Doesn't Stephen King have a short story about this?

Found this picture of said riot cops from my old phone:

Super interesting, thank you!

(Deleting the OP so as to not muddy the waters)

Ah, ok. I guess there's a difference between kinetic strikes and kinetic bombardment?

Yes, that certainly happens too.

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Yes, absolutely

In this space, faculty are very hard to mobilize, either because they're deeply precarious and overworked, or because they're self-image is so wrapped up with the institution they have difficulty seeing themselves as having their own interests that may be at odds with it.

Meanwhile, at UCSC, the administration bussed in phalanxes of riot cops from UC Berkley when students set up protests in support of striking faculty.

For instance, at SU they've gone to extreme measures to stop unionization efforts. Admin outlandishly argued in court that the NLRB did not apply to religious institutions after faculty voted in favor of joining SEIU.

seattlespectator.com/2018/01/17/b...

utterly palpable and chilling. When we tried to use faculty listservs, they immediately began limiting and censoring who could use those listservs. A student supporter was publicly belittled by *the president of the university.* It's such a hostile environment for building worker power.

And more broadly, I think this leads to an inability for the kind of longterm thinking that's required for building standards. Everyone is reeling from crisis to crisis and barely has time to get the basics done.

Decades of perpetual austerity thinking also needs to be undone. Every year there's the demand to bring enrollments up any way possible, often in ways that hurt standards (getting rid of prereqs, grade inflation, requiring faculty respond to individual negative evals, etc.).

The NFB has tons of her work and there are plenty of shorts to choose from, so this feels pretty manageable.

www.nfb.ca/directors/al...