By Quentin Guinn I giggled to myself when my German instructor recently told me that she did not think there was much political protesting at Yale. The fact that my instructor is new to Yale probably explains her remark. Nevertheless, I have never seen more protesting than I have witnessed at Yale.
Students seem willing to protest just about anything.
I particularly remember the Haitian crisis because one graduate student assaulted my character for choosing not to participate in organized protest against then President George Bush's Haiti policy. The fact that reading period was in full swing seemed irrelevant. With GESO making its case to the administration, new issues can be expected before the year's end. Yale students are not the only source of activism on Yale's campus, however. They seem to believe that Yale students and the Yale faculty actually have the power to stop the drug trade, to end gun violence and unemployment, or even to push through an amendment to the Constitution.