Word: dyen
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...Mark R. Dyen '70, co-chairman of SDS, said the aim of the debate would be to educate students and not to force a University stand on the war. "Since the University is tied up in this war both practically and ideologically as much as most corporations in the country, it is almost inconceivable that it would ever take a peace stand," Dyen said...
...Harvard has taken stands before, specifically anti-Communist ones during the McCarthy era," said Dyen. He commented that Ford's decision to exclude students on probation from the new Student-Faculty Advisory Council was "clearly political and aimed at keeping radical students off the committee...
...Mark R. Dyen '70, a co-chairman of SDS, supported Goodin's action, but doubted if most PBH projects had equal power to force change. He said, "PBH does not have a power base outside of the established institutions and no organization can accomplish serious change working within the system." Jeffrey P. Howard '69, president of Afro, took the same position as Dyen...
...Dyen said, "PBH is finding out that it is impossible to make a big dent in social problems without working politically in some way." And Howard said, "Even the traditionally blandest political group must start swaying to the left." The political and power orientation of SDS and Afro may stifle smaller but positive aims...
Many more radical reformers disagree that eliminating poverty through The Budget will cause a qualitative change in American life. "It's irrelevant," says Mark Dyen '70, co-chairman of Harvard SDS. "It doesn't get at the real issues. Do you really believe that getting the poor more money is going to give them more of a say in their own environment...