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...addition, some SDS members have complained that PL misrepresents real situations in order to make them fit their own explanations of them. Members of Columbia-Barnard SDS mention the ghetto uprising in Asbury Park, NJ., last summer as an example. The blacks in Asbury Park pressed a list of 22 demands on the city government, encompassing such issues as jobs, education, housing, judicial prejudice and day-to-day police harassment of blacks. According to Goldman, who went to Asbury Park as a PL organizer, the party chose to portray the rebellion exclusively as one of blacks fighting for jobs...
...NAOMI H. BARNARD...
Remember the winter of freshman year? One girl in Barnard did exercises every night, just after milk-and-cookies. One wandered from room to room, talking, always talking. One washed and dusted and vacuumed, and kept her margins even. And we all stood screaming in the corridors. Now one of those girls is married, one in a mental hospital, one working in New York; I swear to God I don't know which is which...
REMEMBER, remember, winter reading period of freshman year? It took me 15 hours to type a 10-page paper. My room in Barnard was slightly larger than my bathroom in Adams House, and I twisted felt flowers around the exposed pipes. Tried to hide the chipping ceiling with an enormous yellow sunflower. Disguised the radiator with Marimekko cloth. And by reading period none of it mattered; all was covered with papers and clothing and dust. And the dust was impossibly threatening...
...long walk, and one I make rarely. The only one screaming in my room is me. (My roommate just gurgles.) Our room is on eye-level with the Lampoon's Ibis: overlooking Mt. Auburn St., spring riots, winter snow. And last year even tear gas seeping in, and Barnard Hall seems ever more remote. Yet sometimes I remember...