Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state to keep order within its territories. Obviously the Palestinians have a valid claim to an independent state on the West Bank and in Gaza, and I hope that they get it. However, these areas currently belong to Israel, and as much as the Palestinians have a right to protest against Israeli rule, the State of Israel has a right to impose order...
...willingness to focus on the issues of governance and process has stripped the divestment movement of any of its force. Last weekend's protest--both inside and outside 17 Quincy--were a painful demonstration of the activists' impotence. In the meeting, "insurgent" Overseers spent as much time arguing about Robert's Rules of Order as about South African investments. Outside, protesters listened to speakers: one from the African National Congress, a former state representative and an erstwhile activist who favors army surplus clothing and an earring. None of the Overseers took special notice of the protest, which has become...
Some of the disintegration of the campus protest movement naturally comes from the aging of any extremist group as its views and tactics move toward the center (or as the center moves toward it). A similar phenomenon accompanied the success of SCLC and SNCC in the civil rights movement. Perhaps the divestment movement is just becoming old and tired--especially to the students that have watched it spring after spring...
...real reason is what can only be labelled the "professionalization" of campus protest. An activist friend once described to me the intense and meticulous planning that went into the building of the shanties two years ago--certain groups were detailed to certain duties according to a precise timetable. Press releases are prepared and media representatives are sought for events that are calculated to produce the "right" image in the next day's news-papers and TV. People are designated to be arrested while volunteer lawyers are placed in strategic positions to make sure no one gets hurt...
...Nobody is questioning the value of continuing to teach the great works of Western culture," insists CIV Proponent Thomas Wasow, dean of undergraduate studies. The fear that just such a question was being raised, however, brought bellows of protest from academic conservatives like Education Secretary William Bennett. A devout classicist, he accused Stanford's revisionists of "academic intimidation," claiming that a "very vocal minority is attempting to overpower a less vocal majority." Dismantling the core curriculum, he warned, amounted to "trashing Plato and Shakespeare...