Havel is indeed an extraordinary person, and this article presents him admirably, but view its ending arguments skeptically. I was a student at Columbia Univesity during Havels stay, and the author distorts the Columbia studentry perception of Havel to illicit a false argument. A great number of students knew of Vaclav Havels accomplishments, and we were all clamouring to hear his lectures, speeches, and panel discussions. Getting tickets to hear his lectures and discussions were nearly impossible, too many students signed up for every one of his events, making it necessary for the school to allocate tickets on a lottery selection scheme. Despite popular opinion, not all college students are stereotypical stalinists planning a communist takeover of the government while we sit in our dorms underneath our Che Guevara posters listening to the Dixie Chicks croon over our itunes.
