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  • Student troop rally - Columbia event rips anti-war prof!

    04/03/2003 8:16:07 AM PST · by areafiftyone · 87 replies · 344+ views
    Old Glory drapes Columbia University freshman Alexandra Draggett, from Basking Ridge, N.J., and Greg Jones, a sophomore from Englewood, N.J., yesterday at demonstration in front of school's Low LibraryStudents at Columbia University rallied yesterday to support U.S. soldiers in Iraq and blasted a controversial professor who called for the slaughter of coalition troops. Speakers addressing about 250 people, who wore yellow ribbons and waved flags, ripped assistant professor Nicholas De Genova at the rally, at the school's Low Library. De Genova, at an anti-war "teach-in" last week, said he "would like to see a million Mogadishus" - a reference to...
  • Columbia Students Rally For Troops

    04/02/2003 2:35:57 PM PST · by rmlew · 87 replies · 1,259+ views
    AP via Yahoo ^ | April 2, 2003, 2:30 PM EST | DEEPTI HAJELA
    Pro-troops rally at site of historic anti-war demo 27 minutes ago BY DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - Thirty-five years ago this month, the Low Library at Columbia University was the center of a protest storm as about 1,000 people barricaded themselves inside campus buildings for a week to demonstrate against the Vietnam War. On Wednesday, amid a growing backlash over a professor's recent anti-war remarks, the library plaza was home to another rally — this one supporting the coalition waging war in Iraq. Onlookers gathered to watch the speakers at the one-hour rally organized by the campus'...