#campus-politics

#campus-politics

After repeatedly informing students that they could leave the lecture hall at any time, Kao projected six photographs depicting scenes of protests for Palestine, and began to describe the Israeli assault on Gaza as it had transpired in recent weeks, from his own perspective. He told students that he had been spending his weekends learning about Gaza and the Israeli assault.

Trevor Traina, a tech entrepreneur from San Francisco, attended Princeton University before pursuing advanced degrees from Oxford and UC Berkeley. His son Robby (not his real name) is a varsity athlete with a 4.0 grade point average who is off to college this year-and wants nothing to do with his father's alma maters or, for that matter, any other Ivy League school. Robby chose Wake Forest in North Carolina instead.

Baird's quasi-satirical story emphasizes the tussle between high-mindedness and baser instincts. As a librarian observes, the dictates of reason were no match for the flash of celebrity.