Students rally against war Some collegians urge peaceful action amid America's fervor for retaliation By Jill Lawrence USA TODAY September 20, 2001
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Todd Gitlin, a sociologist at New York University, says students have a right to be skeptical, but they also have a responsibility to suggest realistic alternatives. ''Bin Laden is not going to walk into a police station to turn himself in,'' he says. ''Are they really opposed to armed force that accomplishes that end?''
Gitlin led the leftist Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s and protested the Vietnam War. Now he has hung a flag outside his Greenwich Village apartment and says the nation has ''a right of self-defense,'' albeit ''restrained and focused,'' in the face of attack.