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Clarence Page: Campus protests carry echoes of five decades ago

As pro-Palestinian protests, along with some arrests, have spread to colleges across the country in recent days, I have a feeling akin to what Yogi Berra is said to have called “deja vu all over again.”

I’ve seen this rodeo before. We’re a long way from Vietnam and more than a half-century from the military draft that probably galvanized more young war resisters than any other single issue.

By Friday, pro-Palestinian protests had expanded to college campuses across the U.S.

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