Organization Kid

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>I have a suspicion it's who you talk to. I went to Tigertown between 
>1975 and 1979. There were students like the ones Brooks describes. 
>They were not the majority. Certainly the prevailing attitude at the 
>place is rule by divibe right. Outside of a small circle, few people 
>were interested in intellectual discussion out of class. However, 
>almost everybody was seriously into getting (a) drunk, (b) high, and 
>(c) laid, in the time honored tradition of college students. The 
>Woodiewoo (Woodrow Wilson School) crowd was alway super careerist. 
>--jks

David Brooks could have talked to kids in Princeton Workers' Rights 
Organizing Committee at <http://www.princeton.edu/~speac/>, to take 
just one example.  Princeton may not be as active as Berkeley, 
Harvard, Columbia, etc., but student activists are not non-existent 
there.

Yoshie