College protests over Gaza conflict won't amount to much | Letters

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Students began setting up an encampment on the Miami University campus Thursday night, May 2, 2024, as part of a protest to "show solidarity and demand the university disclose and divest its funds from the extremist Israeli genocide of Palestinians."
Students began setting up an encampment on the Miami University campus Thursday night, May 2, 2024, as part of a protest to "show solidarity and demand the university disclose and divest its funds from the extremist Israeli genocide of Palestinians."

Miami University students are protesting the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, and that makes me think back to the time when a friend asked, "What happened to us?" The current college campus protests seem eerily similar to what my friend and I remember from back in the anti-Vietnam War days. Yes, passions are inflamed. Yes, some students are seriously demonstrating and getting arrested. Classes cancelled and education disrupted. Yes to all that. But what will it all mean in the future, that is, what’ll happen? Not much. Despite the passions du jour, most of us don’t really change in any fundamental way.

Jerry Galvin, Mount Lookout

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Protests at Miami University, US colleges over Gaza won't change much