Word: gitlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take another draft to ignite America's college students against the war, and that, Gitlin says, is a pretty unlikely possibility right...
...Gitlin notes that just as the students of the '60s were preoccupied with civil rights before Vietnam, so students of the '90s were preoccupied with the environment before the Gulf crisis...
...even if the Gulf crisis does become a war, Gitlin says the protests at college campuses will look very different from the ones that rocked Harvard, Berkeley and other schools 20 years...
...starters, Gitlin says, today's students might be less eager to protest. While many students in the '60s were willing to be different because their economic futures were secure, today's students must contend with a far less welcoming economy--a factor that will reinforce conservatism...
...difference is the economic climate," Gitlin says. "The economy is contracting...and many students are worrying about whether they'll be doing as well as their parents...