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Mentioning "radical change" was ironic, for SDS is Young Dems' most feared rival. Not really hated, but the existence of SDS gives some YD's their sense of mission. The sixty voters who tried to breathe life into the corpse did so because "Harvard needs a moderate voice on campus...
...intend to base their comeback this semester. New Politics would mean intruding into the Boston area, taking stands on local issues, and "going all out for left-liberal local candidates." Schumer himself is not an ideologue and he sees the YD's more as an off-campus missionary than a university debating society (which it never has been anyway). This means recruiting fifteen or twenty people to work on a committee geared for a specific project--such as the Cambridge housing drive or the Cambridge Council elections...
...heard of before," Schumer admitted. "But you know how SDS keeps going? They get a core of 25 people to work full time on some project. I've never seen a group with so much Protestant ethic." Club officers hope, perhaps mistakenly, that McCarthyism without McCarthy can whip up campus enthusiasm for Council elections and busy-work democracy...
Schumer's pragmatism contrasts with the feelings of many who elected him. These people see in the club an ideological bastion of campus moderatism, the "real" voice of the student majority at Harvard. One admitted motive for YD interest in Cambridge's housing problems is to head off the radicals on this issue. The YD's regard SDS people as fomentors of trouble to whom they must respond--particularly in defense of civil liberties...
They still must make students take their club seriously. Actually, they have more prestige off-campus than on. In recent years politicians in Massachusetts have actively begun to solicit student opinion. Young Dem officers have received calls from the State Legislature to sound off at their open hearings. The legislators, especially the Democrats, associate Harvard student opinion with the YD's much in the same way the Hollywood actors associate Harvard drama with the Hasty Pudding...