The notion of student protest perceived as an essential element of higher education, as presented in Serge Schmemann’s article (“Student protest an essential element of higher education,” Star-Advertiser, Insight, May 1) is intriguing — seeing disruption as a byproduct that also shapes and enhances education. Long engendered both by feelings of shame and an extension of the educational process, discourse and debate of issues, there was a rise in social service, idealism and faith in change.
Protests are almost certain to continue dividing Democrats and serve as fodder for former President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers.
To the editor: The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is that good people do nothing. Students peacefully protesting have been arrested by the busload and risk academic and professional consequences. ("To find masked mob members who attacked UCLA camp, police are using Jan. 6 tactics," May 7) Conversely, masked "agitators" were given a hall pass to violently attack people for hours with zero arrests. Students peacefully protesting are reacting to the heartbreaking images of this horrific...
To the editor: In May 1967 I was finishing my surgical internship in New York City when I was drafted into the military. I spent 10 days at Camp Pendleton and was then flown to Vietnam, where I became a Marine Corps battalion surgeon. ("Don't denigrate pro-Palestinian campus protests by claiming the Vietnam War protests backfired," Opinion, May 3) When I returned to California in 1968, the antiwar protests were all the rage. If I was seen on public streets in my uniform, I was pointed out and in...
It is ironic that the college anti-Israel protesters feel they have a right to protest and illegally occupy land they do not own.
Done right and distributed properly, a protest song can scare the crap out of authoritarians and dictators. Last week, a Hong Kong court ordered that a song called “Glory to Hong Kong” has
Drivers are losing sight of the purpose of turning right after stop. The primary purpose is to stop and let pedestrians cross, and to yield to cars with the green light. It appears to me that many drivers are now thinking they automatically have the right of way to turn right after stopping, if they stop at all.
To the editor: Don't invoke, as Seth Greenland does, solemn Holocaust remembrance to tar the college protesters as antisemitic and privileged. Rather, acknowledge the difference between 1,200 Israeli victims of Hamas terror on Oct. 7 and the more than 34,000 dead Palestinians in Gaza since then. Remember the Israeli bombardment underway in Rafah, a final killing field in what had been the last refuge for Palestinians fleeing the destroyed north. Student protesters see war crimes happening in...
To the editor: Clearly, the tragedy that has befallen the people of the Gaza Strip and Israel is nothing to be mocked. It is a serious and troubling situation. But the protesters have invited mockery. ("Mocking Gaza protesters as 'gluten-free warriors' was fun — until a mob at UCLA attacked them," column, May 3) Let's review: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators wore masks from the outset — and yes that is cowardly — as some were reported to have blocked Jewish students on the UCLA campus. This isn't...
Tiffany Haddish unloaded on campus protesters across the country who are speaking out about the war in the Middle East -- and she's doubling down offering up other solutions. The comedian was in NYC Monday, where we caught her in the street for…
Nipped it in the bud I have never been more proud to be an Albertan. As campuses around the country are paralyzed in ‘inclusive’ fear, as antisemitic euphemisms and encampments expand, our province’s major universities have nipped this medieval ‘progressiveness’ in the bud. Both the U of C and the U of A quickly shut […]
Resolutely European young people brave violent repression to loudly reject ‘foreign agents’ law and alignment with MoscowMariska Iurevicz’s mother has been crying a lot recently. “She is always asking when I’ll be home”, the 22-year-old says. “I think we are feeling the same. We are nervous and some of us feeling unsafe. But we are very strong. We will do everything to change the situation.”Iurevicz, a philosophy student at the TSU State University in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, belongs to...