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Campus protesters shrug off the boycott threats as unfocused. "It's not as if people aren't shopping on Telegraph Avenue," the city's main artery, says Snehal Shingavi, one of the leaders of Berkeley's Stop the War coalition. "I think it was quite heroic what the council did." Berkeley's version of heroism dates back to the Free Speech Movement of 1964, when students first used civil disobedience to overturn a ban on campus activism. Four decades later, that activism may be less dramatic, but it is at least more colorful. Marches these days include the visually arresting...
...this conflict is no Vietnam, and Shingavi admits he's having trouble wooing a significant number of students off the sidelines. More troubling for old-time Berkeleyites, he has competition from a pro-war group. Berkeley USA, established in the wake of Sept. 11, has handed out more than 1,500 U.S. flags since the bombing began. Co-founder Sean Wycliffe is a fast-talking freshman who wants to be a stock trader. He says he's "sickened" by the council's resolution. "It's not their place to do any of this. They should be fixing roads and stuff...
...Campus protesters shrug off the boycott threats as unfocused. "It's not as if people aren't shopping on Telegraph Avenue," the city's main artery, says Snehal Shingavi, one of the leaders of Berkeley's Stop the War coalition. "I think it was quite heroic what the council did." Berkeley's version of heroism dates back to the Free Speech Movement of 1964, when students first used civil disobedience to overturn a ban on campus activism. Four decades later, that activism may be less dramatic, but it is at least more colorful. Marches these days include the visually arresting...
...this conflict is no Vietnam, and Shingavi admits he's having trouble wooing a significant number of students off the sidelines. More troubling for old-time Berkeleyites, he has competition from a pro-war group. Berkeley USA, established in the wake of Sept. 11, has handed out more than 1,500 U.S. flags since the bombing began. Co-founder Sean Wycliffe is a fast-talking freshman who wants to be a stock trader. He says he's "sickened" by the council's resolution. "It's not their place to do any of this. They should be fixing roads and stuff...
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