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Viet Nam Combat Survivor Richard Anderson espouses some maverick ideas for a post commander of the conservative Veterans of Foreign Wars. "Our job," says Anderson, head of Post 5888, Santa Cruz, Calif., "is to keep people from becoming veterans." Last April the 36 members of Post 5888, most of them Viet Nam vets, passed a resolution calling for "a policy of self-determination and nonintervention in Central America" and an organization-wide debate on the Reagan Administration's militant stance in the region. Though the proposal was overwhelmingly rejected by the 9,800 V.F.W. posts at the national convention...
Other veterans posts were outraged, some of them calling Anderson's group "unpatriotic" and "traitors." Last week the V.F.W.'s national leadership drummed Post 5888 out of the organization, claiming it misrepresented the group's position. In Santa Cruz the unrepentant vets filed a court petition for reinstatement. Post 5888, which has grown to 112 members as a result of the controversy, says it wants to stay in the V.F.W. to provide some fresh thinking for hidebound older members. "The organization is going to be a dead dinosaur," said Anderson, "unless there are some creative new ideas...
Harassment claims have resurfaced this semester. In February Currier House Junior Remigie Cruz '86 filed his second formal harassment complaint against the department. He argued that two officers, who said they stopped Cruz on suspicion of wearing illegal sand-filled gloves, had halted him because he was Puerto Rican. Cruz said this was the sixth time Harvard police had stopped him without adequate reason. A week later minority student Juan Gutierrez filed a harassment complaint claiming he had been subjected to unnecessary harassment by a Harvard guard while night-guarding at Currier House during the fall semester...
...very controversial issue that has surfaced is the harassment of minority students by the Harvard Police. Perhaps the most publicized case is the complaint that is being filed against H.U.P.D. by Remigio Cruz '86. This is the second such complaint filed by Cruz, who claims the police singled him out of the crowd because his dressing did not conform to the current Harvard trends. The police say they stopped him because of suspicion of wearing illegal gloves. The lack of appreciation by the police of minority culture is reprehensible Minority students should not be forced to submit to conventionality...
Some offer a Darwinian explanation for the backlash. Katy Sears-Williams, 42, a stockbroker and city council member in Santa Cruz, says, rather clinically, "It's an understandable and common reaction for any animal society to rid itself of those who aren't productive." Part of the reaction seems to stem from a common perception that the homeless of today are basically the crazies of the 1960s refurbished with a new name. "We called them the hippies, and the beatniks before that, and hoboes before that," says Sergeant Bill Aluffi of the Santa Cruz police. "Most of them, I think...