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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.P.O. San Francisco...
...bars at night for "rap" sessions that lasted well into the morning. In Chicago, we listened to Jesse Jackson, heir-apparent to leadership in Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In Cleveland's Hough ghetto, the group stayed with families in ghetto apartments. In San Francisco, a motel manager emptied enough rooms of prostitutes to crowd the group in-and got himself beaten up by their pimps in return. The pimps who stayed were anxious to talk, mostly about police abuse of their rights. Bill Buckley listened for a while before informing them that "there...
...most bristling receptions was at the headquarters of the San Francisco State College Black Student Union, where minds were closed even to angry give and take. "There are only two places the media people have been at," announced one of the hosts. "Racism and nowhere." That was as deep as that particular dialogue ever went. The meeting was of value only as a measure of the consuming bitterness of the extremists. The Oakland Black Panthers went even further, canceling their meeting at the last moment unless they were offered...
...idea. Those who see no difference between teachers and students in effect reject the intellectual hierarchy that is basic to learning. Teachers, after all, are supposed to know more than students. If both are "equal," the result is initially stimulating and ultimately numbing. Everyone goes his way-inward. At San Francisco State College, for example, the student committee that screens the shadow school's new courses has found itself dealing increasingly with "teachers" who cannot teach. Says Bill Talcott, a graduate student in English and a member of the committee: "We get a lot of people...
Caring for Egos. While most free universities are serious and constructive, the movement already has a silly, far-out fringe. Heliotrope, an independent free university in San Francisco, offers courses in body surfing, howling at the moon and "bofing," which is Heliotropese for fencing with Styrofoam foils. Santa Cruz Free University has a class entitled "Of Course We'll Like It," a forum that guarantees the uncritical acceptance of unpublished poems, unpurchased paintings and unaired songs. "Let's get together and take loving care of one another's ego," urges the course prospectus. It is hard...