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A Failed Experiment

I was working in the Redwood Building and it was about 11:00 PM.
There was a student in a classroom with a girl and they were working
on an assignment. He had written some notes on the chalkboard. Buck
Hammer, Head of Buildings and Grounds, gave us strict instructions
to eject all students by 11:00 PM. So I asked him and the girl to leave.
He refused and went into an angry rant about how I was a 1-W and
could not get into AC and that I was envious of the students and that
was the only reason why I was kicking him and the girl out. I don’t
remember ever exchanging more than a few words with this student
before this event. Then he went back to his chalkboard and continued
his work. I had to persist to get him to leave. I reported this to a regular
staff member and the next day the student approached me and gave me
an insincere and grudging apology. Thereafter, he referred to me by a
name that was a derivative of the term Neanderthal Man. This name
calling was not done in a comic way but in a contemptuous way.

I once asked a student (now a minister in the WCG) if he knew what a
1-W was. Surprisingly, the student had no idea that being a 1-W had
to do with standing up for your religious convictions in opposition to
military service. The student thought that the 1-W program was a
government sponsored program for people who were unfit and
incompetent and elsewhere unemployable. He reacted with great
surprise when I told him what a 1-W actually was and why I was
working at AC. How many other students thought that the 1-W
program was a social rehabilitation program? What does this say about
how the 1-W program was presented to them? What does this say about
their level of curiosity, their “outgoing concern” about other people?

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