February 03, 2005 (vol. 115, iss. 73) • Page Image 4
… MANAGED BY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SINCE 1890 420 MAYNARD STREET ANN ARBOR, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com NOTABLE QUOTABLE We've been a black eye on the landscape of America for too…
…'ve seen Jews and Arabs playing hacky sack in the cen- ter of Tel-Aviv, enjoyed coffee from hospitable strangers while lost in Majdal Krum and wit- nessed Naomi Chazon and Yasir Abid Rabo share a joke. I…
… day I was conversing with a Mich- igan alum from the 1960s. He asked me if there still were a number of student activists advocat- ing the workers' revolution. I told him that prac- tically no students…
… continued to sow the seeds of revolution among the proletariat. To my great surprise, the alum - a venture capitalist - responded that it was unfortunate students no longer took such a bold and ideal stance…
…. I stared at him, dumbfounded, wondering why a venture capitalist would lament on the student activists' acquiescence to capitalism, when it hit me and I too felt some sadness. The venture capitalist…
… utopian politic like discussing the world. For the express purpose of bettering humanity, students actively sought a social and ethical responsibility to each other and the world at large. Students rallied…
… together around grand ideals and then acted locally to protest injustices and raise awareness. Then somewhere further along the way these students married, were employed, had children and the zeal for…
… saddened the students of the 1960s seemingly abandoned their idealistic utopian politics for the status quo. The baby boom generation's forfeiture of divisive ideologues and pragmatic piecemeal legalistic…





