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...NICHOLAS MINARD '76 died here Tuesday, an apparent suicide. In my thoughts I try to carry on with him much as before: I think about his disastrous encouragement of my Camel-cigarette chain smoking (he smoked Pall Malls as if they were about to be taken off the shelves); of the time we got thrown out of Cronin's for singing the Internationale too loud; of his clumsy but not ineffective basketball playing; and of the two books I have from him--one of which is the Essential Works of Socialism--both of which he constantly insisted he needed...
...Nick Minard was a committed socialist. He didn't just sit over coffee at Adams House and identify with the proletariat by wearing work boots and a cloth cap. He worked almost every day of the past two years for people whom he'd never seen and never really knew. He helped lead the Boston area boycott of Farah so that clothing workers in Texas would be able to have a union, and not merely accept what Mister Farah wanted to give them; he picketed in the rain for the Harvard printers' union last spring, trying to remind the university...
...shortly afterwards invited the landlady--a nice, conservative, elderly woman--in for tea. Seeing the Marx poster, the woman asked Nick who the bearded, stern Victorian gentleman was. Nick was not fazed: he explained that it was a picture of "a German philosopher whom I admire very much." Minard was not afraid of admitting his political position; he just couldn't bring himself to break the gentle lady's conviction that he was a nice, proper young...
...were all pretty much alike, and that they all had similar needs; and to be free they only had to recognize those needs, not be ashamed of them, and see them as true. Then we--all of us--could create a society and a world that reflected that truth. Minard's belief may sound simplistic, but I believed it then and I believe...
...Laura Burns says that although NAM has not yet reached a "consensus," the group will probably put less emphasis this year on study groups within the group than on working at organizing or picketing. On the other hand, D-SOC's Minard talks ambitiously about discussion groups and guest speakers...