LONDON (Reuters) - Luton Town boss Rob Edwards said the Premier League was 'just a bit too much' for his side after a 3-1 loss away at West Ham United on Saturday all but sealed his team's relegation.
Columbia University students sit in at Hamilton Hall on April 23, 1968. In 1968, Columbia waited a comparatively long time before bringing in law enforcement to dismantle a student uprising over Columbia’s ties to the defense industry and the war in Vietnam . — Filepic/©2024 The New York Times Company
That, in turn, has thrust the protests squarely into the polarised politics of the land, with politicians and pundits on the right portraying the encampments as dangerous manifestations of antisemitism and wokeness and demanding that they be razed – and many university administrations calling in the police to do just that.
The counterargument, of course, is that without decorum and calm, the educational process is disrupted, and so it is proper and necessary for administrations to impose order. But disruption is not the only byproduct; protests can also shape and enhance education: a disproportionate number of those who rose up at Columbia in 1968 went into social service of some sort, fired by the idealism and faith in change that underpinned their protests and by the broader social movement of the ’60s.
The Black sit-in quickly galvanised students from all the other social and political causes of that turbulent era – a war that was killing scores of American boys and countless Vietnamese every week, racism that just weeks earlier took the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr and, yes, a celebration of flower power and love. The gym issue at Columbia was quietly resolved, but by then, other students were occupying several buildings.
The classic account of Columbia ’68, “The Strawberry Statement,” a wry, punchy diary by an undergraduate, James Simon Kunen, who participated in the protests, captures the confused welter of causes, ideals, frustrations and raw excitement of that spring. That’s the similarity. Just as students then could no longer tolerate the horrific images of a distant war delivered, for the first time, in almost real time by television, so many of today’s students have found the images from the Gaza Strip, now transmitted instantly onto their phones, to demand action.
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