Word: protesting
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Approximately 800 students from UMass Amherst and three area colleges picketed and chanted at the Amherst campus last night to protest a speech by controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...
...UMass Amherst Hillel organized and rally to protest Farrakhan's speech and no criticize the use of student's funds to pay for the Nation of Islam leader's $20,000 appearance. All students are billed a mandatory $84 to pay for campus speakers, according to Josh Slomich, a senior at UMass Amherst who organized the protest...
Although the Hillels at both UMass Amherst andHarvard are enraged by the Nation of Islam'sviews, neither group plans to join any nationalcampaigns or continue to protest after Farrakhanleaves the campus, according to Hillel leaders atboth schools...
There are no substantive reasons for minority student protest at Harvard. The real reason for these never-ending protests is that today's liberal students suffer from an identity crisis. They desperately want to see themselves as heirs to both the long-haired, hair-raising protesters of the sixties and the civil rights demonstrators of that same period...
Failing to follow the law students' path of toning down protest, the protesting undergraduates cling desperately to the era of wasted youth (why yes, that is a double entendre). These pesky protesters just don't know when to quit...