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...that’s probably step number 10 on the solution list. It makes much more sense to talk to the professors, to talk to your TFs.” But Kline said that it was unclear what fraction of students who skip are doing so out of protest. “An ‘unoffficial boycott’ seems to me [a] paradox,” Kline wrote. “How it is to be distinguished from mere absence, or laziness?” Both Frieden and Gates said that students might be confused by the change...
...attention of the nation was moving to [Vietnam] and away from civil rights,” says Lake. Young activists now flocked back to their campuses to protest the growing war in Southeast Asia...
...someone wrote a protest song to accompany Camille Paglia’s push for academic reform, the lyrics would go something like this: “Put down that Foucault, baby. Drop that Derrida. Come and join the Paglia crusade...
...presumptuous for the U.S. to attempt to take the moral high ground in a matter for which it has been rapidly losing credibility. The atrocities of Abu-Grahib and Guantanamo Bay preclude the U.S. from touting its own human rights standards as higher than those of others. A protest vote from a nation with such a questionable human rights record holds little sway, especially given its reputation for inflexibility and unilateralism in the U.N. Rather than stubbornly vote down the resolution and refuse to seek a seat on the Council, the U.S. should act upon its supposed commitment to human...
...truth, no one came out of the standoff better off than France's uncompromising younger generation - once again. Many observers view the current revolt, in contast to ideologically driven predecessors in French protest, as a symbol of a spoiled generation unwilling to deal with basic economic realities. The more radical protesters, however, retort that they are blazing a trail against globalization, and there is no denying that they managed essentially to block the country's much needed economic liberalization...