Vietnam War panel discussion and film stir up anti-war sentiments

Vietnam War panel discussion and film stir up anti-war sentiments

(EXCERPT) by Matthew Dolbey, Campus Editor September 25, 2003

Audience members at the Havens Center panel discussion were treated to
a showing of "The War at Home," a film about the events surrounding
the Vietnam War on the University of Wisconsin campus, Tuesday night.
The panel consisted of activists against the war in Vietnam involved
with the UW during the time of most intense conflict -- the late 1960s
and early 1970s.

The members of the panel included former Madison mayor and former UW
student Paul Soglin, Frank Emspah, former UW professor and visiting
scholar from UCLA Maurice Zeitlin and UW sociology professor Joe
Elder.

One of the main issues the panel took up in front of the eclectic
audience was comparing the decade-long Vietnam conflict with the
current war in Iraq.

According to Zeit...

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