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Originally Posted by Hugh Cow
Sorry, my mistake, I thought university was meant to be a place one can practice freedom of speech not just a talk fest for the politically correct.
Oh sure, that's the idealistic view but Berkeley has always been a hotbed of left wing politics and you find some very committed people there.
All of this brings back the sixties for me when I was a student at the UW Madison, Wisconsin. It was the time of the war in Viet Nam and there were lots of protests about Dow Chemical, ROTC and the Cambodian incursion. People made their protests very visible so they registered on the collective American psyche. The involvement of student activists helped raise the consciousness of the country about the immorality of the war and helped bring it to an end. Universities can be a place for reason and logic but also activism.