ACTA
List Breakdown By College or University
ACTA's report, "Defending
Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America, and What Can Be
Done About It," pretends to present an objective picture of what is happening
on America's campuses. Its evidence, which is barely mentioned, much
less analyzed in the body of the report, is presented in an 117 item list
in the appendix.
Perhaps the clearest indication
that ACTA's list measures nothing but it's own perceptions is the extreme
concentration of events reported at a bare handful of colleges. This
seems to reflect nothing but the easy availablity of data from the sources
ACTA has latched onto, for whatever reason. This in turn highlights the
total lack of any basic methodology in collecting these items–much
less collecting any contrary evidence..
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A single school–Brown–accounted
for 15 items, more than one in
every 8 on the list.
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Just 3 schools–Brown,
the University of North Carolina (UNC) and UC Berkeley–accounted
for 40 items, more than one in
every three on the list.
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Just 7 schools–those
already mentioned, plus Harvard, MIT, the University of Michigan and the
City University of New York–accounted
for 59 items, more than half the
items on the list.
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One single outside speaker at
a UNC teach-in accounted for 3 items, the same amount as each of four schools–Princeton,
Yale, Columbia and the City College of New York–and
more items than 37 other schools, 7 of which had 2 items each reported,
and 30 of which had only 1 item reported.
Ten
or More Items: 3 Schools, 40 Items
Brown
[15]
4. Kevin
Lourie, professor of anthropology, Brown University School of Medicine:
"[T]his
war can end only to the extent that we relinquish our role as world leader,
overhaul our lifestyle and achieve political neutrality. … Perhaps our
best options now are to search for the origins of this new war, draw strength
from understanding our own weaknesses, and make changes within ourselves
and within our relationships to others. Many wonder if we are paying an
accumulated debt for centuries of dominance and intervention far from home,
retribution for our culture of consumption and exploitation. … We must
… re-examine our place in the world, and begin to imagine a world without
super-powers."
5. Adil
Najam, Tufts University professor of international relations, at Brown
University panel discussion: "…the
U.S. was basically using Pakistan the way you use a condom. That is, you
use the condom to avoid getting dirty, but then you throw the condom away
after you've used it and don't think about it again—well, the condom certainly
thinks about it."
6. William
Keach, professor of English, Brown University: "What
happened on September 11 was terrorism, but what happened during the Gulf
War was also terrorism."
35. William
O. Beeman, professor of anthropology, Brown University: "A
despicable act of mayhem such as those commit-ted in New York and Washington
is a measure of the revulsion that others feel at our actions that seemingly
limit those rights [to self-determination]. If we perpetuate a cycle of
hate and revenge, this conflict will escalate into a war that our great-grandchildren
will be fighting."
41 . David
Kertzer, professor of anthropology, Brown University: "[The
Pentagon] represents America's impregnable right."
42. George
Borts, professor of economics, Brown University. "If
people have some patriotic fervor, they are going to have to work for the
CIA, slitting throats in dark alleys."
1. Freelancer
Peter Zedrin at Brown University protest: "I
was cheering when the Pentagon got hit because I know about the brutality
of the military. The American flag is nothing but a symbol of hate and
should be used for toilet paper for all I care."
39. Daniel
Rothman '04, Brown University: "It's
good for the government to know that there are people who want peace instead
of bloodshed. Not all Americans want revenge."
45. Shaun
Joseph '02, Brown University: "We
cannot simply go on with our daily routines as our country prosecutes an
unjust war. Students are walking out in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan
who must now suffer the double burden of a dicta-torial regime and American
bombs."
46. Brian
Rainey '04, Brown University: "To
call this a just war is to ignore the mountain of injustice it is based
on. People are just drunk on the cheap jingoism of the media and politicians."
54. Brown
student activist: "I consider
myself a patriot. I think this country does wonderful things for its citizens,
but we must acknowledge the terrible things it often does to the citizens
of other countries."
40. Taniq
Banuri, Stockholm Environment Institute at Brown University panel discussion:
"Many
terrorists get their start being pushed around by a bus driver or abused
by a police offi-cer just because they are different."
44. "One, two, three, four—we
don't want a racist war."—chant
at Brown University war protest.
43. Brown
University: "Some 120 students
walked out of class and gathered on the Main Green to protest U.S. military
strikes in Afghanistan. At least two professors dismissed class early to
allow students to attend." *
37. Neta
Crawford, visiting associate professor (research) at the Thomas J. Watson
Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University; assistant professor
of political science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: "We
would justifiably resent attacks on New York or Boston in retaliation for
those cities 'harboring' IRA terrorists. … The responsible thing for the
President and Congress to do would be to lower the rhetorical temperature
in Washington and halt the contest to sound more bellicose and patriotic
than the last politician or official…."
UNC
[14]
2. Elin
O'Hara Slavick, professor of art, at University of North Carolina teach-in:
"We
offer this teach-in as an alternative to the cries of war and as an end
to the cycle of continued global violence."
3. Panelist
Stan Goff at University of North Carolina teach-in: "We
will tumble from chauvinism into the abyss of recession and tribalism .
"
107. Panelist
Stan Goff, University of North Carolina teach-in: "The
de facto executive branch and the compliant press are put-ting the historical
spotlight right now on December 7, 1941, and Pearl Harbor. I think we need
to aim that spotlight at February 27 in 1933 and the Reichstag fire."
17. Journalist
William Blum at University of North Carolina teach-in: "If
I were the president, I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans,
the tortured and the impoverished, and all the millions of other victims
of American imperialism." "[T]here are few if any nations in the world
that have harbored more terrorists than the United States."
84. Journalist
William Blum at University of North Carolina teach-in: "These
acts of terrorism will not stop as long as we are intervening in civil
wars that are none of our business besides serving the interests of U.S.
corporations."
92. Journalist
William Blum at University of North Carolina teach-in: "…
I would announce that America's global interventions had come to an end.
I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90 percent and I would
use the savings to pay the reparations to our victims and to increase social
services."
80. On Oct. 4, at the
University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Campus
Y, the Division of Student Affairs, and Sangam (South Asian awareness group),
sponsors Arun Ghandi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi reiterates what
he had written earli-er: "We must acknowledge our role in helping to create
mon-sters in the world, find ways to contain these monsters without hurting
more innocent people and then redefine our role in the world."
52. "An eye for an
eye makes the world blind."—sign
at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
79. Elin
O'Hara Slavick, professor of art, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,
shows
a slide show of her artwork, "Places the United States has Bombed" at a
teach-in entitled: "What is war? What is peace?" The teach-in then divides
into workshops: US Foreign Policy; Civil Rights in Time of War; Action
Through Non-Violence; How to Organize Actions Against War; The Role of
Armed Resistance; Community, Networking, and Outreach; Visual Strategies
for Peace During War, and Arguments for Peace.
85. Catherine
Lutz, professor of anthropology, University of North Carolina: "The
parallel to [September 11] is not Pearl Harbor. It is February 1947, when
a new war was declared." "Hunting the terrorists from their holes [reminds
me] of the racial hatred that has preceded, stoked, and been inflamed by
nearly every one of the 20 th century's wars."
98. Catherine
Lutz, professor of anthropology, University of North Carolina: "If
one [of the perpetrators] is Osama Bin Laden, send the international police
for him and pick up Henry Kissinger and Augusto Pinochet on the way home."
100 . Charles
Kurzman, professor of sociology, University of North Carolina : "
We ' re … playing into the hands of our own militarists, whose interests
always lie, I believe, in the exaggeration of threats, armed responses,
and so on. In fact, I would argue that there is tacit collusion among the
militarists of all sides."
15. "How to organize actions
against war"—teach-in
sponsored by Political Science and Geography Departments, University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
[Many sorts of events on various campuses require this sort of sponsorship,
which does not necessarily indicate any faculty involvement.]
78. Rania
Masri, speaking at "Understanding the Attack on America: an Alternate View,"
University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill, Sept. 17, 2001:
"The question we should explore is not who we should bomb or where we should
bomb, but why we were targeted. When we have the answer to why, then we
will have the ability to prevent terrorist attacks tomorrow."
Berkeley
[11]
8 . George
Lakoff, professor of linguistics, University of California-Berkeley: "…the
planes [were] penetrating the towers with a plume of heat. The Pentagon,
a vaginal image from the air, penetrated by the plane as missile."
47. 76
University of California-Berkeley professors
joined with 100 other academics in an advertisement in the New York Times,
calling the war unacceptable.
58. More than 100 students
protest and demand a front-page apology and greater Arab and Muslim representation
after student editors at the University
of California - Berkeley Daily
Californian publish a cartoon. The cartoon shows two bearded men wearing
turbans and long robes, standing in what appears to be hell saying: "We
made it to paradise! Now we will meet Allah, and be fed grapes, and be
serviced by 70 virgin women, and…"
59. The
UC Berkeley Student Senate adopts
a resolution, 11-7, demanding a front-page apology and diversity training
for staff members. Student senate member Jessica Quindel tells the Contra
Costa Times: "It's not about being offended. It's about the implications
of [running] an inflammatory cartoon at a time when there had already been
more than 1,000 hate crimes against the communities depicted. Racism is
not an American right." The editorial board issued a statement saying it
would not apologize since the cartoon fell within the realm of fair political
commentary.
60. UC
Berkeley Student Senate member Sajid Khan said: "[Although
the cartoon] did not outright call for violence, it promoted and perpetuated
the same ignorance and intolerance that has led to the death of many across
our nation."
61. UC
Berkeley Student Senate proposes
raising the school newspaper's rent after it runs a controversial cartoon.
91. Kayla
Monroe, part-time student, University of California-Berkeley: "The
media has stirred the country into a froth of hatred and revenge. All this
so-called support for military action has been completely manufactured.
I don't know anyone who thinks it would be a good idea."
104. Troy,
student, University of California-Berkeley: "I
care about the anti-war movement to an extent, but I don't see how that's
gonna stop crazy George Bush from going to war. He wouldn't even help us
out with the energy crisis, so why would he give a damn about a few sons
and daughters of hippies and Black Panthers protesting?"
112. "Stop the violence,
stop the hate."—chant
at the University of California-Berkeley.
113. Dominique,
22-year-old student at the University of California-Berkeley: "The
main issue is racism in general."
115. University
of California-Berkeley: "[M]ilitary
uniforms were burned in effigy and faculty members conducted classes outside
to protest the war." *
Five
or Six Items: 2 Schools, 11 Items
Five
or More Items : 5 Schools, 51 Items
Harvard
[6]
30. "What do we want?
Peace! When do we want it? Now!"— chant
at Harvard Rally, Sept.
20, 2001
32. Tim
McCarthy, Harvard lecturer in history and literature: "[I
deplore those] who are deploying rhetoric and deploying troops without
thinking before they speak."
19. Jesse
Jackson, speech at Harvard Law School: "[We
should] build bridges and relationships, not simply bombs and walls."
33. "An eye for an
eye leaves the world blind."—Molly
McOwen '02, Harvard University, holding sign at peace rally, Sept.
20, 2001
72. Harvard
Sign: "War Is Also Terrorism."
73. Student
Protestors in Harvard Square: "One,
two, three, four—we don't want another war! Five, six , seven, eight—stop
the violence, stop the hate!"
MIT
[5]
10. Hugh
Gusterson, professor of anthropology and science and technology studies,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "[I]magine
the real suffering and grief of people in other countries. The best way
to begin a war on terrorism might be to look in the mirror."
22 . Wayne
O'Neil, professor of linguistics, MIT: "What
the U.S. calls counter- terrorism is terrorism by another name. Operation
Infinite Justice—the Bush administration's code name for p roposed military
action against terrorists—is 'cowboy law. ' "
111. Wayne
O'Neil, professor of linguistics, MIT: "[Americans
should] bring ourselves and our country to justice, not just the perpetrators."
29. Noam
Chomsky at MIT: "[T]he only
way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in
it."
74. Jean
Jackson, professor of anthropology, MIT: "
To declare war, in this case, is a dangerous use of metaphoric language:
it dignifies terrorist acts and implies a war with terrorists could end
with a peace treaty. We must resist calls for revenge or retaliation. "
Four
Items: 2 Schools, 8 Items
Three
or More Items : 7 Schools, 59 Items
CUNY
[4]
7. Walter
Daum, mathematics instructor, at City University of New York teach-in:
"The
ultimate responsibility lies with the rulers of this country, the capitalist
ruling class of this country."
108. Walter
Daum, mathematics instructor, at CUNY teach-in: "American
imperialism is responsible for this terrorist attack."
48. Professional
Staff Congress, City University of New York:
"[Students and teachers] do not need to be fighting against fellow- workers
under other flags and gods but rather against their own corporate or government
employers, as we are at CUNY." The Professional Staff Congress is the union
that represents the faculty and staff of the City University of New York.
The City University of New York is the largest public urban university
in the country. *
110. CUNY
Forum: "It was a two-hour,
hard-core America bashing festival. The terrorist attack on the trade center
was referred to by faculty as 'the incident.' Terrorists were described
as freedom fighters. One anthropology professor, M.A. Samad-Matias, framed
the atrocity as an understandable Islamic response to Western imperialism."
"Student government leader Kenneth Williams said African-Americans should
be suspicious of 'rallying around the flag' and becoming 'tools of the
ruling class' in a war."*
University
of Michigan [4]
86. Luke
Massie, University of Michigan student member of the Coalition to Defend
Affirmative Action and Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means
Necessary: "We're linking
the fight against racism against a racist war abroad."
70. Chanting
Students, University of Michigan: "No
racist scapegoating, no racist war, we won't take it anymore."
76. Signs
at the University of Michigan: "Revenge
Is Not Justifiable" and "No Racist War."
18. David
Horn, student at University of Michigan and columnist, Michigan Daily:"…the
actions taken by the terrorists on Tuesday are not completely unwarranted.
We try to forget about the way this country behaves internationally—that
we too often behave as terrorists."
Three
Items: 4 Schools, 12 Items
Three
or More Items : 11 Schools, 71 Items
Princeton
[3]
12. Michael
Rothschild, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University: "There
is a terrible and understandable desire to find and punish whoever was
responsible for this. But as we think about it, it's very important for
Americans to think about our own history, what we did in World War II to
Japanese citizens by interning them."
77. Fred
Hitz, Director of the project on international intelli-gence, Woodrow Wilson
School's Center of International Studies, Princeton University: "We
need to think about what could have produced the frustrations that caused
these crimes. To have that kind of hatred is a phenomenon we will have
to try to understand."
64. Richard
Falk, Princeton University emeritus professor, at town meeting:
"[D]emocracies, because they have a sense of self-pride and moral consciousness,
can often act without restraint and be destructive of the values they are
trying to promote. The thinking is to find the perpetrators and engage
in a military response and feel that that solves something. But there needs
to be an understanding of why this kind of suicidal violence could be undertaken
against our country."
Yale
[3]
36. Strobe
Talbott, Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization: "It
is from the desperate, angry and bereaved that these suicide pilots came."
97. Paul
Kennedy, professor of history, Yale University: "How
do we appear to them, and what would it be like were our places in the
world reversed?" "Suppose that there existed today a powerful, unified
Arab-Muslim state that stretched from Algeria to Turkey and Arabia. In
those conditions, would not many Americans steadily grow to loathe that
colossus?"
114. Senwung
Luk, student, Yale University: "Just
because a grotesque act was committed against this country, does not mean
any response is justified; it does not grant this country special license
to use the sword."
Columbia
[3]
56. Eric
Foner, professor of history, Columbia University: "I'm
not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City
or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House."
69. Amonika
Kumar, student, Columbia University: "[It
is] ridiculous for us to go and kill more people because of what Bin Laden
did."
105. Joseph
L. Buttenwieser, professor of social science, Columbia University: "Contingent
Predictions: … Bombing the presumed originator(s) of Tuesday's attacks
and forcing other countries to choose sides will therefore aggravate the
very con-ditions American leaders will declare they are preventing. … If
so, democracy (defined as relatively broad and equal citizenship, binding
consultation of citizens, and protection from arbitrary actions by governmental
agents) will decline across the world."
CCNY[3]
55. Bill
Crain, professor of psychology, City College of New York: "Our
diplomacy is horrible." Mr. Crain later told the Chronicle of Higher Education
that his remarks were distorted: "I said U.S. alliances have shifted. We
support one person, and then another, but the constant is violence. We
need to address that and work for peace."
106. Nuriel
Heckler, sophomore at City College of New York: "We
don't feel military action will stop terrorism, but it will lead to racism
and hate."
16. "Anti-Americanism
and anti-war sentiment raged yesterday during a 'teach-in' at City
College of New York. The
vast majority of the students and professors who spoke at the session,
attended by about 200 people, ranted against any American military action—some
of them even blaming the United States for the World Trade Center disaster."
*
Two:
7 Schools, 14 Items
Two
or More: 18 Schools, 85 Items
Haverford
[2]
11. Speaker
at Haverford College meeting: "We
are complicit."
57 . Unidentified
speaker at Haverford College Quaker Meeting: "No
matter how desolate the World Trade Center site was, there was a place
even more desolate—Afghanistan."
Pomona
[2]
26. Pomona
College, faculty panel discussing U.S. obligations in the Mideast: "[B]reak
the cycle of violence."
27. Jerry
Irish, professor of religious studies, Pomona College: "We
have to learn to use courage for peace instead of war."
Hunter
College [2]
66. "Recycle plastic,
not violence."—poster
at Hunter College
67. Jack
Kyung, student, Hunter College: "A
lot of people are saying we created this monster. What goes around comes
around. People are forgetting about the past."
NYU
[2]
68. Todd
Gitlin, professor of communications, New York University: "There
is a lot of skepticism about the administration's policy of going to war."
65. "Our grief is not
a cry for war."—poster
at New York University
University
of Texas – Austin [2]
94 . Clement
Henry, professor of government, University of Texas – Austin: "The
United States policies toward the region , especially over the past 10
years (have) engendered serious griev-ances. Our actions were looking to
much of Arab and Muslim public opinion like a re-edition of 19th century
imperialism."
95. Robert
Jensen, professor of journalism, University of Texas–Austin : "My
anger on this day is directed not only at indi-viduals who engineered the
September 11 tragedy but at those who have held power in the United States
and have engineered attacks on civilians every bit as tragic." "[The terrorist
attack] was no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism … that
the U.S. government has committed during my lifetime."
Wesleyan
[2]
38. Douglas
J. Bennet, President, to Students, Alumni, Parents and Friends of Wesleyan:
"…
Disparities and injustices are there, all the more intolerable because
they are embedded in some of the most fundamental aspects of our society
and the world we live in. Addressing these disparities and injustices will
not be possible if the world community continues to block its own progress
and destroy its people in conflicts generated by prejudice and hatred.
In this time of crisis, we have an unusual opportunity to see past stereotypes,
identify and diminish our own prejudices, and expe-rience a complex world
through the sensitivities of others.…"
71. Sarah
Norr, junior at Wesleyan University: "For
this to turn into an excuse to have a war and kill more people, it seemed
like it would just be too horrible."
Duke
[2]
88. Duke
University shuts down a
faculty member website after he promotes vigorous military action as a
response to terrorist attacks. After public upro a r, the University reinstates
the website but insists that the faculty member add a disclaimer that the
views expressed in the article do not reflect the view of the University.
Duke has never before required any such disclaimer.
21. Kathryn
Duke, student, Duke University and columnist for The Chronicle: "The
words 'freedom,' 'liberty,' and 'democracy' are great words. But when they
are used by the media to summon a nationalism so potentially destructive
as that being bred now—the sight of the flag burning would be preferable
to me to its display across America, across the hearts of Americans."
One:
30 Schools, 30 Items
One
or More: 48 Schools, 115 Items
One
Each
103. Group
at Amherst College: "The
United States of America is built upon a history of violence and repression.
This began with the genocide of Native Americans who inhabited this land
before the arrival of European colonizers and it continued as Black people
were brought here as slaves to provide the labor necessary for the country's
development. … The construction and maintenance of America depends on the
marginalization and exploitation of those excluded."
90. Jennie
Traschen, professor of physics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst on
Sept. 10: "[The American
flag is] a symbol of terrorism and death and fear and destruction and oppression."
20. The University
of Massachusetts grants
a permit for a student rally to protest any use of force in waging the
war against terrorism. The University revokes a permit allowing a rally
in support of America's policy. The students hold the rally and materials
are vandalized with impunity.
28. Sunera
Thobani, assistant professor of women's studies, University of British
Columbia: "[The U.S. Government
is] the most dangerous global force [with a] foreign policy … soaked in
blood. [War against Afghanistan is] patriarchal racist violence."
24. Chairman
of the College of Holy Cross Department of Sociology demands
that a secretary remove an American flag hung in memory of her friend Todd
Beamer. She refuses and the Chairman removes the flag himself. After unfavorable
publicity, the College apologizes but the flag is moved to the Department
of Psychology.
81. Christopher
Phelps, professor of history, Ohio State University: "[I
am] wary of wars framed for freedom, which in general have produced the
exact opposite effect. … [D]uring the cold war, the 'Communist menace'
became the basis for hyster-ical McCarthyist attacks on civil liberties."
82. David
P. Barash, professor of psychology, University of Washington: "[M]any
people consider the United States to be a terrorist state."
83. Joel
Beinin, professor, Stanford University: "If
Osama Bin Laden is confirmed to be behind the attacks, the United States
should bring him before an international tribunal on charges of crimes
against humanity."
99 . Haunani-Kay
Trask, professor of Hawaiian studies, University of Hawaii: "The
United States is angry because somebody came back and blew up their World
Trade Center. I would be angry, too. But what made them do that? It is
the his-tory of terrorism that the United States unleashes against native
people all over the world. … Everywhere, the United States has overthrown
leftist government. Everywhere, the United States has overthrown native
governments. Why should we support the United States, whose hands in history
are soaked with blood?"
117. At Williams
College, a student organizes
a public recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in honor of a Williams
graduate who died in the September 22 attack. President Morton Schapiro
urges the entire university to attend. Over two hundred students as well
as maintenance and cafeteria staff attend. Only two faculty appear: the
president and head of the Art Department.
9. Lehigh
University vice provost
bans the American flag on the University bus on the grounds that it is
insensitive to foreign students. After a public outcry, the University
retracts the policy.
31. San
Diego State formally accuses
an international student of abusive behavior and warns that "future incidents
[will result in] serious disciplinary sanctions" when the student takes
issue with students who cheer the terrorist attacks.
93. Florida
Gulf Coast Dean of Library Services Kathleen Hoeth instructs
her employees to remove stickers saying "Proud to be an American" on the
grounds that they may offend inter-national students. After public pressure,
President William Merwin revokes the policy.
101. Orange
Coast Community College suspends
Professor Kenneth W. Hearlson after several Muslim students complain they
were called terrorists when Hearlson lectured that silence on crimes against
Christians and Jews in the Middle East was consent to terrorism.
102. Administrator
at Central Michigan University tells
stu-dents to remove patriotic posters (an American flag, eagle) from their
dormitory on the grounds that they are "offensive."
87. Penn
State University Vice Provost informs
a faculty member that his web page advocating military action against t
e rrorists is "insensitive and perhaps even intimidating." "Intimidating"
expression is grounds for dismissal at Penn State. Penn State President
Graham Spanier later denies that the use of the term "intimidating" in
any manner chilled the professor's free speech.
50. David
Coleman, student, University of Oklahoma: "[I]ntolerance
breeds hate, hate breeds violence and violence breeds death, destruction
and heartache."
116. Johns
Hopkins Dean Stephen Szabo demands
a written apology and removes professor Charles H. Fairbanks from his position
as director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute as unfit after Fairbanks
supports an aggressive campaign against states that harbor terrorists and
bets "a Koran" that his analysis is correct. After a public outcry, the
dean reverses his decision.
89. Jim
Casteleiro, freshman at Oberlin College: "War
created people like Osama bin Laden, and more war will create more people
like him."
96. Josh
Timmerle, student, Oxnard College: "I'll
pretend I'm gay. I'm against war. It's scary."
109. Carmen
Candia, senior at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service: "The
United States has to realize that what it's doing with its foreign policy
is just as bad, at least, as what happened last week [Sept. 11]."
62 . Faculty
forum on alternative to war, Washington University of St. Louis: "[T]he
United States would have done the right thing [by not going to war]: responding
as a responsible member of the international community rather than as a
vigilante gunslinger in the old West, riding out to capture the bad guys
and bring them back dead or alive." *
[Note: It's unclear if this was said by a faculty member, only that this
was a faculty forum.]
49. Wasima
Alikhan, Islamic Academy of Las Vegas: "[I]gnorance
breeds hate."
34. Howard
Zinn, professor emeritus, Boston University: "[O]ur
security can only come by using our national wealth, not for guns, planes,
and bombs, but for the health and welfare of our people, and for people
suffering in other countries."
63. Barbara
Corrado Pope, professor emerita of women's studies, University of Oregon:
"[W]e
need to hear more than one perspective on how we can make the world a safer
place. We need to understand the reasons behind the terrifying hatred directed
against the United States and find ways to act that will not foment more
hatred for generations to come."
51. "Hate breeds hate."—sign
at University of Maryland
23. Verdell
DeYarman at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee protest: "It
disturbs me to see all the flags out supporting the slaughter."
25. Adam
Goldstein, former Campus Relations Committee chairman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
in a letter-to-the-editor in the Badger Herald: "…before
you preach at us about the evil terrorists, why don't you try getting your
facts straight and face up to the reality that our leaders are war criminals
just as much as people like Hitler, Stalin, and other monsters of the 20
th century."
13. Barbara
Foley, professor of English, Rutgers University: "[W]e
should be aware that, whatever its proximate cause, its ultimate cause
is the fascism of U.S. foreign policy over the past many decades."
14. Richard
Berthold, professor of history, University of New Mexico: "Anyone
who can blow up the Pentagon gets my vote." Berthold later apologized for
making the comment.
Indeterminate
53. Ivy
League student: "What you
have to look at is the under-lying reasons. Poverty breeds resentment and
resentment breeds anger."
Multiple
75. "Students
at several colleges walked
out of classes and held p rotests Monday in response to U.S. military actions
in Afghanistan. The rallies—at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, the University
of California at Berkeley, and Wesleyan University—attracted hundreds of
students although many students did not attend or held counter-protests
backing the government's response to last month's terrorist attacks."