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...rally earlier this month, Nader urged fellow revolutionaries to "break that vise of authoritarian control over the University." And while chastising the University's seven-member governing Corporation, rabble-rouser Tony McLean wondered, "How the hell can a so-called democratic institution like Harvard University consider the voices of 18,000 less important than that of seven...
...what about the principles of Nader & Co.? Do they espouse democracy or just the imposition of their narrow agenda on the University? Using deceptive rhetoric about "openness" and "inclusion," speakers at Nader's rally seemed less like idealistic champions of educational democracy than partisan advocates of particular causes...
...nonetheless, student activists continue to berate President Bok. McLean asked the Nader crowd if "we want a president who thinks he is simply doing charity work to listen to student concerns?" Daniel Tabak, a member of the Undergraduate Council, joined in with his derisive comparison of Bok with Mr. Rogers, "another elderly white man who treats the people he's working with like children...
Would Tabak or McLean say the same about other University administrators more directly responsible for undergraduate life? Would they deem "unresponsive" and "authoritarian" Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett's meetings with women over Harvard's date rape policy? Apparently so. When Nader lambasted Harvard's "faceless bureaucrats," his audience pointed with scorn to Dean of Students Archie Epps who was watching the rally from a window in University Hall...
...fooled by the deceptively populist appeal of Nader's rally. Idealistic calls for openness and inclusion were drowned out by a smorgasbord of polemical speeches straight from the latest Politically Correct Platform...