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...weeks ago, Harvard witnessed one of the most unusual acts of protest I’ve ever heard of. As representatives of the Central Intellgence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urged Harvard students to join up, a student forced himself to vomit into a bag. This act—supposed to symbolize the student’s disgust with the shoddy human rights record of America’s intelligence community—has become the subject of more discussion than any other puke in Harvard’s history. One man’s vomit...
Like most people, I am uncomfortable with vomit. But what made the CIA/DHS protest so brilliantly appropriate is exactly that it was so inappropriate. The vomit jolted students into paying attention. A quiet rally outside the event would not have had this effect. Vomit may not be pretty, but vomit works...
April is a good month for protest. Roughly four years before the Progressive Puker opened his mouth, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) spent 21 days “occupying” Mass. Hall to compel Harvard to pay its workers a living wage. The criticism of PSLM’s act sounded a lot like the criticism of the Puker. The Crimson, which supported a living wage, argued that the occupation was “unjustified and inappropriate.” A majority of students supported a living wage, but less than a third supported the occupation. The University...
...rally scheduled to coincide with a large-scale march in Mexico City, around 35 students and local community members gathered in Harvard Square on Sunday to protest the prosecution of the popular leftist mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador...
Marusia Musacchio-Farias, a graduate student in the East Asian Studies Department who organized the protest, said that the group had gathered to oppose what they said was an undemocratic ploy by Fox’s government...