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...opposition Conservative Party's spokesman for education, says the debts students accrue "will become so large that they will deter some students from attending university." Both the Tories and Liberal Democrats want to use taxes to pay the education bill. But despite the widespread protests, some students agree that they should share the cost of their education. Dan Ashley, a spokesman for the National Union of Students, says he objects to the new system but not to the idea of paying itself. If higher fees are introduced, he worries, "it will just be a number of years until...
Since four Harvard seniors were arrested at a protest against the Fair Trade Agreement of the Americas in Miami two weeks ago, the Institute of Politics’ funding policies for study group trips have faced internal and media scrutiny. The stated purpose of the trip in question was to observe the protest and collect data, but the fact that members of the group participated in the demonstration itself—leading to the arrest of four students—should not inhibit funding of similar trips in the future...
...interface between people and politics...Politics doesn’t happen exclusively in Cambridge, Mass.” But the interface between people and politics is not limited to internships at a political convention or an afternoon with a federal judge; paying for student groups to attend protests, even as participants, is a legitimate and important use of the IOP’s resources. Protest participation can provide an educational experience impossible to replicate the classroom or even as an impartial observer of the same protest. The arrest of the students is not a signal that the IOP needs...
...with engagement in mainstream institutions that operate from the top down, but when it comes to challenging the status quo from the bottom up and questioning those institutions of power, the IOP gets antsy. But both forms of engagement are vital to a productive and thriving democracy. Participating in protest is not only the most direct form of political engagement, but often the most effective. Without protest, for all we know, schools would still be segregated, women wouldn’t have the right to vote, and America might still be a colony. Neither Gandhi nor Martin Luther King ever...
...course, the concept of the IOP funding political protest raises thorny issues. How does a committee decide which protests are legitimate? What mode of action should be condoned? Should the IOP support students who are protesting the war in Iraq but withhold funds from students protesting against the right to have an abortion? Of course, these are difficult questions that require long and complicated deliberations. But just because these are tough questions doesn’t mean we should shy away from them. An obvious first step would be for IOP money to be limited to non-violent protest...