Comments on: The Student Movement: Choosing Sides http://www.jonathandettman.net/the-student-movement-choosing-sides Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:17:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dettman http://www.jonathandettman.net/the-student-movement-choosing-sides#comment-3 dettman Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:24:51 +0000 http://www.jonathandettman.com/?p=291#comment-3 No doubt an entire article, if not a book, could be devoted to the administration's rhetoric of dismissal, deflection and, lately, exaggeration. They are in the PR business, but students are learning fast. No doubt an entire article, if not a book, could be devoted to the administration’s rhetoric of dismissal, deflection and, lately, exaggeration. They are in the PR business, but students are learning fast.

]]> By: d http://www.jonathandettman.net/the-student-movement-choosing-sides#comment-2 d Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:41:23 +0000 http://www.jonathandettman.com/?p=291#comment-2 <em>Every protest action has been met with police presence, persecution or arrests</em> don't forget about cooptation. e.g., birgeneau's <a>statement</a> from the day after the september 24 walkout: "We would like to express our appreciation to our campus community . . . for the orderly, peaceful and effective way in which the September 24th budget protest actions were held on and around campus. . . . Your actions have sent a clear and important message to our legislators and to the California public that the State's disinvestment in public higher education must stop." or the UCB administration's move to reopen libraries on the weekends just after the <a href="http://www.ucsolidarity.org/content/study-anthropology-library" rel="nofollow">study-in</a> at the <a href="http://reclaimuc.blogspot.com/2009/10/media-coverage-of-study-in-oct-9-10.html" rel="nofollow">anthropology library</a>. vice chancellor harry le grand had this to say: "This decision was made in consultation with Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer, who secured funding for the expanded service hours through gifts from parents of UC Berkeley students. . . . I am grateful to the donors, the Chancellor and Provost, for their efforts." to them, it's all about them. as long as they can maintain the sacramento-bad/UC-good story, they think they'll be okay. Every protest action has been met with police presence, persecution or arrests

don’t forget about cooptation. e.g., birgeneau’s statement from the day after the september 24 walkout: “We would like to express our appreciation to our campus community . . . for the orderly, peaceful and effective way in which the September 24th budget protest actions were held on and around campus. . . . Your actions have sent a clear and important message to our legislators and to the California public that the State’s disinvestment in public higher education must stop.” or the UCB administration’s move to reopen libraries on the weekends just after the study-in at the anthropology library. vice chancellor harry le grand had this to say: “This decision was made in consultation with Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer, who secured funding for the expanded service hours through gifts from parents of UC Berkeley students. . . . I am grateful to the donors, the Chancellor and Provost, for their efforts.” to them, it’s all about them. as long as they can maintain the sacramento-bad/UC-good story, they think they’ll be okay.

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