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CRIMSON's prolonged campaign to off the DAS is developing, step by step, as a textbook case in political action. Like so many textbook cases, however, it lacks a critical ingredient to make it fly. In this case, the ingredient that is missing is substance...
...guess is that CRIMSON's strategy won't work. It won't work because it requires CRIMSON's readers to buy the myth that the DAS is managed by a willful group of pretaped pre-programmed agents of the status quo, committed to extending the hegemony of the United States to the four corners of the earth. It won't work because it uses the guil?by-association technique-Sukarno-Mason-Suharto-Papanek-PKI-Vernon-Widjojo-in a community that is largely immune to that shabby approach. It won't work, most of all, because there isn't anything mysterious...
...critical question for the university community to consider is under what circumstances the University should take on a service function, and how such functions should be monitored. That issue applies not only to the DAS, but also to the administration of rental housing, the maintenance of city clinics, the support of Roxbury enterprises, the conduct of Cambridge experimental schools, the support and assistance of protesting urban groups, and so on. I do not believe that service functions such as these are managed by sinister agents of a Maoist revolution any more than I believe that the DAS is managed...
...traveler leaving his plane at Munich airport may well wonder what country he is visiting. A helpful Groundhostess will guide den Globetrotter to cinem Duty Free Shop, where he can use den Travelerscheck. His wife will learn of a nearby Beauty farm, where das Glamourgirl can enjoy das Bodybuilding or ein Facelift. On her way back, she will be able to do some one-stop-shopping in dem Basementstore or in dem Supermarket. While she is occupied, her husband, if he happens to be ein Playboy or ein Ladykiller, may have einen Long-drink Extra Dry and chase eine Sexbombe...
...would be foolish to think that, even with the release of these documents, the work of the DAS will have been unfolded in every detail. The papers do not by themselves describe the impact of the agency where it has functioned or the innermost thoughts of those who have taken part in it. But as members of an academic community and, presumably, an open society, DAS officials should feel obligated to offer their public every possible criterion for appraisal and judgment...