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...there are other, more troubling similarities. Today’s protesters are the same resume rebels we have seen over the last few years. They are the same guilty middle class suburbanites who hunger for a social cause as grand as the movements their parents joined in college, even if no such cause currently exists. They are the superheroes of non-issues who can smell a distressed janitor or a non-fair-trade cup of coffee from a mile away and can instantly mount an impassioned protest without even thinking...
...August, many members of Lambda, the student-run gay rights group that organized yesterday’s protest, said they understood that the Law School had little choice but to allow recruiters for the Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG) to use its Office of Career Services...
...protest came on the same day as on-campus JAG interview sessions by the Navy. Last Friday, for the first time in decades, the Office of Career Services (OCS) arranged Pound Hall recruiting sessions for the Air Force...
...like that of any gap-year activist. In 1996, inspired by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's book Freedom from Fear, he hooks up with a refugee group in Burma, where he teaches English. Soon he hungers for a direct confrontation with the regime. After his one-man protest in Rangoon is broken up (it consists of Mawdsley locking himself to a gate and shouting democratic slogans while blasting the film soundtrack to The Mission), he decides that he will return with the intent of going to prison. He shrugs off conventional activism. "The powerfully written reports by NGOS...
There followed the usual choreographed outrage. Lambda, HLS’s resident gay-rights group (and what campus is complete without one?), has planned a protest for today. HLS Dean Robert C. Clark will be in attendance, as will Al Dershowitz (never one to miss a good controversy). But they can do little to change the fact that JAG recruiters have found a home...