Opinions differ on the effectiveness
While the protest of many college age students raged across the country opinions differed in many of the protest. We can see this in The Campus Canopy and The VSC Spector is that the opinions of the protest and their methods were called into question. With such a large amount of the population of young adults protesting or joining the war, what is created is a very fractured look into how people reacted on both sides to the protest. The people who were serving also in the military at the time also voiced their ideas and opinions on the matter in letters to the newspaper. The methods used in the protest were called also into question by the other protesters showing that many did not like how some would push the extreme in what they would do to protest against the Vietnam war. While others talked about how the protesters had become demoralized because they were not creating any visible effect on the government's policy with the protest.
G.I. Speaks out
Posted in The Campus Canopy November 5, 1965, issue page three. Private First Class (P.F.C) Courtland Fisher letter to the Canopy writer Bob Grondahl talks about how he views that the people who are protesting the war do not understand that they are fighting for ideals and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Protestors go to far
Posted in The Campus Canopy November 19, 1965, issue page two written by Sheila McCoy. In this article McCoy talks about how the demonstration in front of the Pentagon led to a minster from the Society of Friends to burn himself alive alongside another person who burned themselves Infront of the United Nations. McCoy calls for that rational thoughts and actions do not need to be replaced with self-destructive acts in that the acts of suicide leads to the protest to be seen with scorn and defeats the purpose.
Disheartening protestors
Posted in The VSC Spectator November 11, 1971, issue page two in letters to the editor. In this letter to the editor, the topic of the protest marches and how they have started to be seen in a negative light is that they have failed. The protests had failed to stop the war in Vietnam and now the renewed bombings of Indochina under Nixon began. The protests are unpopular for the same reason Vietnam is in that they keep lasting longer and longer and have been happening for so long people have begun to see them as ineffective and meaningless.
