Re: [Marxism] Sharpening Up

["Hunter Gray" <hunterbadbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Friedman asks:

Do you have a sense of why ISU staff is so timid? Is it a highly dictatorial 
school? And why are there no student groups who would act?


Hunter's response:

ISU is like many state colleges and universities in the vast "hinterland" [as 
well as some elsewhere in the United States] in the years since Reagan's 
ascendancy:  highly political administrations which are extremely sensitive to 
statehouse pressures -- including funding; job-scared faculty and staff: mostly 
cautious students including many older than average students who don't wish an 
iota of involvement; a relatively conservative community setting.

In the case of places like ISU, all of this is presently exaggerated.  ISU had 
for years -- he was here when we arrived and remained so until a couple of 
years ago -- an openly authoritarian president.  His replacement is changing 
little of that.

Things will change.

H.


HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk
Protected by Na´shdo´i´ba´i´
and Ohkwari'

Check out our Hunterbear website Directory http://hunterbear.org/directory.htm
[The site is dedicated to our one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm

For a good feel for some of the civil liberties challenges faced by an effective
organizer, see this cluster of four related pages:
http://hunterbear.org/a_bizarre__1979_fbi_smear_effort.htm

And see Hunter's Movement Life Interview:
http://hunterbear.org/HUNTER%20BEAR%20INTERVIEW%20CRMV.htm
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