Class Year
2017
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
2-2-2017
Department 1
Center for Public Service
Abstract
OccupyPennHall failed.
Embittered by a failed election and its hateful aftermath, students parked themselves in protest. The act precluded and followed an irruption of a faculty meeting. Therein, sitting professors tuned into pleas for student-teacher solidarity. Protesters then took to the campus fulcrum and braced themselves for a sneak-peak of winter. The supposed movement was spur-of-the-moment: a visceral stillness in the wake of an absurd, precarious life. [excerpt]
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Clarke, Jerome, "This May Mean Doing Things a Bit Differently from Here on Out" (2017). SURGE. 309.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/surge/309
Comments
Surge is a student blog at Gettysburg College where systematic issues of justice matter. Posts are originally published at surgegettysburg.wordpress.com. Through stories and reflection, these blog entries relate personal experiences to larger issues of equity, demonstrating that -isms are structural problems, not actions defined by individual prejudice. We intend to popularize justice, helping each other to recognize our biases and unlearn the truths.