[lbo-talk] Re: College students support war?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Apr 5 10:18:40 PST 2003


David Mandl wrote:
>
> >From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> >
> >[Disgusting. From the NY Times:]
> >
> >Professors Protest as Students Debate
>
> Why is it disgusting? I don't disagree with you--my reaction was
> similar to yours--but it would be nice to know exactly what bothers
> you about the piece. I'm not sure I'm able to articulate it myself.
> Is the Times picking up on a relatively minor phenomenon and making
> something much bigger (a STORY) out of it? Do you think what the
> article says is true and that this state of affairs is disgusting?

The percentage of students active now is probably as great as the percentage during the Vietnam War. In terms of sheer "gallup poll" numbers, students were overwhelmingly pro-war in the '60s. Anti-war sentiment (again in polling figures) was much higher among blue-collar workers than among students.

Carrol



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