That “bubble” that protects the academic staff and institutions at UW-Madison has proved in the past to be something on the order of the impenetrable transparent barrier as depicted in the TV series “Under the Dome”.
And like that dome, the “bubble” surrounding the UW grounds is resistant to any external forces, but within, it is a fevered competition for resources and settlement of petty quarrels by sometimes drastic means.
I was there as a non-academic employee for about four years back in the 1960’s, just as the campus revolutions were starting to ramp up. The community had always been a sort of closed shop, “progressives only”, and I fit in there like a square peg in a round hole, and the situation has only gotten much worse since then. I left before the bombings started, but I had come in contact with plenty of the students who could have be inclined to take that course of action. The worst part was, the persons who got bombed probably agreed in good measure with the objectives of the bombers themselves.
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>> “The worst part was, the persons who got bombed probably agreed in good measure with the objectives of the bombers themselves.” <<
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Gee! Sometimes one has to make a little sacrifice for what one believes in...
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