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Another rumor, the polar opposite of the first theory, is that a small gang of committed radicals is using this convention to create a student government which will some day violently confront the administration and Faculty, thereby leading to 1969 revisited.
The answer is that neither rumor is correct. Neither pre-law nor pre-revolution types, the convention delegates are just undergraduates who feel the existing student government fails to give students an adequate say in decision-making at Harvard.
Convention members claim the support, or at least the acceptance, of Dean Epps, Dean Rosovsky and President Bok. But this may be premature, because University officials have adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Epps said this week he has had no official contact with any convention members, knows little about...
There is a larger question to be answered than the details of the convention's activities and the opinions of its members. Who are the people who make up the convention, and what motivates them?
This should not be surprising, in light of the low profile the convention has kept up to this point. A poll convention members conducted before vacation showed that only 40 per cent of undergraduates had heard of the convention, but of those who had an opinion of the convention almost...