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Ditching for Saddam [few students protested, press lied - again]
WSJ -Opinion Journal, Best of the Web Today E-mail | Mar. 6, 2003 | JAMES TARANTO

Posted on 03/09/2003 7:21:00 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl

Best of the Web Today - March 6, 2003

By JAMES TARANTO

Ditching for Saddam
"High school and college students across the country walked out of class Wednesday to protest a war with Iraq, holding a series of rallies organizers predicted would be the biggest campus demonstrations since the Vietnam War," the Associated Press reports. We compared reports of the number of protesting students to the enrollment figures in the Information Please Almanac and came up with this table:

College
Enrollment
# of Protesters
% of students
not
protesting
Stanford University
7,886
300
96.20%
University of Maryland
24,638
500
97.97%
Marquette University
7,496
40
99.47%
Penn State University
34,406
1,500
95.64%
Miami University (Ohio)
14,914
125
99.16%
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
15,608
100
99.36%
Virginia Commonwealth University
16,505
2
99.99%
Rice University
2,856
200
93.00%
New York University
18,628
100
99.46%
University of California (Berkeley)
22,593
300
98.67%
Rutgers University
27,939
80
99.71%
(Sources: Information Please Almanac, AP, CNN, Daily Californian, Daily Targum)

The New York Times reports that an Arkansas-based protest organizer, Andy Burns of the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, "received a panicked call from five middle school students in Los Angeles who were the only ones who had left their classrooms and were now hiding from administrators in a school restroom. (His advice to them: call the American Civil Liberties Union.)"

The overwhelming number of students staying away from these protests makes clear that the vast majority of America's young people favor the liberation of Iraq. So if you're a pro-war collegian, what can you do to make your views known? Drink beer, says Joshua Claybourn of the Hoosier Review. This Friday and Saturday night, Claybourn reports, supporters of the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition "will go to bars and watering holes in solidarity with students across the country, to show our support for the war on Iraq. All students drinking and having fun at bars on March 7th and 8th will of course be celebrating their freedom to take part in such an act--freedoms not afforded to the youth of Iraq."

Our own college days are long past, but you may rest assured we will be raising a glass in solidarity tomorrow night.

OpinionJournal@wsj.com



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ap; ericaltermanlies; leftists; mediabias; propaganda
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
"ARE THEY FOR US OR AGAINST US?" (Updated Daily - Click Here.)

21 posted on 03/09/2003 11:14:39 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; Salvation
To really get an accurate reflection we should see how many students will skip school to support the war. I would expect more students than thse numbers would skip class for any reason, just to miss class.
22 posted on 03/10/2003 12:13:41 AM PST by nickcarraway
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bump
23 posted on 03/10/2003 4:57:54 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: RaceBannon
Hummmm........

Using the media's logic, the last pro-war, pro-Bush rally we had in downtown Houston shut the city down as people poured into the streets to give support.

There were three of us.

24 posted on 03/10/2003 5:18:38 AM PST by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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To: Cindy
Wow, Cindy!

What a find!
25 posted on 03/10/2003 7:23:21 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation
re Post No.25: "Wow, Cindy! What a find!"

You're absolutely right Salvation --- "With God all things are possible."
26 posted on 03/10/2003 1:50:15 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Screw Penn State. From now on, "Happy Valley" is "Commie Valley" in my book.
27 posted on 03/10/2003 7:00:34 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (The "Anti-War Leaders" Have Blood On Their Hands, look and you'll find, they are NOT anti-war)
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