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...this year’s labor protest, a building takeover seemed out of the question, leaving the undergraduate activists to adopt a less confrontational—but perhaps more dangerous—method of dissent...
...Ironically, Bok’s attitude of receptivity in the face of student discontent may be indicative of an experienced administrator helping to ally the possibility of truly belligerent protest...
...greater competitiveness of the economy discourages people from taking risks with their careers by protesting,” the University of Chicago law professor Richard Posner suggested on his blog recently. “Someone who gets the reputation in college of being a violent protester, or is suspended or simply gets very low grades because of the distraction of engaging in protest activities, will see his opportunities for a good job diminish.” (Contacted for comment, Posner declined to speculate how his observation might apply to Harvard specifically...
...shout over any opponent. The most recent example of such behavior was the harassment of FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III at an Institute of Politics Forum in April. Four students began shouting at Mueller about a minute into his talk and continued yelling until they were arrested. This protest did nothing to generate any type of debate. I cannot think of a single person who was prompted to consider the FBI’s alleged infringement of civil liberties. In fact, I couldn’t even remember what the protestors were actually protesting until I looked...
...activities results in a campus with a collective personality that can at times seem whiny, over-inflated, and obsessed with being the best. Everyone must constantly lay claim to being the most tired, having the most pages due during reading period, and fuming with greatest intensity about the protest issue du jour. We demand to be heard on every issue and we are sure that, if given the chance, we could do it better than anyone else—whatever “it” happens to be. And, if you don’t let us do things...