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When I first got to Northwestern, I taught for one quarter in the spring of 1977.

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Then I was offered a job teaching for the next year.

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They got in the money, they got in the line in the budget to teach for a whole year.

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So what I did at that point, there was a meeting in which they tried to decide what I was going to teach, what they would have me teach.

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And I remember it was a dinner with Patty Winell, the head of the film division, and then Stuart Kaminsky sent a memo.

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That was typical of Stuart. He didn't go to evening meetings.

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And Jack Ellis showed up after dinner. Dana Hodgson was there for some of it.

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And Patty started everybody drinking. And it was real clear that the intention was to get really drunk.

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It was this real male event after dinner.

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And Patty really went after Jack Ellis and humiliated him in front of me.

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And I really felt like I was being presented as the new gun in town.

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I was right out of a Western and I couldn't figure it out.

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It was like I was so shook up at how shitty these human relationships were in this department that I was thinking,

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shit, I really would like to have this job for a year, but at the same time, how could I possibly work in a place like this?

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And the next day I flew out to California and people who know me, who met me out there, say I was really shook up for about two or three days.

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And I was really thinking about not taking the job.

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I thought, how could I possibly work in an environment where people treated each other so badly?

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It was really vicious and unpleasant.

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And it hasn't changed that much sometimes.

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Okay, well at this faculty meeting on Friday, this is the one where they said that they wouldn't hire Julia.

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They said that even though she was the best person for the job, that...

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And they really liked her.

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And they liked her.

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They said they all said that they loved Julia.

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But they said that they wouldn't hire her at Northwestern because it was intolerable to have three feminists on the faculty or three Marxists on the faculty.

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But they can have three pigs on the faculty.

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Oh, that pigs don't count.

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They're in the majority.

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That was their total reason for not hiring.

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Yeah, oh, they said that they...

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Didn't want a couple.

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They didn't want a couple.

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But that was ridiculous.

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I mean, they already have a couple on the faculty.

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And then they said that...

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I mean, they said that she was the best scholar and she was the best teacher.

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She was best all around.

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But they just couldn't have another radical on the faculty.

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It would just be too best.

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The other feminists.

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They're afraid of what people might think.

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Well, I think that...

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See, what happened was that the students, there were two student votes and they voted for Julia.

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And Michelle voted for Julia and I voted for Julia.

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And then the people that were left, there were three votes.

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There were four votes for and three against.

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But the three against are the tenured faculty.

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And they're the ones who have the most...

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The three daddies.

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The three old farts, basically.

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With three little pigs.

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And one of them said that all the trouble with the women making a lot of fuss over sexism had started when we got there.

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That his piggy attitude had nothing to do with it at all.

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The feminists made the sexism.

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There wouldn't be any trouble if you people hadn't started it.

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Well, I think he's concerned that their reputation is going downhill and he doesn't want to have more radicals come in and destroy their reputation.

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He doesn't want to change.

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The candidates are going to come in.

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They're not going to be a feminist or a Marxist.

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They're going to be something else.

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They said they couldn't have a feminist or a Marxist.

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That's what the chairman of the department said.

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He had said all along, we have to find the best guy for the job, right?

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Well, I mean, he literally meant that.

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He'll only hire a man.

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He'll only hire one of his buddies.

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The best old boy.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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You know, we don't want to quote a system for women because we want to choose the best possible candidate.

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So if the woman is the best possible candidate, then we would choose her.

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But we don't want to quote a system for women or for blacks.

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So they got this round.

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They got this round.

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They got me.

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I'm the best possible candidate.

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And all of a sudden they don't want that system either.

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In other words, they don't want to say they have to have a quota system because they have to hire women.

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But when they get a woman and they admit that she's the best possible candidate, then they don't want a feminist.

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I mean, you know, it's like the whole thing was a lie from the beginning.

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Well, that's what it feels like.

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I mean, it's like this guy said, we'll hire the best possible guy and then we'll shake the department around what he can bring to the department.

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Well, that clearly was a fantasy there.

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I mean, you know, well, it wasn't a fantasy.

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He didn't intend to hire a guy.

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But the fact that they would cater to whoever came in, what they could bring to the department, that was a fantasy.

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I mean, that person didn't have to have certain specific qualifications.

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No, no, they were just going to hire the best possible person.

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The best guy.

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The best according to what?

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Well, that's according to the chairman.

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I'm the best by whatever what they had.

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I mean, they all had to admit that by whatever standards they could possibly apply.

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The average.

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Yeah.

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But then the standards, they couldn't go by that.

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They couldn't take the best anymore.

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Not the best they don't want because it's radical.

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What if you told them you would renounce your release and have a sex change operation and then would they hire you?

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Are you just done?

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I'm just done.

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Who would want a penis?

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I mean, that was conditioned.

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What?

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Who would want a penis?

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Is he going to see a picture of my mother?

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Sure.

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Is he going to hear it or is he going to see it?

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We'll see.

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But I mean, the thing is, it's like this incredible catch-22 for me.

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I mean, because it's like this one guy's wife made a movie about how Jews couldn't get into universities in Russia.

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And he does the same trick on me.

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I mean, the Jew always faces a trick exam when they come up for entrance exams or they don't get promotions.

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You know, and he.

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He changed the rules on them.

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And that's why all these Jews came to Chicago.

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All these professional Jews came to Chicago for that reason.

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So now this guy's doing the same thing to me.

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In other words, I'm like the Jew and he's like the Russian only he doesn't realize that that change has taken place.

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You know what this reminds me of?

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Remember that conversation?

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What does it say, Lynn?

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Lassage said her Marxist political beliefs overshadowed who I am as a person in the minds of the tenured faculty.

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What do you think of that?

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It's absolutely true.

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When a woman is turned down because of her feminism, her Marxism, and her relationship with another person in the department, what can we say but blatant sexism?

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It's repression of the intellect.

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Fairly powerful positions are down.

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Don't you think so?

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Yes.

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OK.

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Well, my theory is that inequality is not going to work.

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That affirmative action is not going to work because that women basically are smarter than men.

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And that the only reason the men run the world is because they realize that they can say we're so dumb.

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They were going to have to totally control everything or the women would not tolerate them at all.

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And probably they'd be extinct by now.

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So the men decided that they would just keep control over everything.

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Now if they let a woman have equal rights, the woman is obviously going to just become the head of everything because she's smarter and she can do more.

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And if it was based on how much you can do and how much you know, then the women would be running it.

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So that's why the men have to keep the women out of it completely.

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You have a very low opinion of men, don't you?

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It's not in the paper.

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It's the true fact.

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I can't help it.

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Don't you think there are intelligent men also?

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Not the ones who run it.

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Oh no, them no. But do you think that's sexual? I think it's a mistake.

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I think that, no, I think that men are dumber than women.

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I think that dumb men are more powerful than dumb women. Dumb women just kind of keep quiet.

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Dumb men talk more to make up for being dumb. They want to be in control. And since they're dumb...

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You're saying that since the intelligent people should control them...

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No, I'm just not... How lucky can I say? What should the world be like? I don't know the answers to these questions.

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What about filmmakers?

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Filmmakers are assholes.

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Male filmmakers.

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Male filmmakers.

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Don't you think that there are some intelligent men that pull out of the studio?

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These women.

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Yeah, sure, they're intelligent men.

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You know, they're given the chance.

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There's not as many as there are intelligent men.

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I know what it's like. The intelligent men play along with the dumb men and allow the dumb men to do what they do.

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Yeah, well, in the name of the intelligent...

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No, they're intelligent. They know what side of the bread their butter's on. You know?

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What's your favorite part of the film?

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When I first got to Northwestern, when I first started teaching there...

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I heard from one of the students that every day after my... at the end of my film theory class...

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that one of the students in that class went up and talked to another faculty member...

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and gave a report on everything that I had said in the film theory class.

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It was just that kind of suspicion and gossiping and going around behind people's back in the place.

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I'm Donnell. I like to ride bikes.

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Characteristic of Northwestern, affluent, very affluent. That sums it up right there.

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Hi, I'm Vicki Pomerance. I'm a junior, radio, TV, film major.

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I've noticed a lot about Northwestern students that they're very competitive, especially in tech and CAS...

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because they all want to get into law school and they're all trying hard for those 4.0 averages. That's about it.

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Fred Barney Taylor, filmmaker in New York City.

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Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, 1966-1970.

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1966, the big political issue on campus was parietal hours.

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Could women visit you in your dormitory room?

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After much political arguing, the decision was yes.

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Dewey Graham, the son of Otto Graham, responded by setting off firecrackers in any male's room...

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and had a woman visiting them.

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In 1967, nothing happened at all.

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In 1968, Bruce Daniels, not his real name, wrote, fuck you, on the Deering Meadow in front of the library...

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using chairs that were set out for the ROTC maneuvers.

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He was expelled from school. A year later, he was in the Weather Underground.

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In 1969, Chuck Jones asked Jack Scissors and principal of advertising...

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What was so good about Hertz and Avis each spending $18 million so they could outdo each other on their advertising campaign?

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Why didn't they just get together and have one car company that would serve all the people at cheaper rates?

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Chuck Jones dropped out of journalism school.

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In 1970, after the incursion of Cambodia, the students rioted.

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Tearing down the fence you see behind me now, they barricaded Sheridan Road.

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A man finally broke through in a 1965 Dodge, totally demolishing his car, but he broke the barricade after two days.

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Why don't you stop?

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Four, three, two, one.

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My name is Michael Marcus. I'm a professor of mathematics at Northwestern University.

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I've been there for 14 years.

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When I arrived in 1967, there was an active SDS movement on campus, about 70 people,

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four or five supportive faculty and two of us who were very strongly involved.

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We had an extremely effective anti-war group at Northwestern.

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By 1969, perhaps we had as many as 200 people at weekly meetings, but our activities existed every day.

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We were responsible for having ROTC moved off campus.

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For a time, the student movement inspired the faculty to abode our no credit for ROTC,

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which was tantamount to having it removed.

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It only lasted for two years, but it was an effective action.

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The military presence on campus, the indifference of the university administration to the war,

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the unwillingness of the university to oppose the war, all these things were attacked and attacked very effectively.

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I say this because it seems that there's a conception that Northwestern is only a middle class institution.

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Many students feel that they are different, but that student body as a whole is only concerned with going into business and making a lot of money.

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But it's not true.

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The anti-war movement at Northwestern was more effective than any other place in the Illinois area.

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The demonstration of tearing down the picket fences and barricading Sheridan Road in the strike of 90% of the student body

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and a good number of the faculty, that did not come out of the blue.

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It came from careful organizing, and there was an effective, consistent left movement,

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which lasted at Northwestern as long as it lasted at any of the other universities.

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Now it seems that there is no political activity. In fact, there isn't any political activity.

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But I think that the middle class university is sort of a tinderbox,

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that there's a very uneasy alliance between middle class children and their parents.

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My name is Steve Bliss. I'm a senior in the film department.

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Every Northwestern student here has more money than I do.

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Three, two, one.

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Okay. My name is Suzy Daw, and I'm a graduate student in the film department.

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And I would characterize Northwestern students as being very clan-ish.

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They sort of like stick to their little priorities and fraternities. If you don't belong to that, you don't fit in.

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They also dress better than I do, and pretty rich for the most part.

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And most of them I don't like, and that's all.

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Northwestern students are hard-working, industrious, bright, and they don't have very much money.

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Now if you believe that, I got a beautiful bridge to sell you. That's it.

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What's your name?

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Tom Snyder. Come student. Graduate.

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Forgot to say that.

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My name's Doug Heil, Northwestern grad student here.

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I object to the fact that I'm being condescended towards by the camera.

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And Northwestern students, well there's not a lot to say about them.

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It is an ivory tower, and most of us are very complacent in our ivory tower.

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The education is comfortable, and it's better here than in the working world.

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I believe in free education, sex, all that you can have at a university.

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Sometimes it's harder to get elsewhere.

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And that's all I have to say right now. Thank you.

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I'm Roy Wood. I'm the dean of the School of Speech, and I think Northwestern students are terrific.

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The only problem is they're very passive people, and they don't tend to want to get involved in anything.

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Just look at these three up here, for instance.

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Now if you'll put your hands over your eyes, and yours over your ears, and yours over your mouth,

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there you see three typical Northwestern students.

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Aren't they gorgeous?

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Monica Foy. I'm a Northwestern student myself, and what I think about Northwestern students is that

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they're very diverse, and most of them are just very strange.