[1401] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Walkout & 14,000 signatures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kelly N. Zimmerman)
Wed Mar 12 11:12:25 2003
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:28:43 -0500
From: "Kelly N. Zimmerman" <knz@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200303121311.IAA09214@che-master.merit.edu>
The Tech mentioned this and the walkout thing yesterday--- I'm confused,
though--
What happens if professors walk out of class when they have students that
won't otherwise walk out? The article mentioned that classes will be
rescheduled-- what if those students can't make the rescheduled classes?
Will they be penalized?
Also, I thought the point of a walkout was "I believe in this, so I'm
sacrificing something important, knowing that I might have to face
consequences, but that's ok because I really believe in this." If the
professors are being urged to not penalize students that walk out, then it
becomes "I believe in this, but I'm not willing to sacrifice anything, but
I still really belive in this." Maybe I missed the point of a walkout...
And, what's with the disrupting classes for the walkout? Do students who
don't believe in the walkout (which is not necessarily because they don't
believe that this war is wrong) have to be penalized by way of disruption
of a several hundred dollar class (I remember Prof. Sadoway calculated how
much each class is worth...)?
Kelly ;)
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> Wednesday, March 12, 2003
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> 14,000 Academics and Writers Sign Statement Opposing
> Threatened U.S. Invasion of Iraq
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> By ROBIN WILSON
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> Fourteen thousand intellectuals -- most of them academics --
> have signed a statement that appeared as an advertisement in
> The New York Times on Tuesday condemning a possible U.S. war
> with Iraq.
>
> The ad says: "On the eve of battle, 14,000 U.S. writers,
> academics and other intellectuals say NO TO WAR." It calls
> waging war at this time "morally unacceptable," and says: "No
> compelling evidence has been offered of an imminent threat to
> our security that would justify the use of military force."
>
> Joshua Cohen, chairman of the political-science department at
> the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, coordinated the ad
> campaign and collected the signatures via a Web site.
>
> Mr. Cohen, who is co-editor of Boston Review, a political and
> literary magazine, said that 90 to 95 percent of those who
> signed the document are professors. They include Eric Chivian,
> an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard
> University who won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, Edward W. Said,
> a university professor at Columbia University, and Elaine
> Scarry, a professor of English at Harvard. Writers, medical
> doctors, pastors, and peace activists also signed, including
> the writers Nora Ephron and Susanna Kaysen and the activist
> Gloria Steinem.
>
> Although the advertisement does not list all 14,000 names,
> they are available online at the magazine's Web site.
>
> Mr. Cohen said professors had donated the $50,000 it cost to
> place the ad. He decided to start an online petition last
> month when a foreign academic e-mailed him about the possible
> war and asked: "Where are the American intellectuals on this?"
> Said Mr. Cohen: "I knew there were a lot of people opposed to
> the war and doing stuff about it. But there wasn't a
> sufficiently strong presence [among intellectuals] on the
> issue."
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