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To: LindyBill who wrote (93931)	1/5/2005 8:49:35 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 793743

...Our university faculties have a long history of bigotry. Simon has a post about anti-Semitism that is becoming more boring by the moment. Anti-Semitism is a virtual course at our major universities sponsored by administrators and faculty. The WSJ has an op-ed today about Duke. But it's also Stanford, Michigan, CAL-Berkeley (an actual quasi-Nazi hot bed) and the rest. Most of us can't remember, but have to read up on what things were like in 1940. Jews were not allowed at any Ivy School other than Princeton which had a quota system. Jews were banned from most university faculties other than University of Chicago.>> I was at the University of Alabama at various times from 1941 to 1949. No negroes, as one has heard, but plenty of Jewish descent of which I came to know about 7, with most being from NY or the East. There were Russian Jews, Italian Jews, Jewish Jews etc and there was no obvious discrimination Ones that were lawyers were a pain in the butt because they argued in the dorm till late at night and kept us engineers awake while we had to study math or make mechanical drawings. Those were the Italians,Mutt and Jeff, one being tall and blackhaired with green eyes, and the other very short Russian and German Jews were among my friends, more technically oriented, but alas they were not into hunting or fishing or dancing so much as this country boy is.However what counted most is that we were studying in the same field. Welchmen were great people. We had two of those. One had big headaches since he had once worked in a nitroglycerin plant but he found us a place we could get a full breakfast for 50 cents from a woman who just wanted to make contribution to the school in some way. The other was big handsome devil who went to a circus with us and came away with date with one of the stage dancers, and it was her idea. That was impressive. I even went down to a dance on the Cayuga riverbank one time. Amazing shack with 7 ft ceiling, everyone barefoot, girls all wore nothing but one garment- a loose dress. No waltzes, no square dancing, just kind of shuffle around with lots of feeling. This Yankee was so embarrassed I didn't even try to join the party. Everyone there had an accent except me, and a dead silence would have fallen if I said a word in Chicaqoese. But I digress, you were discussing discrimination and Jews.? Sig