Thursday, September 20, 2001

Students at 140 Colleges Plan Rallies for Nonviolent Response to Terrorism By DANA MULHAUSER Students have scheduled peace vigils at more than 140 colleges today to urge a nonviolent response to last week's terrorist attacks. At Georgetown University, students will lie down in a central campus courtyard, holding placards with the names of Afghan men and women. "What we're saying is that we don't need to kill any more civilians," said Andrew Milmore, a member of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee. In Boston, nine area colleges will meet at Harvard Yard for a set of speeches and a march through the city. At the University of California at Berkeley, organizers will hand out green armbands in Sproul Plaza. The rallies, called the "National Student Day of Action for Peaceful Justice," were coordinated by students at Wesleyan University. "The nation's political leadership must seek justice rather than revenge in order to avoid the loss of more innocent lives and to work toward a lasting peace," the organizers said in a statement. "We should make a distinction between bringing individual perpetrators to justice and declaring war against an entire country," said Kate M. Levin, a senior at Amherst College. She and other organizers say the United States should attempt to capture those responsible and bring them to trial. If a peaceful trial is not possible, "we're not sure what the alternatives are," Ms. Levin admits. Joined by the student-body president and other organizers, she will be handing out position papers and coordinating a Congressional letter-writing campaign at Amherst today. Among the groups' other priorities are the protection of Muslims and Arabs against racism, and the guarding of civil liberties. Easy-to-print version E-mail this article

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