starting on the library lawn and ending at ASH at 4
pm on Tuesday, to raise awareness, share information, and distribute petitions"