Bleak Futures: Is Despair Also Driving University Protests?

Published on May 9, 2024

Commentary For a moment, put aside the politics of the university student protests. Look back to your own youth. At least in America, rebellion is common. Kids have a lot of pent up energy. Those who go to college are smarter and have more energy than their peers. There always have been “town vs. gown” struggles. In 1355 the St. Scholastica’s Day Riot struck Oxford University. Oxford History records show it involved “the death of 62 Oxford scholars.” Switching to America, in the 1960s and early 1970s, the anti-Vietnam War protests commonly turned into riots, as we have been reminded lately. When President Richard Nixon ended the military draft and pulled all troops out of Vietnam in 1973, the riots ended....

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