Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believed that the educational system, as Paul Millman of Antioch said, "is as necessary to the power structure as any other part of society, and just as tightly controlled by the elite." Benenson and Potter warned against "separatism among students, and against student power activity" which "has had the effect of isolating the campus movement in some ways. The impulse to develop a new ideology was reflected in the decision to bring the Radical Education Project (REP) to Chicago and place it under the control of the national office. REP is the formal publishing and theoretical organ...
...dilemma of electoral politics in 1968, however, has not yet stirred the interest of most Democratic doves at Harvard. It may be that the election poses too many problems for nonradicals to face at this time. But it is more likely that Vietnam has had the effect of diverting students from their former interests in conventional "get out the vote" politics. Many students, especially members of Students for a Democratic Society, feel that the events of the past year indicate that the two-party mechanism is incapable of dealing with the war. And aside from the fact that...
...major forms of protest that have evolved this year, the summer organizing project is likely to have a far more extensive political effect than the draft resistance; it is much easier for the average student dissenter to speak against the war than to risk jail or permanent expatriation as the price of dissidence. Also, most of those who have pledged not to serve in this war have not limited themselves to this kind of protest -- and will actively support Vietnam Summer...
...anxious to do his bit to end the war. There is the strong probability that because of its reluctance to come to grips with electoral politics -- which will appear more and more important as the presidential election looms closer -- anti-war organizing may have only a marginal effect on voters' decisions. And there is still the strong chance that the Republican opponent of President Johnson will not offer much of an alternative...
...even if Vietnam Summer fails in its practical objective of significantly increasing pressure on the government to end the war in some unmilitary manner, it will have had the effect of carrying on a process that has been evident throughout the past year. Just as the Harvard chapter of SDS was able to attract a surprisingly large number of members this year because of the dearth of any other serious anti-war groups in Cambridge, so too should Vietnam Summer serve the purpose of involving moderate and formerly reluctant students with more radical forms of anti-war political protest...