VLVL College of the Surf and PR3
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 23 19:26:47 CST 2004
> Where does the narrator compare the violence at College of the Surf with
> Berkeley and Columbia? The paragraph at 208 where the comparison is made
> emanates from Rex's perspective, and the points of comparison between the
> formation of a student political organisation (ADHOC) at College of the Surf
> and "Berkeley and Columbia standards" are "innocent festivity" and "the
> emerging junta".
Rex is a *graduate* student, so he has certainly been on
> the scene since the early '60s, and he's making a comparison with the
> student revolts at Berkeley in 1964 (picketing of the Oakland _Tribune_ for
> racial discrimination, FSM sit-in in Dec., and the couple of years of campus
> unrest which followed) and at Columbia in 1968. Rex has nothing whatsoever
> to do with DL's arrival at Berkeley narrated earlier in the text (but I also
> think it's clear that DL has been with 24fps for a number of years prior to
> the College of the Surf incident.)
>
> I really think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one,
> Terrance.
>
Fine, but 1964 is never mentioned by Rex or anyone else in the text.
I never said Rex had anything to do with DL's arrival at Berkeley.
But she does arrive there well after 1964. In fact we know that the
informal slogan of the 24fps is Guevar's phrase (VL.202 bottom page) and
this date and the music help us date the events. And she goes there
looking for action and violence and she finds Frenesi filming a violent
confrontation between the students and the police force.
What date do you have for that confrontation at Berkeley?
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