Letter to the Editor: On Protesting Jeff Sessions

To the Amherst College student body, Please know how proud so many of us in the alumni community have been to see the footage of your defiant, peaceful protest of Jeff Sessions. Your actions were in the best tradition of making clear your principled opposition without preventing the speaker from delivering his remarks or the remaining audience from hearing them. Our progressive movement is better off when stupid ideas are allowed to be voiced, rather than enabling our opponents to claim victimh