rgr-pop:

I’m really interested in campus history and the ways that memory is transmitted on campus. We’ve got four-year amnesia. I’m trying to find ways to address that—right now, I’m mining the women’s council archives and going to try to forge a working bibliography of radfem msu history.

There are lots…

“four-year amnesia”

YES this sort of thing became an obsession of mine when i was still at oberlin

especially wrt student-run communities and the way they/their images change over time and what information survives and how this impacts things like policy + problem solving in the co-ops (no institutional memory —> little to no record of how previous disputes and problems played out —> lots of completely pointless discussion and myopic college students thinking they’re the first people to discover an idea)

and, like, how does this affect the overall character of a college? admittedly this is more applicable to small schools but how are students going to react to change when they can’t even see it happening?

every institution needs its lorites. (hell yeah lame neal stephenson reference)

also, back to the original post, it’s so damn interesting how UNCOMPROMISING all those people you mentioned were

i wonder if that’s a tendency that isn’t so present in most campus activism (certainly feminist activism!) nowadays or if that’s just some confirmation bias talking