Posted on 12/12/2014 8:30:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
A group of about 30 students attempted to hold a silent demonstration in the first minutes of Primal Scream, a biannual naked run around Harvard Yard,
...
The run is a College tradition in which students, at times inebriated, run naked around the Yard on the eve of the first day of exams.
...
About ten minutes before the intended start of the run at midnight, the group of protesters convened near Harvard Hall on the path encircling the Yard and held signs..
As student streakers began to gather, talking and shouting, just a few yards away, the protesters, some of them clad in black sweatshirts with the words, “I ♥ Black People,” stayed silent. After failing to quiet the students with a megaphone, Khurana was lifted onto the back of a half-naked man, from where Khurana tried to quiet the crowd again.
When the streakers continued to talk, the protesters broke their silence, chanting, “Silence. Silence.” Meanwhile, shouts of “U.S.A., U.S.A.!” erupted from the group of runners, drowning out the calls for silence by the protesters.
...
Addressing the crowd, Walker and Sarah F. Cole ’16, another protester and president of the Black Students Association, expressed frustration that the silent demonstration did not go as planned.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecrimson.com ...
I thought this might have something to do with Howard Dean.
Perhaps it was named in his honor.
White rage is here. In the coming years, it will take many forms.
SHUT UP WHITE TOKENS didn’t work ,LOL
It didn’t work because the students “questioned authority”.
When the streakers continued to talk, the protesters broke their silence, chanting, “Silence. Silence.”
naked privilege??
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Nothing screams silence like a megaphone. Oh God, these kids are stupid.
Very odd. Protestors are supposedly holding a silent demonstration. They insist that others join them in this demonstration.
That’s not at all my understanding of what a silent demonstration is supposed to be.
Sounds like a real Harvard freak show.
Being Harvard folks, they were probably too stupid to grasp the irony of chanting “Silence! Silence!”
Shouting for silence?
Wow. White silence means violence, yet they resent whites who speaking up because they're 'hijacking the narrative', and they resent whites who won't pipe down when they demand they be silent.
Positively schizophrenic.
John Harvard, for whom the university was named, was a preacher of the Gospel.
The university was founded to educate ministers and preachers of the Gospel.
during the hiatus over the silence, one MBA student began collecting the Primal Scream participation fees of $5.00
They were there to intimidate -- not demonstrate.
These are the children of the people running the country . . . into the ground.
The higher the IVY the odder the student.
Reminds me of an unverified but probably true story of an experience in a Boston Coop Grocery; A young adult enters the express (10 or less) line with many more than 10. The clerk, looking at the basket said; “You are either from Harvard and can’t read, or from MIT and can’t count!”
FYI: I visited relatives in Boston recently and was in a large book & media store. When I made a joke about where were the “Banned in Boston” items, the total incomprehension that spread out from that question not only shows the epic change in local morality but also the lack of education in local history.
I like some of their music
Not just Harvard, but many top universities were like Berkeley too began as well until it was handed over only to have liberals overtake it.
So basically the Furgeson protestors are not content with mear protesting, they now want to buzz kill any fun activity of others; tree lighting, Christmas Shopping, caroling, running around Harvard nakid.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.