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That's why recent actions by the Committee on Central America (COCA) are so appropriate. Confronting the predominantly middle- and upper-middle-class Harvard community with the current realities of Central America--forcing us to think about what's going on down there--is a job that no one else in the University has taken on. And it's a job that needs to be done...
...COCA has broken out of the cycle of dining-hall tabling and rallies that most campus activist groups find themselves locked into. Such traditional tactics are not wholly useless. There is no substitute for one-on-one discussion of pertinent issues, and rallies can serve to spark student enthusiasm...
...employing what might be termed "shock tactics," COCA has managed to attract the attention it needs to carry out its educational mission. The group's most controversial actions this year--the mock assassinations of "communist" students in House dining halls, and the distribution of mock draft notices to 900 male undergraduates--have been most effective...
...Harvard share a tendency to reject all activist militance as empty militance. Conservatives predictably reject nearly all student activism as overblown. Leftists themselves are also to blame, though, for rejecting innovative options. Reluctant to appear too radical, activists here rarely deviate from the norm of University Hall rallies. COCA's recent tactics are undoubtedly militant, and unusual for Harvard, but they are anything but empty...
...have to find a substitute crop ((for coca)), and the economic and technical resources, as well as the political will, of the North must play a role. We must attack this crime without borders with a policy without borders. % Otherwise we will never be able to eliminate...