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Substance-free, but amusing: Emily Rowe, a candidate for student government president at the University of Western Ontario, has made a campaign video riffing on the Discovery Channel’s “Boom De Ya Da” promo.
It’s pretty well done. You can watch it below.
(In case you’re wondering, Rowe’s platform calls for establishing a university liquor store, installing more laptop outlets in public campus spaces, and composting dining hall food waste.)
Thanks to Joey Coleman for the heads-up.
Last August, Mother Jones magazine ran a spread on campus activism that included a timeline of “Student Activism Firsts.”
It was a fluff piece, obviously thrown together pretty quickly and without much interest in historical accuracy, and like many such pieces it treated student activism as something that began in the sixties. I took a few notes with the idea of putting up an annotated version of the timeline, pointing out some of the more obvious mistakes, but I never got around to finishing it.
As I was preparing the Hillary Clinton/Carry Nation story last month, though, I stumbled across something that really jumped out at me.
In the course of researching that post, I Googled temperance campus prank photo, trying to remember what campus the Carry Nation prank had taken place on. I didn’t find what I was looking for, but I did find this.
That’s the index of the Oberlin College Archives, and as I flipped through it looking for temperance materials, I stumbled across a reference to a folder titled “Temperance ‘Sit-in,’ 1882.”
Huh.
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