July 13, 2001

Different Causes for Student Protests

To the Editor:

As someone supportive of many current student movements, including those aimed at economic justice and issues of globalization and at antiracist actions, I was very disturbed by Alan Wolfe's essay ("When Students Protest, Questions of Justice Are Not Always Equal," The Review, June 8). To be blunt, I found it racist and colonial. It argues that the (white) living-wage protesters at Harvard University had a more-valid and better-conducted campaign than the protesters at

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