The University of Louisville
joined the national teach-in last October with an afternoon and evening teach-in
Wednesday, October 18 on the war and the Middle East. We brought together
faculty at Louisville and Cincinnati to talk about the issues behind the war,
particularly oil, resources and development. We also added a session on the war
in Lebanon.
Due to a mixup in who was doing
what publicity we did not get the kind of turn out we had hoped. We had about
40 participants in the teach-in. The students were particularly interested in
continuing activity.
Louisville has an active anti-war
committee that regularly does demonstrations, vigils, etc. As a commuter school
most of our students tend to be involved in these activities that are
community-based rather than university-based. Our hope is to use the university
as a source for information but for the focus of activism to continue to be in
the larger community.
As the war escalates we hope
to increase our activity perhaps with a spring teach-in linked to a larger
community project.
John Cumbler, cumbler@louisville.edu
History
Department