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I READ THE SPRING 2019 “ Echoes of 1969 ” I REALLY ENJOYED the article about the issue of Triton magazine this past weekend . I thoroughly enjoyed reading every music at the Che were incomplete .
Che Café . However , the origins of live single article and detail in this issue .
According to your article , Mathew
The magazine covered compelling and fascinating subject matter that every current in 1985 . In reality , he either took it over ,
Rothenberg formed the Musicians Club
and past Triton student should know about . or resuscitated it . It was not 1985 , but I can ’ t believe how much history related 1982 , when live music came to the Che . to resistance , protesting and activism took
I vividly remember the day fellow student place right here in La Jolla on campus .
Phil Detchmendy ’ 84 and I went to the I ’ m sharing details about this issue and its Che to seek permission from the head of importance with my fellow alumni and staff the co-op to use the Che for a live music alumni friends . event featuring two student bands . Since the Che was mostly about food back then ,
Eric Johnson ’ 16 we pitched the fact that they could sell food
Marshall College at our events and more students would know about the Che and perhaps come
INDEED , ANGELA DAVIS is well known . back to eat during the week . That ’ s how we
Aside from the single sentence glossing got the buy-in for “ Thursdays at the Che ,” over her involvement in the Marin courthouse case , she had other associations which even with a $ 1 entry was successful beyond what we could have ever imagined . not mentioned . Her membership in the Thanks for bringing back the memories .
Communist Party , and her membership in Those were great days . the Black Panthers , for example . Reed Pederson ’ 85
She is referred to as a “ prominent thought
Revelle College leader ,” standing among “ luminaries ,” and “ mobilizing for social justice .”
Read the full comment with notes on bands of the times , like the NoNames , Amazons Yet , the record of the groups she associated with show no real social justice and others at tritonmag . com / chestories achievements at all . Just misery .
Anonymous ’ 02 Warren College
I ’ VE READ YOUR ARTICLES about the Che Café and Groundwork books . I was a member of the recycling cooperative in the mid- ’ 80s and often coordinated pick up of newsprint , glass , computer paper , telephone books , etc . At the time , recycling wasn ’ t as mainstream as it is today . On a few occasions we tried to engage the campus administration to include recycling as part of their overall waste management program , but we often received a lot of pushback . For example , during the construction of the Price Center we tried to get a cardboard compactor for the loading dock , but that was turned down . Cardboard is a significant part of the waste stream .
Work in the Recycling Co-op was a lot of manual labor done by students in their free time . However , to make up for the hard work , we often sponsored hiking and camping trips and environmental awareness activities . One nice benefit of being a co-op member was that during our weekly evening meetings at the Che Café , the members would receive a meal paid for by the proceeds from the sale of the recycling materials .
Howie Reese , PhD ’ 89
THE DAY GEORGE WINNE set himself on fire , we were in shock and talked of little else . At the hastily organized meeting that evening , with hundreds of other students , I hoped to learn more about George Winne but was horrified by speaker after speaker taking the stage to talk about the need to mobilize immediately and act while we had momentum and the nation ’ s attention — nothing about George Winne , his life or his sacrifice . I was relieved when , finally , Campus Minister Lesley Atkinson took the stage and implored the audience to remember George ’ s life and wait until after his certain death before using the tragedy to mobilize for political purposes . I ’ ve tried to remember Atkinson ’ s example of honoring those lost to tragedy before using them to advance our own agendas .
Randy Richardson ’ 72 Revelle College
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