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U.S. scholars make anti-war voices on campus as students keep silence (2) |
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10:07, July 06, 2007 |
Linda Bilmes, a Harvard University public policy professor who was an assistant secretary of commerce in the Clinton administration, also addressed the teach-in and expressed her frustration about the lack of student protests against the war.
Bilmes has co-written a study that estimates the Iraq war will cost more than 1 trillion dollars, far more than the Bush administration''s projections.
"Why are the campuses not overflowing with students saying, '' What is going on here?'' One answer is we are not seeing the true cost of the war," she said.
Mark Rudd, a leader of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the violent Weather Underground in the 1960s, said many of today''s students oppose the war but lack organizing skills and the belief that they can make a difference.
Rudd, who taught math at a community college in New Mexico for 25 years before retiring in December, said that a lot of students on campus are against the war, but they don''t know what to do.
But Rudd said he is optimistic that students will become more organized as the war continues, noting that students on many campuses have begun forming new chapters of SDS.
Source: Xinhua
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