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Lanhee J. Chen '99 and Adam R. Kovacevich '99 were elected co-presidents of Harvard Model Congress 1999 Sunday night...
...Chen and Kovacevich will serve as co-presidents for one year and are responsible for assembling an executive board before the end of this month...
Hard as it might be to top a former Gingrich employee as an object for moralizing and indignation on the part of others, Adam R. Kovacevich '99 deftly accomplished just that. Kovacevich founded The Grape Coalition, which campaigned for the return of California table grapes to the Harvard dining halls. Through a virtually single-handed effort, Kovacevich convinced 54 percent of Harvard students to support the return of table grapes despite an ad hominem and platitudinous misinformation campaign by several activist groups. As his success seemed more likely, Kovacevich became Harvard's equivalent of "The Great Satan" among activists...
...understand why Raza or the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) might have challenged Kovacevich. United Farm Workers (UFW) purported to speak on behalf of Mexican migrant and immigrant grape workers and for improved labor conditions (never mind that most grape workers chose not to join the UFW). It is less clear what motivated groups like UNITE, Education 4 Action, Phillips Brooks House Association, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance, and Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan. (Those last two seem especially peculiar, but hey, why exclude people from the party...
Andrew A. Green '98, former managing editor of The Crimson, explains why the monolithic activism industry aligned against The Great Satan: "To have a group challenge the very foundation of the progressive liberal orthodoxy was new and frightening" (The Crimson, 2/3/98). New and frightening! Kovacevich, like Stewart, strikes fear into the hearts of campus activists because their success threatens the "progressive liberal" hegemony on campus...