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Several signatories said their own undergraduate experience when civil rights and Vietnam War protests were at their height made them particularly attuned to the lack of visible campus activism...
...letter objects to the “apparently docile political behavior of the undergraduate student body” despite controversies over the preservation of civil liberties and the war in Iraq. It contends that the University is not fostering an environment conducive to “civic courage and political engagement...
...demand answers about the Vietnam War. But by the year of their graduation, their inability to effect real social and political change had somewhat exhausted those who entered in 1963 so full of hope. The Vietnam War dragged on, with the worst yet to come, and the civil rights movement had made only superficial gains. “Few classes have entered Harvard with more faith in government (stirred by calls to action from a young, vigorous leader) but few have left with less,” wrote Richard Blumenthal ’67 in an article published June...
Dubbing the fight against pornography “the next civil rights movement,” speaker Gail Dines implored her Fong Auditorium audience last week to “get out in the streets” to fight the crisis. Dines, who told me she considers herself a “radical feminist,” is a professor of sociology at nearby Wheelock College, where she studies the relationship between pornography and mainstream culture...
...reformers may have arrested their slide into irrelevance with yesterday's victory by Anson Chan, a widely known ex-civil servant who has refashioned herself as a champion of universal suffrage. According to returns reported Monday, Chan won about 55% of the vote in a by-election to replace Ma Lik, a prominent pro-Beijing legislator who died in August...