Michael Serota ’10 recently wrote an op-ed, published by the Oakland Tribune, urging American students to draw inspiration from their counterparts in Iran. The op-ed, available here, suggests that in the face of current economic and policy challenges in the United States, Americans can channel into their own lives the courage to face adversity seen from televised images of recent Iranian student protests against that country’s Baseej militia. Serota calls those images a powerful reminder that the human spirit “is capable of incredible achievements” and “able to transcend the limits of physical strength or brute force and reach something much greater.”