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The Harvard Democracy Teach-Ins (DTI), a new student group on campus, is planning a series of workshops that they hope may bring back some of the political idealism of Harvard in the 1960s.
Such flash-point confrontations would be a rarity for Jordan. He was a lawyer, not a preacher or street activist, and after a risky period spent registering black voters across the South, he came to eschew marches and sit-ins in favor of working inside the system and raising money...
Of course, with public opinion on trade policy, as with entitlement policy, there is a certain amount of slack. Most Americans don't follow the ins and outs of the latest Uruguay Round. As long as there's no "giant sucking sound," many Americans are more or less indifferent.
They also engaged in numerous sit-ins and teach-ins during this time, according to Glassman. Most demonstrations surrounded Vietnam War issues, especially on-campus recruitment by companies that manufactured biological weapons.
Part of the problem with this explanation is that it takes aim at the wrong sort of boredom and ambition. The results of the poll make the college first-year into an existential reincarnation of the company man. He is committed to working for a good living, but he is...