VLVL PR3 and "the Movement"

[Terrance]

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> > VL focuses on  a specific time period (1967-70) in the movement. It is
> > also focused on the Traveling Organizers of SDS (Frenesi's Film Crew)
> > and two Universities (Berkeley and Columbia, Berkeley and College of the
> > Surf).

> Columbia is mentioned once (208), as an exemplar for Rex of what College of the Surf and PR3 are *not* like.

Yes, we've covered this. 

"Innocent festivity ruled far into the night, not much by Berkeley or
Columbia standards, maybe, though Rex did manage to place Weed in what
looked like the emerging junta." VL. 208.21-24 

If there is no irony in the comparison why not some other schools, say
San Francisco State and Chicago University? Or NYU or Georgetown? Why,
from dozens of schools where uprising are taking place at this time, are
these two schools compared with the College of the Surf? 

SFSC, just picking an example at random here,  would make more sense if
the comparison is as simple as your reading it. Why wouldn't Rex 
compare the white bread conservative festive rebellion at College of the
Surf with with SFSC--  a  violent, bitter, protracted struggle, led by
the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front (Composed
of Latin American, Mexican, Philippine and Chinese students)?