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YALE COLLEGE STUDENTS TO RALLY IN “SUPPORT OF THE TROOPS”

Yale Students and Faculty to Demonstrate Their Support for the Coalition Forces in Iraq and Around the World, Call for Nationwide Action to Help Military Families

NEW HAVEN, CT, March 23, 2003 – Yale College Students for Democracy (YCSD) will hold a “Support the Troops” rally in Yale’s Hewitt Quadrangle (121 Wall Street) March 26 at 11:30 am.

“This rally provides the opportunity for the Yale Community to express its gratitude for the troops fighting to defend America, liberate Iraq, and secure peace in the region,” said YCSD President Matthew Louchheim. “The men and women who risk their lives and burden their families with their departures abroad deserve our support.”

The rally will feature Yale Professors Donald Kagan, Norma Thompson, and David Gelernter and a number of Yale students, including juniors Louchheim and Michael Anastasio ‘04.

“Our aim is to assemble a broad cross-section of the community to give heart to the warriors of democracy,” said rally organizer and YCSD member Anastasio.

Professor Kagan is the winner of the 2002 National Humanities Medal, the Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University, and former Dean of Yale College. He is the author of The Fall of the Athenian Empire, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace and (co-written with Frederick Kagan) While America Sleeps.

Professor Thompson is Associate Director of the Whitney Humanities Center and Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Yale University. She is the author of The Ship of State and Arion’s Leap: Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community.

Professor Gelernter is Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. He is author of The Muse and the Machine and Machine Beauty. Professor Gelernter is an editor of The National Review and arts editor at The Weekly Standard.

About YCSD

YCSD is a registered undergraduate organization at Yale University dedicated to preserving and fostering democratic ideals throughout the world. Formed to advocate moral clarity and the need for democracies to defend themselves, the group seeks to offer an alternative to the radical movements prevalent on college campuses. For more information, visit http://www.yale.edu/ycsd.

For more information about this event, please contact YCSD.