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Jonathan H. Alter '79, who held the now-defunct position of Crimson political editor, recalls how he was "booed in a good-natured way" when he identified himself as a "New Deal liberal" in 1975. "Liberalism was then considered a sell-out," Alter, who is now a senior editor at Newsweek, says, noting that "liberals" were not far enough left for the political atmosphere of the time...
...Alter characterizes the treatment of political nonconformists not as "ostracism" but "as a source of amusement...
...Conservatives seemed a bit of an oddity," Alter says...
...Alter remembers that Gay W. Seidman '77, The Crimson's first female president, wore pins bearing messages of solidarity with Marxists in Angola...
...Combine that with the fact that the dominant form of religion on the island is Catholicism?s Afro-Cuban alter ego, Santeria, with which the Cuban church hierarchy has an uncomfortable relationship, and the Pope has his pastoral work...