Le Mooye: A Reflective Analysis

The bulk of the sources in the Le Moyne archives were either letters written to and from Father Reilly or relevant newspaper articles. It is through Father Reilly’s correspondence that the deep division in the College community is apparent by the very passionate and diverse opinions people held about the war. Reading these was an excellent way to gauge how people felt about the war and the protests on campus and how these opinions of the war resulted from very different worldviews. The newspaper articles, such as the ones about the induction center protests and the editorial by the professors, gave me an idea of how the stories were being presented to the public and made me realize that the media seemed all too likely to create a simple dichotomy to characterize college campuses such as Le Moyne: the anti-war majority versus the Pro-war
The findings in these archives, from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in conjunction with the University of Baltimore and Cornell University respectively, provided some outside information and clarification to issues involving Le Moyne. I read an essay by Father Berrigan explaining why he protested the way he did, burning the draft cards and all, which helped me better understand why he was such a controversial figure. Reading an article from Cornell about the Syracuse induction center protest gave me a better understanding of the events of that day, which was a day long, very organized protest, and demonstrated that, at least Syracuse University and Cornell University, secular universities had similar opinions on the war to Le