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Perhaps the Faculty who signed this petition failed to realize the racist nature of "An End to Urban Violence." They should read the prospectus, which calls for course students to plan strategies for counter forces for use in Black communities in rebellion, to redesign "spatial relations" to make it harder to seek shelter and easier to move troops, to find a "critical mass" population density that might lead to violence, that sees "riots" as emotional outlets, and Black people as basically incapable of solving their own problems. And the results of these "intellectual investigations" were to be presented...
...original course syllabus only because of ideological differences. The syllabus indicated that the material taught in the course might directly endanger the lives of black people who, because they live in ghettos, could easily become involved in a "riot". The syllabus offered city planners a chance to study "the spatial relationships within and between buildings," so as "to determine their effects on the formation and control of riots...
...claimed that students taking the course would learn how to contain black rebellions in order to preserve property. The prospectus of the course suggests that city planners might "study the spatial relationships within and between buildings" in ghettos to determine "their effect on the formation and control of riots...
Howard T. Fisher, professor of City Planning and associate director of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, will be offering a course in the Spring term to explore the different possibilities for use of this technique. The course is open to all students in the Graduate School of Design...
...this by way of pointing out that Any collection of sounds, from the most banal to the most complex and abstract, is enhanced by the right environment, spatial and spiritual. Ordinary music can be transformed into transcendental music if the conditions for it are right, if its purpose is felt at any one instant to be compelling, if it takes the listener's thoughts and sense-perceptions and embodies them in sound. Any music can be good music depending on your mood and the objective circumstances you find yourself...