VLVL Berkeley and Columbia

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Wed Jan 21 15:05:11 CST 2004


Terrance:

> Meanwhile, the kids are doing research. Not like the kids at Columbia at
> all they discover a real estate deal that's nothing like the one at
> Columbia. 

I get your point, and the sarcasm, but there are also big differences
between the Columbia U. students protesting against the plan to build a
university gymnasium in a public park in Harlem and the fact that College of
the Surf had been "an elaborate land developer's deal from the beginning",
and was scheduled to be closed down (209). Just about all of the campus
protests of the '60s followed a similar pattern: each had a dual agenda, one
a civil liberties issue and the other a complaint against the university
administration. 

> [...]
> And look who comes rolling into town right after the kids have painted
> the campus a paler shade of innocent white with a hint, just a hint of
> pink.  Why it's the Berkeley crew. Not like the Berkeley crew at
> Berkeley, not them.

Where is there a connection made in the text between 24fps and the protests
at Berkeley in 1964? What were the issues there?

best

> No, this is that band of camera wielding film
> makers, well ...  one photographer with a  Scoopic and her girlfriend, a
> pair of big mouth NY City Jews in army fatigues, a Black dude named
> Sledge, a surfer-looking pot head with pink eyes, a hippie that does
> star charts. 




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