Word: wars
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...Dean of Student Archie C. Epps III also attributes the more broadly based student activism of the '60s to the Vietnam War and the fight for civil rights. Epps says comparisons between today's activism and '60s activism are unfair...
...Because you don't have the special dynamic of the war, plus the counterculture movement. Those two things are missing today," Epps says. "That movement was informed by the counterculture movement, which questioned prevailing norms of behavior and all forms of authority. It tended to be dismissive of College administrators. That is a major difference...
...February op-ed piece in The Crimson, Aron R. Fischer '99-'00 and Benjamin L. McKean '02, two PSLM members, began by describing a wave of anti-sweatshop sit-ins and protests at universities nationwide, then asked, "Is this a scene from 1969 during the opposition to the Vietnam War?...No these protests happened in February...
...Activists stress that while their cause is different from the anti-war protestors at Harvard in 1969, they are part of the same tradition...
West arrived at Harvard one year after the 1969 takeover of University Hall and the establishment of the Afro-Americanstudies department, and at the height of the BlackPower movement and the Vietnam War...