Ditching for Saddam [few students protested, press lied - again]

WSJ -Opinion Journal, Best of the Web Today E-mail | Mar. 6, 2003 | JAMES TARANTO

[Salman]

" ... the biggest campus demonstrations since the Vietnam War,"

Parse Clintonwise. This may be literally true. Let's hope it stays that way.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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.

We so outnumber them. AJ

[Cicero]

This is exactly what I thought. As I said on a couple of threads last week, I was at NYU and I saw NO protestors and hardly any posters or leaflets. It was a complete non-event. During the later Vietnam years, NYU was in overdrive. People firebombed the library, students came into class with broken legs after jumping out of windows, professors were haranguing the squirrels in the park, faculty were voting not to give grades . . . you name it.

This time around, nothing. And this despite the fact that numerous left-wing and Trotskyite organizations are in the area ready and willing to make trouble about matters like this.

[PackerBoy]

Penn State is an aberration. But their basketball team sucks this year and, besides, there is nothing else to do in that friggin' town other than get together and bitch.

[js1138]

Statistics not available for the University of Florida due to normal ditching rate of 75.3%.

[Salvation]

Here's the column I like"

% of students not protesting 96.20% 97.97% 99.47% 95.64% 99.16% 99.36% 99.99% 93.00% 99.46% 98.67% 99.71%

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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.)

ROTFL!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

LOL! That low? (^;

[Kay Ludlow]

LOL! My daughter was on campus at the time and didn't notice anything different! My guess is the number participating was seriously exagerrated.

[Paleo Conservative]

At Texas A&M, about two dozen students, faculty and community members demonstrated peacefully for several hours with signs, folk music, speeches and readings from the Greek play Lysystrata, in which women withhold sex from their men fighting in a war.

Source: HoustonChronicle.com

College	Enrollment	# of Protesters	% of students not protesting
Texas A&M University	44,618	24	99.95%

[kcvl]

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for that report. Where can we go to box the ears of an AP "peacenik" promoter/journalist?

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[Paleo Conservative]

Texas A&M University 99.95% not protesting!

Hell the numbers were so small the Houston Chronicle had to include professors in the count.

[timestax]

WOW, we must FAX this to news departments of T.V., newspapers, etc. so they know that we are putting out the truth!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

(^: Who knew? Those mainstream pens are far too mighty for this nonsense. From the same Opinion Journal E-mail:

His Views Are So Radical, We Don't Even Know

" 'Mr. Estrada holds positions that are extreme in their nature, that are ultra-far-right in terms of judicial interpretation,' said Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle."--Bloomberg News dispatch, March 6

"Daschle said he's confident that Democrats can continue to block action until the White House provides memos from Estrada's service in the Justice Department that would show his legal views."--same dispatch.

Young people know a liar lie when they hear one.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Lysystrata...

It's always the faculty. Michael Medved had a good time with the Lysystrata leaders...told them the war resumed and destroyed the city a few years later. (^:

[LiteKeeper]

Go Aggies!!

[Tamzee]

Thank you for this!! What a spirit lifter!!

Go, Wall Street Journal :-)

[RaceBannon]

Now, this is a GOOD find!!