A Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protest. “But this recent protest is different. These students will never inspire change. Fifty years from now, we will definitely not pretend that we agreed with them the whole time.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-the-recent-student-protest
A Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protest

Dear members of the University community, The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for ...

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@kottke the end paragraph is gold… well, all of it, really.

@kottke Did you ever see the At Berkeley movie? it was a really good series of images from a year on campus at Berkeley, the year that students occupied Wheeler Hall. We got a snippet of an admin meeting, in which the admins basically said exactly this.

'Yes, I know we occupied buildings the Free Speech Movement, which is comemorated on campus by a cafe literally called the Free Speech Movement Cafe, but kids these days are different. They don't know how to occupy a building right.'