Self-fulfilling
October 17th, 2006
Steve blogs about the Department for Education asking universities to pass on information about extremist students to Special Branch. Steve notes that this won’t work because most lecturers don’t bother to learn students’ names. I think it’ll work for the extremists – what better way to make people feel like outsiders than by saying they’re being monitored, informed-upon? I don’t recall the government asking this for Irish students in the 70’s and 80’s, nor for left-wing students in the 60’s. Maybe the government should just go the last step and rename the Home Office the “Ministry of Love“.
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1. sheep | January 17th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Well the reallly irrirateing students you do get to know the name of quite quickly. As for your core point – well if you had read
Warwick University Ltd by E P Thompson you will read about the events at Warwick when the students occupied the adminstration building. They found huge numbers of files kept on individual students listing out (apprent) subsersive activities. Outraged the students photocopied them and called in EPT, big stink at the time.
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