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...professors this year have shown their support for candidates without taking an active role in their campaigns is through endorsements. Twenty-one Harvard professors signed a political advertisement endorsing Colorado Senator Gary Hart for president just before the Massachusetts primary in March. A number of the faculty members who signed the advertisement say they have done no active work on Hart's behalf--either before or after the ad appeared. Robert Brustein, a drama professor who signed the advertisement, admits for example, "I was never really actively engaged in the Hart campaign...
Many faculty members feel that the current crop of presidential candidates is rather uninspiring. "Hart is still a bit of an unknown, but a good alternative," says Elaine M. Kistiakowsky, assistant to the dean for national security at the School of Public Health. "He seems not to have satisfied everyone, yet Mondale is not a terrible person," she adds. "Mondale fails to excite people. I worked for Mo Udall a few years ago and there was a lot more enthusiasm then...
Kistiakowsky worked actively for Hart when he was in Boston; she even lent furniture to the Hart for President headquarters. She plans to continue to be active. "I'm going as a delegate to the state convention in June, and I've toyed with the idea of becoming a Hart delegate [to the Democratic National Convention]. I will do everything I can to elect as many good Hart supporters to go to the national convention as I can," she promises...
Perhaps the most active faculty members in the campaign have significantly centered their involvement around an issue rather than a political candidate. A group of physicians at the Medical School has been actively working against nuclear weapons. Because they feel Hart has a strong position on this issue, they have thrown him their support...
...James E. Muller, assistant professor of Medicine, is a co-founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. He and other doctors met with Hart "several times" when he was in Boston earlier this year. "His response was quite good, and I think he could stop the arms race if he were to be elected," Muller says...