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

[Liza Featherstone]

Don't be too dismayed. Large numbers of students on hundreds of campuses
have been demonstrating against this war.  They are networked nationally,
and it would have been have been very easy for the Times reporter to get in
touch with them. But that's not the story the Times was interested in
writing, obviously.

Liza


> From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 17:52:34 +0000
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: College students support war?
> 
>> From: David Mandl <dmandl at panix.com>
>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> There was a great line on South Park recently:  "There's a time and a place
> for everything, and it's called college."  Undergraduate years are an
> intermission in your active adult life -- a break between being dominated by
> parents and being dominated by corporations.  It's the time when you have
> the greatest opportunity to speak out about really matters to you.  It's
> dismaying to know that the grasping careerists who make up today's student
> bodies are little inclined to do anything with this freedom other than cheer
> on the US war machine.
> 
> Carl
> 
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