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To: maceng2 who wrote (65551)	6/26/2005 9:23:21 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 74559

PearlyButton Re: "hard work" Maurice was making a comparison between engineering schools and "artsy-fartsy" schools. I was merely chiming in with my observations. The school I attended was about the most apolitical, "hard work" place you can imagine. When I started there were not any female students, not unusual for an engineering college back then. But even there I managed to get into mischief: I joined the campus SDS cell , a real underground communist front organization in which we had secret "code names" and plotted mayhem. Cell meeting were begun with a reading of Marx. A fellow cell member we called the "mad bomber" (and this was back in the mid 1960's) managed to attract the attention of the FBI due to the numerous pipe bombs he set off around campus and I can still remember the sight of him being led off across campus in handcuffs after he was finally caught. Some time not long after that I lost my intrest in left wing politics. <g> The "party school" comparison I made really had nothing much to do with politics. The main "party school" I had in mind sported Newt Gingrich as a history instructor so not all the faculty there were lefties. But many were, especially some departments. At that same college the sociology department and the journalism school were as red as the SDS cell I belonged to. Having been a member of the communist movement early in my college career by my junior and senior years I could surely spot a communist when I saw one, having been one myself. Slagle