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From his perch beneath the 17-foot American flag draped from University Hall, John Harvard might never have known that his country was again at war. On only one occasion this year were the statue’s thousands of daily passers-by confronted with the kind of protests common just 35 years ago, when violence escalated in Vietnam and calls for university reform remained unanswered. Although much has changed since students risked their college draft exemptions to stop war, this year’s unnerving quiet had little to do with distaste for protest...
...nothing. Traditional Harvard liberalism, activism and reasoned judgment each made their unceremonious retreats. All of this was invisible to John Harvard, of course, as he looked out on the small world of the Yard. Impervious to war and unrest alike, he sat silent and watchful, stilled by the American flag fluttering softly above his head...
...April 7, HRC began collecting signatures and distributing flag pins in support of the American troops in Iraq. In a response similar to that during the war against Afghanistan, the rally garnered hundreds of signature from pro- and anti-war students alike...
Behind the bar, in the corner, hangs a Communist Party flag that Sam and Kieran bought on their trip to Russia the summer after sophomore year...
...PATRIOT Act is a beastly 131-page creation that was passed in a flurry of flag-waving in 2001. It has several terrible provisions: it allows “preventive detentions” and gives the federal government greater authority over the records of foreign students and vastly expands wiretap authority. One misguided requirement even mandates discrimination; it prevents university labs from allowing citizens of seven “terrorist-supporting states” to perform research on certain classified substances...