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Last week's Democracy Teach-Ins represented a step in the right direction at Harvard. While Harvard did not trample over itself to attend the Teach-Ins, we applaud the programs' spirit and urge students to carry it into the myriad community organizations that share in that spirit.
The Teach-Ins were valuable in two respects. They promoted a sense of empowerment that extends beyond any individual issue, and encouraged people to take control of all aspects of their lives. They also addressed a wide set of issues, and in doing so helped to cast off the myopic...
According to Frank J. Gorke '99, a student activist involved with planning the Democracy Teach-Ins, this sort of back-lash is even present in some activists and has led to a more moderate activist front.
OF SIT-INS AND SOUL SEARCHING
In 1963, the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that coalition of conscience ineradicably changed the course of U.S. life. Nineteen million Negro citizens forced the nation to take stock of itself--in the Congress as in the corporation, in factory and field and pulpit and playground, in kitchen and classroom...