Re: Expandable clay

SBC Yahoo wrote:

Liberalism ain't what it used to be

society), but their economic and general political ideals, untouched by religion's influence, are more suitable to my liking. Those engaged in academia, generally tend to be very open minded and hence are generally branded as a liberal, but in science anyway, one has to have an open mind to make progress, otherwise one would keep repeating the mistakes of the past. When attending the universities, I actually was more comfortable discussing matters with the faculty than the students, since all the students wanted to do was drink and , well, you can guess what their other primary objective was. Most appeared to have little interest in applying themselves to actually understanding the subjects they were there to study.


When I was at IBM Boulder several egineers with BS's were working on MS's. They commuted to Denver rather than U of Boulder. Hard science majors were required to take 'Liberal Arts'. I did too, at U of S Fla.
But at Boulder this included REQUIRED attendance at the faculties scheduled protests, with attendance recorded. And they could not make their own protest signs, but had to use the faculty provided ones.
Resident students were 'expected' to register as voters, and discuss in class their support for the liberal line.

At U of S Florida, Tampa, they mixed the Sci's and Lib's to broaden each others viewpoints. No faculty (that I saw or heard of) imposing any activity outside of class.

This was the late 60's. Protest time. One month we heard the radicals were upset we were not protesting and shutting down classes instead of working on an education. They were organizing a sit-in to block our building and classrooms. The Civil E's started wearing their field boots to class, vets like me dug old combat boots from the closet. Word went back any sitters blocking access should expect to get tromped over and e-j-e-c-t-e-d. No one showed. My wife was seriously annoyed with me.

One radical picketing the President's office looked so pathetic I was tempted to buy her a cake of soap and a comb. As graduation approached and job interviews began - there was the dismaying realization that there was little interest in hiring an unwashed sloppy Arts or Humanities grad. Suddenly there were a number of obviously scrubbed students uncomfortably wearing brand new dresses and suits.

Ahh , them war tha daze.

Jim Lillie BSE, MSE (EE) 1 & 0

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