Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ) members faced an unusual choice of on-bus entertainment as they travelled back from the New York anti-war rally on Saturday. The bus driver, who some members believe was “probably pretty hostile” toward the anti-war movement, put on a video for the peacenik passengers. Settling back for some light entertainment, the Harvard protesters were dismayed to find that said driver’s choice was none other than a classic piece of “might is right” American cultural imperialism, Air Force One. After facing problems with the bus slowing to a near-halt on the way down to New York earlier the same day—causing the group to almost miss the rally—tired and worn-out HIPJ members had only the strength to be wearily amused by the Harrison Ford action flick. “A heroic president fighting an evil world single-handedly,” said HIPJ member Abigail S. Miller ’05, “is definitely not the choice [of film] I would have made.”
