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Susan Peterson, a member of the strike commemoration committee told the audience that the rally organizers are not "hopeless nostalgics. We're not waiting for the sixties to return, but just as this University was complicit in the war through ROTC, it is complicit now in apartheid through its investments," Peterson said
...Boyle, who blathers sporadically about the 20 pounds of crap in his bowels, his putrid liver, leaden legs, rotting teeth, and sparse hair. Perched in his wheelchair, between the park bench and the garbage pail, he seems content to survey the progressive dissolution of others with a complicit smile that might be meant for a slyer old man, Beckett...
...Vietnamese people would be economically, politically and culturally suppressed. Such an argument is difficult to prove even now, in the so-called aftermath of the war. Yet more than one and a half years after the Paris peace agreement, Sartre's prediction has come true. The U.S. is complicit in--if not directly responsible for--continued violations of the Paris accord. Not only do these violations of the peace treaty, which was called an "Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam," take the form of political and economic oppression, but they are blatantly acts of aggression...
Finally, since the writers clearly believe that the Marines are "genocidal," how can they, in good conscience, continue to work for The Crimson, which by printing the ad must surely now be complicit in such "genocide?" If the students who wrote the editorial truly believe in their principles, and truly object as strenuously to the Marines as their words suggest, then why don't they resign from The Crimson? I doubt that anyone has actually resigned, and I think that their failure to do so is indicative of the complex nature of such problems that they themselves have refused...
...would be lovely to live in a world where a pure academic community can exist, where scholars needn't think about atrocities outside their gates. It would be lovely to live in a world without atrocities. But while a war wages in Indochina, an unjust war waged with the complicit support of the University, one can't expect peace to prevail within those gates. The University must fight to create a world where an academic community can exist...