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Michelle Myers' classmates want Kerry to stop fighting Vietnam and start fighting for them
Michelle Myers' classmates want Kerry to stop fighting Vietnam and
start fighting for them (EXCERPT), by Michelle Myers Newsweek Feb. 2 issue - Though he may call himself "Comeback Kerry," here at the University of California, Berkeley, the junior senator from Massachusetts still has an awfully long way to go. After Kerry shot to the front of the Democratic pack with an impressive victory in Iowa, many Berkeley students scratched their heads. It wasn't that they didn't like Kerry. It was that they didn't know who he was. Older Americans may have a hard time understanding how someone like Kerry could be so anonymous on the Berkeley campus today. To them, both the school and the senator (a war hero turned war protester) bring to mind the volatile Vietnam era and the tradition of political activism it spawned. When some older professors here make grand predictions about Kerry's political chances, it's clear that they're influenced by nostalgia for a protester past—the candidate's and their own. But Vietnam doesn't stir up the same emotions in today's Berkeley students as it did for their parents and professors four decades ago. Vietnam was the '60s; war for my generation means Iraq. Last spring, campus antiwar activists failed to organize mass demonstrations against the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq. It was a far cry from the Berkeley of old, where thousands of students caught the nation's attention, asking for "love, not war." Truth be told, it's issues closer to home that get today's Berkeley students riled up. Among the most popular sources of outrage is California's new governor—"Terminator" Arnold Schwarzenegger himself. The governor has raised the possibility of hiking tuition and... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today, 25 Jan 2004, at the following URL. (COMBINE the following lines into your web browser.) The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=4051786&p1=0 --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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