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...entirely dependable, the fence around the University would be ludicrous. To a nation well versed in the loss of freedom, however, a wall to protect liberty of the mind seems natural. Venezuela's present republic must pay for the perfidy of earlier regimes. The autonomous university stands as a taunt to any government that makes the pretense of being a democracy. It is, in this way, antagonistic to democracy. But it is, in this same way, typically Venezuelan...
...came only after a party-line battle over Republican efforts to attach an amendment barring grants to segregated vocational training schools or programs. Democrats insisted that this was just a ruse, and two Democratic Negroes voted against the amendment. This led California's Republican Representative Charles Guber to taunt, after the amendment was defeated, "My count shows that 142 Republicans voted against discrimination and 185 Democrats voted for discrimination...
...entirely dependable, the fence around the University would be ludicrous. To a nation well versed in the loss of freedom, however, a wall to protect liberty of the mind seems natural. Venezuela's present republic must pay for the perfidy of earlier regimes. The autonomous university stands as a taunt to any government that makes the pretense of being a democracy. It is, in this way, antagonistic to democracy. But it is, in this same way, typically Venezuelan...
...Inngit Amicitia" (Friendship Ties Us Together). When a freshman complained because a plate of hot soup was poured over him, he was told to keep quiet or face "the Dachau treatment," in which upperclassmen shout, "Jews stand up!" (or "Negroes stand up!" or "Are there any Chinese here?"), then taunt the victims. "I lost my parents there during the war," protested the freshman, but he was ordered to go through with the game. An indignant parent wrote a letter to a Rotterdam newspaper describing the incident, and soon a torrent of mail on the excesses of hazing was pouring...
Before the riot ended, 20 were injured and 45 arrested. Streets were littered with thousands of dead baby chicks. They were a grisly Flemish taunt at the Walloons, whose symbol is a rooster. Said one journalist: "Nowadays we're supposed to get along with the French, we're supposed to love the Germans, and of course we are expected to embrace the British. All this unity is a strain. Every now and then, you have to let off steam with a little old-fashioned tribal enmity...