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A deer dance on a moving train: examining protest and authority at SUNY New Paltz
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Vermeulen, Karla
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Spring 2025
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2025-05
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This thesis serves as a small snapshot of the political atmosphere at SUNY New Paltz and the
resulting reactions to the authority figures at the helms of our federal government and of the
school itself. It’s an exploration of how our campus community continues to grapple with the
emotional, political, and institutional fallout of that day. Through personal experiences and
interviews with eleven students and faculty I traced the feelings of anxiety, distrust, empathy,
and unity in the months since the encampment. Rather than assign blame, I aim to document and
amplify the voices of those who lived through it. Inspired by Howard Zinn’s You Can’t Be
Neutral on a Moving Train, this thesis considers how New Platz students navigated protest and
authority during a time of national upheaval through a disaster psychology lens to identify the
emotional stages that the community is currently in
Keywords: Psychology, Disaster Psychology, SUNY New Paltz, student protest, campus
activism, civil unrest, Howard Zinn, political anxiety, Donald Trump, student voice, unity,
empathy.
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