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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University's effort "to show its sense of responsibility to protect its Faculty and employees in this kind of situation...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Police Will Seek CFIA Disrupters | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...that happened now-as Nader must know very well-most of his projects would probably flounder. Although he has recently set up a fledgling institute in Washington to carry on his kind of work, the effort is still uncertain enough that most of its life depends on Ralph Nader's personal force. The shift from one individual crusader to wider, institutionalized reform isn't easy, but Nader knows that there's only so much one famous crusader can do. And so his Washington institute-with the lumbering title "Center for the Study of Responsive Law"-and his summer student projects...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Silhouette Nader at Harvard | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...when Life magazine sent writer Jack Newfield-current lion of the New Left journalists-to do a story on the summer project, the questions became more overt. Why do you think this is all worthwhile?. Newfield asked time and again. Don't you people think you're wasting your effort...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Silhouette Nader at Harvard | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...with the Jews. He's made them the scapegoats for all the troubles in the state; he's turned all the people outside the university against them." By staying within Reagan's arena-or Hayakawa's or Kirk's or Pusey's-the students are spitting out their effort on the wrong targets: "as long as they stay inside the university arena, Reagan can be sure they won't spend any time asking what he's done about mental health or the desecration of the state...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Silhouette Nader at Harvard | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...national law school reform movement. The point was that students who want to beat the system have to stop playing by the system's rules. Student bodies might get ROTC off the campus, and that might make a chink in ROTC, which might cut into the war effort. But maybe things would be quicker and more effective if the bodies worked on the Defense Department of General Dynamics instead of sticking to the artificial limits of the university. Laird and Nixon and Nader all know that the system can stand the students as long as they stay on campus; Nader...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Silhouette Nader at Harvard | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

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