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News
February 16,2007
Columbia Univ. students stage Yearbook
walkout to protest Iraq War demand
NEW YORK (AP) - Students
at Columbia University - once a
hotbed of anti-Vietnam protests
- walked out of classes Thursday
to raise their voices against the
war in Iraq.
They joined students across the
country who planned demonstra-
tions against President Bush just
hours after he exhorted NATO
nations to send more troops to
Afghanistan.
"What do we want?" yelled a
Columbia student into a micro-
phone in front of Columbia's
Low Library.
"Stop the war!" responded a
few hundred protesters.
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"When do we want it?" yelled
back the woman at the mike.
"Now!" was the answer.
Some hoisted signs reading
"Give Iraq back" and "Rekindle
the flame of protest" on the Ivy
League campus, where anti-war
sentiment has been prevalent for
decades.
In April 1968, Columbia's Low
Library was the center of a storm
as about 1,000 protesters barri-
caded themselves inside campus
buildings for a week to demon-
strate against the Vietnam War.
Students angered by Colum-
bia's links to an institute that
commissioned military research
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took over five buildings. The re-
bellion quickly became "a hap-
pening," with extensive news
coverage and appearances by
Tom Hay den, Abbie Hoffman, H.
Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael,
William Kunstler, Allen Gins-
berg and the Grateful Dead.
After a week, police were
called and made close to 700 ar-
rests.
On Thursday, a brisk winter
day, more than 200 protesters
showed up for the rally organized
by the newly formed Columbia
Coalition Against the War, which
includes the Internationalist So-
cialist Organization, Students for
Justice in the Middle East and
the Working Families Party.
Rudi Batzell, 20, went first to
his "History of the South" class.
About 15 minutes before the
class was to end, he and several
others walked out - "respectful-
ly," he said, adding that he liked
the professor but had to take his
anti-war stand.
"I think student activism can
play a critical role in the anti-
war movement," Batzell said.
"We can't just wait for 2008 and
a new president to end this unj ust
occupation."
It should not be up to Ameri-
cans "to decide what's best for
Iraqis," he said. "If they want us
gone, we should leave, respect
their sovereignty and democra-
cy." Batzell said it was "racist"
and "colonial" to assume Iraqis
are not capable of governing
themselves.
After the rally, the protesters
marched about a dozen blocks
up Broadway from the Columbia
campus, then headed to a teach-
in at a university hall.
Anti-war rallies also were
planned for more than a dozen
other colleges, including the
University of California in Santa
Barbara, which gets money from
the government for weapons re-
search.
Protests were scheduled at four
other California schools - UC
Berkeley, San Francisco State
University, Sonoma State Uni-
versity and Occidental College -
as well as the University of North
Carolina in Greensboro, and
Chicago's Columbia College.
The protests come amid Con-
gressional debates on whether
to block Bush's proposed boost
of U.S. troops in Iraq, coincid-
ing with the fourth anniversary
of the massive protests staged
in the weeks before Operation
Iraqi Freedom began on March
20, 2003.
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away at UT
AUSTIN (AP) - In its pages lie the
history of a school: the first 10 mem-
bers of the crew team, the hundreds
of students who died while serving
in World War II, the integration of
African American students, the
massacre in the shadow of a tower
and the glory of a Rose Bowl.
The 114-volume Cactus yearbook
has chronicled the history of the Uni-
versity of Texas since the mid-1890s.
But the publication that for so long
has been the keeper of the univer-
sity's history, is now faced with the
prospect of becoming history.
Like college yearbooks across the
country, the Cactus is struggling to
increase sales among students more
likely to memorialize their experi-
ences on Web sites such as Facebook
and MySpace.
The competition is forcing the
Cactus to evolve into something less
personal. This year's volume won't
have student mug shots and will be
more appealing to a general audi-
ence that includes students, alumni
and university sponsors.
The Cactus has been struggling
with sales for the past decade, said
Kathy Lawrence, director of Texas
Student Publications. Last year,
Cactus sales stood at a record low:
about four yearbooks for every 100
students enrolled, down from 28
yearbooks for every 100 students in
1986.
After two years of losing money,
Cactus staff members are concerned
that the Texas Student Media Board
of Directors will close it down. When
the book loses money, the costs are
recouped from the board's general
fund.
"If we don't sell enough books,
Texas Student Media Board might
say to convert (the yearbook) to on-
line or not have a book at all," said
Jocelyn Lai, a UT junior and the
Cactus' advertising manager. At
least 3,000 books must be sold by
April for the Cactus to break even.
Walsworth Publishing and Texas
Student Publications share the cost of
producing the $75 yearbook. Wals-
worth has agreed to help the univer-
sity publish the 2008 edition, which
could cost $90,000 to $130,000.
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