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Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Senior Essay-Related Quote of the day:

In its effort to stabilize and defuse radical content in the surrounding
community, Yale follows a well directed community counter-insurgency program
under the direction of an ex -CIA operative. From the surrounding community,
Yale draws working people to serve as secretarial, janitorial and other menial
servants to the corporation. The power wielded by the corporation affects the
entire New Haven community. Yale is the largest employer in the city. It is
also the largest landholder in the city.
The university's domination of the New Haven community reveals only the tip
of the iceburg of Yale's national economic and social power. The university's
portfolio of investments includes some $600,000,000. The trustees of the Yale
Corporation represent directors of the most powerful corporations in America.
Yale alumni and their ruling-class mates form the managerial class which sets
policy for the multi-national corporations and the government which serves
them. What this means is Power... political-economic power over the lives of
the people of New Haven and the world.
Yale's role in the repression of the Black Panther Party and indictment of
the New Haven Nine can only be understood in terms of Yale's interest and
power. Likewise, the appearance of support given Bobby Seale by the
university administration can only be understood when Yale's role in the
community is exposed. Our analysis suggests that the interests represented by
Kingman Brewster, Chaplain Coffin and the host of other liberal Yale
mandarins, are directly threatened by the growth, if not the very ex istence
of the Black Panther Party. The reason is simple: Yale exercises its power
to control and exploit the local community... the Black Panther Party serves
the people and organizes them into a political force. Free Breakfast
programs, free medical clinics and community power make the people less
dependent on, and less subservient to, Yale. This is a threat to the
corporation.
The Yale managers must not only control the New Haven community; they must
also control the students. Because the Yale University-Corporation in in the
vanguard of liberal repression, it is not surprising that the public image
presented is one of rhet orical support for the strikes, demonstrations, etc.
So far these techniques have succeeded in defusing much of the radical
sentiment within the student body. The situation remains contained...though
unresolvable in their terms.

--From Go to School, Learn To Rule (See links.)

¶ 8:11 PM

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