Radical Campus--or haunted house on the hill?(Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University)(Book review)

Canadian Dimension, March, 2006 by Briemberg, Mordecai

Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University

by Hugh Johnson

Douglas & McIntyre, 2005

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This is an in-house account by a 37-year loyal history professor, tying up all the loose threads into one happy ending for the 40th anniversary of the founding of Simon Fraser University. It is a short story, really. The bright threads appear in the initial four-to-five-year period, but, by 1970, with the defeat of the series of radical challenges of those first years, SFU is already draped in the bleached, drab garment it wears today.

This volume appears to bookmark an effort to declare full recovery from the "traumas" of the early years, a demonstration of the survivors' capacity publicly to recount their...

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