Author: [log in to unmask] Date: 12/16/94 10:40 AM [Editor's note: This message was submitted to SCREEN-L by the "Author" noted above, and not by Jeremy Butler ([log in to unmask]).] Gloria Monti writes: "I was thinking about this just the other day, wile reading a piece on the anniversary of the Berkeley uprising. How can one still believe the dictum, once they *are* over thirty?" James Simon Kunen (and whatever happened to *him*?) wrote in THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT, an often humorous account of the Columbia uprising, "I believe in the statment, 'Don't trust anyone over thirty, but think they should remove the zero." As to suicides of the great theorists, I suspect the motives are wide-ranging. Some may be out of despair, others out of a deliberate refusal to accept whatever physical or other inevitabilities face them. Walter Benjamin took his life when faced with the prospect of capture by the Nazis. I have nbo idea what motivated Metz, DeBord or others, but have to regard their actions with a mixture of sadness and respect. --Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN