How have student protests changed since the 1960s?
Fundamentally, student protests haven’t changed in 900 years. The students of the University of Paris have been doing it for almost an millennium. As long as there have been universities, there have been self-righteous, idealistic, simple-minded, passionate, conceited, judgmental, sophomoric “students” with too much time on their hands getting themselves worked up into an outrage about something – usually manifesting in mere obnoxious demonstrations, often spilling over into minor vandalism or lowgrade acts of assault and intimidation against and from bystanders and targets, occassionally breaking into all out riots – more often than not the result of just deepseeded animosity between towny-boys and university-boys that was just looking for an excuse to explode into a brawl, and from a brawl to a riot.
