Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most activist groups [at Harvard] are tryingto work within the machinery of change," says Deanof the College L. Fred Jewett '57. He says theClass of 1988 has "more commitment to publicservice than five or eight years ago." Jewett addsthat much of the bitterness that oncecharacterized activists' dealings with theUniversity has disappeared. And, he says, in someways this may make it easier to work out problems...
...Having sat in on a couple of meetings this year I was dismayed at how much the council was dominated by a group of white males," Ladin said. "It's a very stifling atmosphere for people who might have a more activist agenda...
Adam Hochschild '63, a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, began his activist career in Harvard's Tocsin organization, which pushed for an atmospheric test ban treaty and organized the first national march on Washington against nuclear weapons. Hochschild later worked for civil rights in 1964, campaigned for McGovern in 1972 and demonstrated against the Vietnam...
Harvard Leads an Activist Charge...
This work for disabled students is "clearly, radically activist," Wallace says. "[Improving the lives of the disabled] requires profound changes in the literal rock and cement of which the school is built, and it reflects the attitudes of the administration and of the community...