Protest Accomplished
Harvard associate dean Judith Kidd
changed her mind and decided to allow the Harvard Social Forum to protest on-campus recruiting by the CIA and Department of Homeland Security.
That's the right decision, and not just because she was using a technicality as a pretext for prohibiting the protest. Harvard needs every demonstration of passion and idealism it can get, even if, to some, it may seem misguided. Most Harvard students are obsessively pre-professional and politically apathetic, which is an unfortunate state of affairs at our most important university. Signs of independent thought and conviction, and political engagement with the outside world—whether liberal or conservative—are few and far between. The College should encourage, rather than suppress, them.
I know, that's a pipe dream. So I'll settle for "tolerate."
