The Hamburger Rebellion of 1964
College protests during the 1960s weren't all about war and civil rights. In 1964, students at California's Long Beach State started marching in protest after the school cafeteria raised the price of hamburgers five cents. It immediately became known in the press as the "Hamburger Rebellion." The students won a small victory, in that they managed to get the cafeteria to drop a two-cents charge for extra ketchup, but the price hike for the hamburgers remained.
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What ever happened to the "Give Calf back to Mexico" rebellion?
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/09/15 at 09:49 AM
I like how the general manager of both the campus cafe and campus book store was asked to justify the situation.
In my experience campus book stores are even more of a racket than the cafes. I ask you, how can a used item like a book increase in value over time? And yet that was my observation while attending university.
In my experience campus book stores are even more of a racket than the cafes. I ask you, how can a used item like a book increase in value over time? And yet that was my observation while attending university.
Posted by KDP on 01/09/15 at 09:57 AM
Gotta always have a "beef" about something nowadays too. Education is really a racket and failed system. What I needed to know I learned very early on about electronics and computers which much was self taught because it interested me. I didn't need to know physics, chemistry, calculus, etc etc.
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 01/09/15 at 02:57 PM
So that's how kids rebelled back then.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/09/15 at 06:45 PM
In Soviet Russia, burgers revolt you.
Posted by Fluffy Bunny Slippers on 01/09/15 at 07:34 PM
@FBS - The Burgers were fried in the Tsar time.
Posted by BMN on 01/11/15 at 12:50 AM
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Category: 1960s | Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia