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...exactly PT-109. When J.F.K. was gearing up for his 1960 presidential run, the Kennedys spread the story of his bravery in the Pacific, not his conquests in Georgetown. But that was when smart candidates wanted charisma. Now they want cover, which, oddly enough, requires them to make pre-emptive strikes on themselves. In the aftermath of the White House scandal, it's a good bet that "youthful indiscretions" will get you more press than anything you say about school vouchers. Will voters care? If the past year teaches anything, it's that, up to a point still undefined, they...
...worry about. Over the last few weeks, a wave of students protesting sweatshop labor have targeted the offices of college presidents who haven't agreed to the code of conduct demanded by the activists. At Duke, students seized President Nannerl O. Keohane's office for 31 hours. At Georgetown, a four-day occupation of President Leo J. O'Donovan's office ended last week after Georgetown acceded to the student demands. And it could happen here. Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, one of the organizers of the sweatshop protest at Harvard earlier this week, told The Crimson Tuesday that occupying...
...especially now when student apathy seems to be hitting new highs. We imagine the protesters of the '60s as ideologically pure, people who renamed University Hall after Che Guevara--and meant it. It seems the protesters today are trying to prove they have the same zeal. The protesters at Georgetown certainly didn't decide to take over O'Donovan's office solely to evoke the radical romanticism of the 60s, but they--along with anti-sweatshop groups across the country--are clearly trying to inspire comparisons between themselves and protesters of an earlier era. In their haste to emulate their...
...taking over a building is by its nature a violent act, and though the takeovers at Duke and Georgetown may have come and gone without forcibly removing deans from their offices, there's no guarantee that it won't happen next time. Some would argue that, in extreme situations, violence (or, in the words of a 1969 Crimson editorial, "militant action") is justified. But it's hard to believe that forcing deans and secretaries from their desks is truly justified under any circumstances...
Putting aside ethical considerations, are confrontational tactics even effective? The Georgetown and Duke sit-ins both succeeded in forcing the administrations of those schools to come to the bargaining table with activists. But both of these groups, in a sense, got lucky; the takeovers never evolved into an actual physical confrontation (though, most likely, the students never intended to take the protest that...