The speed of the antiwar mobilization has struck some longtime college presidents. “Students are engaging very, very quickly with Iraq,” said Nancy Dye, the president of Oberlin College. “This morning I was struck by a very large sign on top of an academic building, saying, `Say No to War in Iraq.’ A new student organization has gotten itself together, and I don’t even know if they have a name yet. There wasn’t anything like this during the first gulf war, when I was president at Vassar.”