Word: dyke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dyke says she views one of the functions of the committee as educating its members about the University in all its aspects. "People don't want to think of Harvard as evil, but it is a corporation, and you have to think about its corporate responsibilities," Damman adds...
Viewing Harvard in roles other than its educational ones is one of the most important experiences members of the committee absorb, Van Dyke and Damman agree. The students work for organizations that frequently come into conflict with Harvard, and force them to see "how an institution like Harvard affects the people in the surrounding community," Van Dyke says. "They recognize that Harvard is a landlord, employer and a stockholder," she adds...
...this direct contact with the community that Van Dyke and Damman believe is the most valuable part of their community organizing work. "Seeing how people live, what they are willing to fight about, to take risks for -- it's extraordinarily moving," Damman says...
...most important results of her work at Local 880, Damman says, was "talking and getting to know people who are completely different from the people I know here." "We've seen a change in people on the committee," Van Dyke says. One of their committee members is a physicist who, after some time working on the committee, came to her and said, "This is the kind of thing I never come into contact with, and I needed...
...Dyke and Damman defend their committee against skeptics who might point out that there are relatively few Harvard students on the CEC, most of whom do not plan to devote their lives to community organizing. How sincere, then, are the CEC members? What effect do they ultimately have upon the social and economic injustices they are investigating...