[524] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
fun protests **at MIT**
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (asarahm)
Thu May 3 19:14:42 2001
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To: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 19:14:02 -0400
From: asarahm <asarahm@MIT.EDU>
someone mentioned the protest when the BLB cancelled PSK's skuffle a
few years ago.. but that has not been the only succesful or fun
protest on campus..
specifically, i'm thinking of the dot protest last year, which was
much fun and very succesful. the tool-in was fun, though not
succesful. the unified student response to the RSSC proposal,
and the ilg-talk (the mailing list that started it all!) response
to the 1997 chorover frosh-on-campus proposal were succesful,
but not fun.
mit breeds skeptics... in class after class i am told to pick apart
other people's scientific methods, and have mine torn apart as well.
we always ask "where's the proof?"... i don't know enough about
harvard to say whether or not this is true there either. maybe
we don't protest as much because we need proof, and yet we're taught
to always question anything given to us as proof...
some thoughts trying to bring this back to relevance to mit,
-asm
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Sarah McDougal
Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
asarahm@mit.edu
