King's College London

I can vouch that Sam is A-OK

I consolidated my abject hatred of students when I went to Kings. Biological Sciences 1999. Now a fatass Property Developer in France
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I do love Wikipedia, dont you?

Hi Sam, I emailed you off-list, but haven't heard 'owt yet!

Sam: find below one more failure to say everything UCL Students Against Students want to say about ourselves and the world. There are various other failures which I'd be happy to pass along if you're interested: taken together they might begin to constitute a clear picture. Otherwise, we have drinks every Wednesday night, 8-ish at The Crown, New Oxford Street. PM me for my number if you want to pop along.

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"hi,

I just found a leaflet with this email adress in my jacket pocket. I dont
remember where I picket it up but I was just wondering what exacly 'students
against students' is.

thanks, Andrew"

"Andrew,

Students Against Students is more than anything a challenge: to students, to the world, to itself. It names itself (in a hopeless, ironic contradiction) as a desperate feeling of loneliness in the academy (confronted by academic disciplines we know to be distorted, strange, which we learn to live with or reject in a pathetic frenzy of alcohol and late mornings): that is as an opposition to its own condition without the power to abolish itself.

It is uncertain, misfitted, off balance - it has a pressing anxiety in its engagement not only with the university but with the whole world. We stand as students because that's who we are: but that we were otherwise, although we would probably still find things to complain about.

More concretely, we are a group of friends who, feeling this alienation, see it as a product of a more general movement in the university, that of capital. And that movement manifests itself elsewhere: in the attack on lecturer's pay, in the outsourcing of cleaners and caterers, in the funding of post-graduate research etc. All of these attacks are against different sectors but for us the fightback must cross sectors: all of us despite our different grievances must recognise our common enemy and fight back.

Students Against Students is not yet much at all, but it seeks to initiate, be the kernel of:

in the first place, the regroupment of students alienated from the modern academy, from their academic disciplines, in their jobs on the side, against department closures, against the direction of science research towards weaponry etc;

in the second place the redirection of all of those partial concerns towards one overbearing concern, that of capitalist value (profit/state interest) in the academy;

in the third place, the constitution of many different such communities, across the many sectors presently under attack: cleaners (outsourcing, Justice for Cleaners), lecturers (45% consider quitting because 2/3rds of their job is paperwork), Research students (recent, profoundly reactionary changes in research funding) and so on.

Too long, too wordy: I'm drunk. If you care enough to write back I'll probably be more sober and make more sense. Thanks for writing."