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I stumbled across two classic movies over at Hulu.com yesterday. Both are streamed in high-quality video for free at the site, and are available to watch anytime.
In the last few months it’s been hard to avoid hearing the name of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco activist and community organizer who became the nation’s first-ever openly gay elected official in 1978 — and was assassinated just eleven months later. The Gus Van Sant/Sean Penn biopic Milk has been getting well-deserved rave reviews since it opened in November. But Milk isn’t the first movie made about Harvey, and it may not be the best. The 1984 documentary The Times of Harvey Milk is an astounding achievement, and a great lesson in the history and practice of organizing. Check it out at Hulu if you haven’t seen it already.
The Marx Brothers’ 1932 Horse Feathers is history of a different kind. In it Groucho plays a university president, and the movie’s plot — such as it is — centers around corruption and gambling in college sports. College students were cultural icons in the 1920s and 1930s, and Horse Feathers gives a fascinating glimpse at how the university was perceived in popular culture at the time.
Earlier this fall, Tennessee State University became the first public university to block students’ access to the gossip website Juicy Campus.
Now comes word that Juicy Campus has reached out to the Tennessee chapter of the ACLU for assistance in bringing a lawsuit against TSU. The headline of this article notwithstanding, it does not appear that JC has yet filed suit. But we’re following this story, and we’ll pass on more news as we get it.
In other Juicy Campus news, the student government of Western Illinois University has passed a resolution calling on WIU’s administration to enact its own JC ban, with student government president Robert Dulski organizing for statewide action at a meeting of Illinois state student governments in February.
Meanwhile, in Ohio, Miami University’s panhellenic organization asked the state attorney general to take action against JC, while the Miami student newspaper editorialized against such a move.
The lead story on the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s news blog this morning is the destruction of two buildings at the Islamic University In Gaza by Israeli airstrikes.
Israeli bombing runs in Gaza are in their third day, and Israel charges that the university is a “research and development center for Hamas weapons.”
There were no casualties in the attack on the university, as it was evacuated at the start of the Israeli campaign. The two buildings destroyed housed science laboratories and women’s classrooms.
Meanwhile, Israeli media is reporting that competing protests opposing and supporting the Gaza airstrikes were held at the campuses of Hebrew University and Haifa University on Monday.
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