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Given all this, it seems that either students like Gould-Wartofsky appear to be the exception to the new norm or that we’re just living in an age of apathy...
...Activists are made, not born," says Gould-Wartofsky. "A lot of students haven’t necessarily seen movements before. This stuff was never taught at school….A lot of folks have a hard time understanding why people march in the street or even protest at all." Gould-Wartofsky says he hopes that more people who are taught and exposed to protest movements will mobilize...
Still, campus activists point out that all student movements have to start somewhere. Gould-Wartofsky says he has spoken to a number of members from the movement that led the 1969 protest, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and he has discovered that "we have a lot of the same experiences. SDS started out as just a handful of people...
...Gould-Wartofsky stresses the personal benefits of taking a critical look at Harvard and an individual student’s role within it. "How can you go four years without seriously questioning the place where you are? Or what you’re doing with your life?" he asks...
...think Harvard is a really hard place for someone to be who doesn’t want to work for ‘the man,’" Gould-Wartofsky says. "If you’re trying to work for the system, you have your whole life laid out, whereas if you’re trying to change it, you have to figure that out for yourself...