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...disrupters’ methods are particularly disheartening because HSF’s protest was such a victory for students’ freedom of speech at Harvard. There was much controversy surrounding the admissibility of a protest at the event, due to the group’s late registration and lack of college affiliation. Yet Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd and Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II were entirely reasonable with the HSF and fellow protestors; they allowed them the space to protest peacefully outside of the Science Center. We can only hope that Tuesday?...
...February, with his UC term behind him, Mahan joined forces with former Black Men’s Forum president Brandon M. Terry ’05 to launch a protest fund in opposition to the University’s investment in PetroChina, an energy corporation with ties to the Sudanese genocide...
That this protest follows the incredibly effective and appropriate social movement to divest from PetroChina is ironic. The grass-roots organization and dedication of the Darfur Action Group, and the Senior Gift Plus group shows that there is, indeed, great potential for peaceful student movements and protests in progressive politics. Both the Darfur Action Group and Senior Gift Plus focused upon researching and further educating the Harvard student population on an issue. Neither group sought to silence political discourse. The difference between these student movements and the protest staged before the counterterrorism panel is that the former is made...
Although the media has revealed questionable practices of intelligence services over the past few months, there are more effective methods of raising awareness than those employed by students at the panel. The disdain for intellectual and political freedom being exhibited before the panel stood in stark contrast to the protest be carried out in good taste right outside the Science Center doors. The so-called progressive student disrupters should attempt to engage in a more intellectually rigorous manner instead of staging farcical skits and rude cell-phone ringing orchestration. That students chose to rudely belittle the guest panelists...
...group of students that claims to be advocating among many other causes, for workers’ rights, who do you think will clean up the remnants of your protest? That’s right, the Harvard worker, who you loftily claim to be advocating for, is cleaning up your disgusting vomit...