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[quote=Anonymous]This was not Swarthmore's finest moment; a small minority of students mischaracterized Zoellick's involvement in the Iraq War while ignoring his many years of public service.  Other students then spoke up in defense of Zoellick -- http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2013/04/11/op-ed-open-letter-to-robert-zoellick-75/ -- , but, unfortunately, the damage had been done.  That said, however, OP's whole-cloth dismissal of student activism -- "I thought that was over in the '60s" --is pathetic and un-American: the exercise of free speech through non-violent protest is a fundamental right of all Americans.  Throughout our history such action has galvanized our country to fight injustic and violence.  In the '60s student protestors helped end Jim Crow and the Vietnam War, in the '70s they stirred Americans to accept responsibility for protecting our environment, and in the '80s they pushed colleges and universities to divest their assets in South Africa and thus to help end apartheid.  I hope that our American tradition of speaking out isn't over.     [/quote]

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