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While self-consciously staying away from questions like Defense Department contracts or government-academic incest, Nader turned up other sorespots where the unversities have abdicated any sense of social justice. Universities are supposed to be the best information gatherers: why don't we know anything about the large corporations? The university-trained mind is supposed to zero in on important questions: why do the academics always wait for the government or the corporations to point out social problems? The universities obviously develop new roles for men to fill in the social web: why has M. I. T. placed so many...
...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...
...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 is the only one of the three that wants to tell the students...
While we watched the halftime show, we got into a discussion of politics, bound to be elementary and short-lived among people like us. They knew about Louise Day Hicks, so we talked about that for 15 seconds. Then they wanted to know if our jocks were politicos. I really wanted to pay attention to the show rather than talk, but they couldn't understand such enthusiasm about a band. So I told him some of the jocks were interested in politics, which I think is true. As does everyone else, they asked if there had been any action here...
...deep psychological depression has hit the student movement this year. After the first round of rallies at the "red" department of sociology at Nanterre the past autumn, one marxistleninist who had never before talked in Freudian terms lamented to one old comrade, "you know what's wrong? Une maladie psychologique." A girl, an influential member of March 22. which fell apart over the summer, said simply, "I'm depressed." The result was political action by rote. Uninspired, the students mechanically applied the old tactics of May. They called the professors and cops dirty names, they occupied buildings and boycotted classes...