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Regarding "Economic crisis may impact graduate student funding," (Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008)
The headline on your story about Monday's meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC ...
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Amen, Rivka!!
Thanks to Provost Eisgruber for putting things into perspective -- it's a very helpful note. Cheers.
Rivka has a good point. It's awfully hard to have an accurate representation of any conflict of this kind in the form of a campus protest.
I think this letter misses the point of the protest: To raise awareness for an issue most Americans are nearly completely unaware of, in a visible, memorable, and HARMLESS way. The situation in Israel and Palestine is of course extremely complicated, on all sides - but I don't think the protest was simplifying it, or even promoting any specific interpretation. Rather, I think it was pointing out one facet of the situation that I, at least, was unaware of. This was not an anti-Israel protest, and I don't think it's fair or reasonable to respond as if it were. Comparing it to a mock terrorist attack is unjust, as such an action would be harmful to all Princeton students, and represent the actions of the few as the beliefs of the many - things which this protest did not in any way do.