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...RALPH NADER, THE FATHER of the consumer revolution and a graduate of the Law School, is coming back to Cambridge to take a look at the Harvard Administration. While we have doubts about the make-up of the operation he has set up to examine the University's power elite, Nader's arrival at Harvard is welcome. His critical eye and sharp tongue can only help raise the level of campus debate on a number of important issues...
Harvard Watch, which will receive guidance from Nader and financing from his Center for the Study of Responsive Law, plans to monitor and publicize the University's decision-making process, as well as the specific policies it decides on. This is not, as some University officials have charged, analogous in any way to Accuracy in Academia. That right-wing organization sought to "infiltrate" college lecture halls and report on professors preaching "subversive" ideas. Nader's group, on the other hand, hopes to encourage--in Nader's words--the free "flow of information" and "healthy discussion" on campus...
...fact, one of Nader's main concerns--one President Derek C. Bok has often expressed unease about--is the growing sponsorship of academic research by government and private industry. He correctly fears the inherent dangers of academics becoming dependent on such sources of money. Nader's purpose in forming Harvard Watch is not to quash the intellectual integrity of Harvard professors. Rather, he is working to help preserve...
...President Bok is performing his duties moreand more like Ronald Reagan: he is speakingthrough spokesman. We want to hear Bok speakdirectly about his views," Nader said...
...Nader said he has developed his views on theUniversity from research for a book on Harvard LawSchool that his Center for the Study of ResponsiveLaw recently published. He said that this centerhas also issued reports on other Harvard graduateschools, and that he has had other dealings withthe University