#776 World Party- Rebecca Lee
On a college campus is a group called Harvest. They are a progressive group that learns about social movements, civil disobedience and as many college students do, put that learning to practice. During a recent hunger strike, a student was taken to the hospital and the activities of the group have come under question. The faculty advisor in particular is the focus of the attention. Some see him as a well-meaning academic, and others feel he deserves all the blame.
“I think you’ll find that he’s the devil. Like, the real devil. Using young people’s passions against them, and for his own purposes.”
The advisor must appear before the faculty hearings committee where the narrator sits on a three professor panel. “If a faculty member ever did anything suspect—threatened the dean with a gun, gave their classes all A’s, denied the holocaust—it was referred to us, the most unskilled tribunal ever assembled.”
The deciding vote lies in the narrator’s hands. While she is deciding she attends her son’s World Party, a Quaker alternative to Halloween. The event has the children promoting the things and people of the world they have learned in class.
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