[free-sklyarov] any New York action planned?

[Christopher R. Maden]

At 00:03 24-07-2001, mike castleman wrote:
>A friend of mine tells the following anecdote. I believe that it's
>basically true, though I've never tried to verify it and some of the
>details are probably off.
>
>Brown University in Providence, RI, US is famous for its essentially
>requirement-free curriculum. (i.e., you can take basically whatever
>courses you want, except of course for those courses needed for your
>major.) When the student who came up with this idea first had it, he
>decided he was going to have a rally every Friday to push for it. The
>first week he had it, only a few of his friends showed up. The next week,
>there were like 10 people there, and so on until the rally had grown to
>the point where thousands of people were showing up and the administration
>could no longer ignore them. Thus, the genesis of Brown's free-choice
>curriculum.

This is pretty much accurate.  The year was 1969, and the student was Ira 
"Clinton Health Plan" Magaziner.

-crism (Brown '94)
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