The day could have been much, much worse

[rolanni]

There was an...Incident... on the grounds of the day-job early on Sunday morning. Security guards and students were involved. Worse, actual police were involved. People were arrested, force -- either too much or appropriate to the situation; opinions vary -- was used. Admin is being ...bewilderingly inept in its handling of it all. Today, the students decided that Admin's ineptness had devolved into a willful disinclination to hear anybody, not just the students, and called a Protest.

Ahem. I'm old enough to remember Kent State. Steve was an actual college student on an actual state college campus when Kent State happened, and the Administration of that college thought it would be a Fine Idea to bring a few trucks full of military personnel onto the campus in a show of force.

To say that I was a Little Nervous today might not do Complete Justice to my state of mind.

Happily, it all went off without a hitch, or at least with no stones being thrown or anything more threatening than a couple of news vans appearing on the horizon. Admin is still being bewildering inept -- and invisible when, IMNSHO, they should have been visible. Also, they are making some...very odd choices about who gets what information about which.

Still -- coulda been worse. I hope it soon gets better.

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Comments

[lagilman]

*sympathies* Recent collegiate follies down here have left many people wondering if all common sense has been shaken out of both student and administrative bodies....

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

The good news here is that students, administration, and general public tend to not see the kind of alternatives that we saw back then as part of their range of actions and reactions.

I was also on campus (Boulder, Co.) during that same period, and have shivery memories of a voice from a rooftop telling me to freeze and that they had orders to shoot people who were violating the curfew which apparently had been announced that day. Luckily, the young national guardsmen decided to let me walk across the yard and into my house instead of shooting.

Yeah, it could happen in America. But I think it is actually good that the youngsters believe it won't -- someone has to! That's progress.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw your Incident on evening news. And thought of you.

Kent State, yeah, I was in college then. We had some fun and games on our own campus. Want me to teach your students how to do a Protest right?

(Knew a couple of the original Weathermen . . .)

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Do to the follies of my particularly dysfunctional family when I was 16 (1970 was a very bad year) I don't remember Kent State: one of the few major events of that time I don't recollect.

However, I can understand your worries, and hope that everyone involved is able to resolve the situation productively.