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What did we have to show for our week of shouting and marching? We had performed no valuable public service. Marching was too easy; the police and the protests?? sponsors did most of the work anyhow, blocking traffic and setting up the routes. The obvious planning that had gone into these organized events wore on their symbolism. We protestors were apparently not angry enough to match the rowdiness of our Vietnam-era counterparts. Meanwhile, what spontaneous disturbances did crop up often served to alienate voters. Collectively, it was quite possible that we hadn’t convinced...
...When people go through an experience like this, they need to spill it all out,” Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Tom Hayden—who accompanied the eight undergraduates to the protests??told an audience of about 20. “They need to spill things out before they can sort them...
...most Americans—that is, those who are not the privileged rich kids that populate antiwar protests??who cannot even name who Dean is, quotes from him probably seem as if they are come-agains from the Weather Underground or Students for a Democratic Society. Not even two minutes after every major Bush speech, Dean quickly brands it with some spicy adjective that The New York Times takes great glee in putting into type. Such is the case with Bush’s Sept. 8 speech on the recent events in Iraq. Dean made quick work...
...Bush administration continued sending tens of thousands of troops to the region in preparation for war. News reports have estimated the number may eventually climb as high as 250,000; it seems that Bush is set on going to war, no matter the outcome of the inspections. Yet vocal protests??on this campus and others across the nation—to what is seemingly an inevitable war have been quiet compared to protests of the 1960s. Admittedly, this is not Vietnam, and a war on the other side of the world without a draft does not rile...
Students’ frustration with what they said was a lack of response on the part of the administration led them to take a mix of tactics—working within the system and becoming more vocal through protests??to advance their cause this school year...