3. The Aftermath:
Analysis and Restrospective (pp 3.1-3.5)
Five Activists Look Back on the Events of 1970 (pp 3.6-9)
The Causes of Conflict in Isla Vista: UCSB's viewpoint
(p. 3.10)
The Lessons of Isla Vista: Bank of America's viewpoint
(pp. 3.11-12)
The Trow Report: UCSB's Responsibilities to Isla Vista
(pp. 3.13-18)
Analysis and Restrospective
Sociology
Professor Richard Flacks has taught at UCSB since 1969. One of
his specialties is the "youth culture" of the 1960s
and 1970s, of which Isla Vista is a famous example. In his Social
Movements class, he always shows the movie "Don't Bank
on Amerika," a history of the civil disturbances in Isla
Vista during the spring of 1970. He also often puts together a
panel discussion among people who were involved in those 1970
activities.
Flacks recently completed a book with Jack Whalen entitled Echoes
of Rebellion based on recent interviews with Isla Vistans
who were there in 1970. The Temple University Press published
the book in 1989; the University of California Press declined
to print it.
This interview by Carmen Lodise was first published in the Isla
Vista Free Press in 1988.
FREE PRESS: What I remember most from one of those panel discussions I attended was the statement by several of the panelists that in I.V. in 1970, that everyone felt that all of the issues were related. That is, if your landlord screwed you over, it reinforced your opposition to the Vietnam War or your anger with your parents. Could you explain this further for us?
FLACKS: If you think, as most of the activists did, that we live
in a "system" and it's a unified system of domination,
then what happened to you with your landlord in I.V. or with the
police in I.V. was akin to what was happening in Vietnam, etc.
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