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1 posted on 03/09/2003 7:21:00 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
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" ... the biggest campus demonstrations since the Vietnam War,"

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

2 posted on 03/09/2003 7:27:09 PM PST by Salman
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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

3 posted on 03/09/2003 7:30:32 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl ( "The Internet is a frightful danger to all of us.'' - Walter Cronkite)
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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.
4 posted on 03/09/2003 7:30:40 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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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.
5 posted on 03/09/2003 7:31:01 PM PST by PackerBoy
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Statistics not available for the University of Florida due to normal ditching rate of 75.3%.
6 posted on 03/09/2003 7:31:35 PM PST by js1138
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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%

7 posted on 03/09/2003 7:34:25 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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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%

11 posted on 03/09/2003 7:44:13 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (This space left intentionally blank.)
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WOW, we must FAX this to news departments of T.V., newspapers, etc. so they know that we are putting out the truth!
15 posted on 03/09/2003 7:51:07 PM PST by timestax
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Thank you for this!! What a spirit lifter!!

Go, Wall Street Journal :-)
19 posted on 03/09/2003 8:36:12 PM PST by Tamzee (There are 10 types of people... those who read binary, and those who don't.)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; kdf1; AMERIKA; Lancey Howard; MudPuppy; SMEDLEYBUTLER; opbuzz; Snow Bunny; ...
Now, this is a GOOD find!!
20 posted on 03/09/2003 8:37:54 PM PST by RaceBannon
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21 posted on 03/09/2003 11:14:39 PM PST by Cindy
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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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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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