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Divided and uncertain, most chose to discuss little and protest less. As a Crimson poll revealed this spring, Harvard students were twice as likely to oppose war as the American public, but as millions across the globe united in demonstrations on Feb. 15, the Yard lay cold and barren. The Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice organized the only three campus protests that drew triple-digit student attendance, two of which were launched within a week of the invasion. No chants echoed in the Yard between October—when Congress granted Bush the full power to make war?...
Where Vietnam shook student confidence in their government, Sept. 11 taught them to distrust their own convictions. Many who might have protested war in Iraq before Sept. 11 became paralyzed by fear, haunted by the prospect that unnamed terrorist foes might find an armed ally in Baghdad. Students ignored their own misgivings until the first full day of the invasion, when 1,500 students, faculty and members of the community finally came together in the second-largest campus protest in Harvard history, larger than any during Vietnam. But that confident opposition was an exception. In the months before...
Chew says professors’ reluctance to engage directly in protest did not go unnoticed...
...Rape happens at Harvard and what does Harvard do? Harvard buries its head in the sand!” was the cry from the director of the Boston Chapter of the National Organization for Women at that rally. Students, faculty and alumni had joined to protest the proceedings of the May Faculty meeting where professors had been rushed into voting for a measure that was billed as a “minor change to the handbook.” That “minor” change was the now-infamous “corroboration rule,” which...
Yesterday’s massive student anti-war walk-out was a necessary and productive display of dissent against a highly objectionable war. For Harvard students to leave classes and disrupt standard daily life was a necessary acknowledgement of the U.S. first strike against Iraq; the protest served as important impetus and vehicle for dialogue about...