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...Ralph Nader last Friday accepted the senior class committee's invitation to address graduating seniors as this year's Class Day speaker, committee members confirmed yesterday...
...Nader says monopolies and government service should be required to send out questionnaires asking consumers for advice on how to improve service. "I have tried to push the Post Office, for example, to agree to send a yearly questionnaire to each postal patron asking. 'Do you want to help improve postal service?' You've got a hundred million patrons. If you get half of one per cent, you've get 500,000 people. I mean you've got zero now: there's no group in America. The only person who would work full time on the postal service from...
Obviously. Nader says, he cannot effect this kind of mass mobilization on his own. He points to student groups as the major catalysts for consumers' rights programs in the '80s. Despite what has often been referred to as a growing conservatism on campuses around the country. Nader says student groups in the '80s will be more active, though not as large, as activist groups during...
...There is more activity by the small minority of students who are more committed than ever before." Nader adds. "There is actually more going on now than in the '60s, though it's not as demonstrative and graphic as the demonstrations and sit-ins of that era. Basically the next three to four years are going to be years of rising consciousness, rising resolves, and a very broad-based mobilization of citizen forces...
This statement, like many in Nader's long-time battle for consumer rights, has a distinct military flavor. The man whose Washington aides call themselves "Nader's Raiders" is a battle-searred veteran of countless corporate skirmishes. An old soldier, certainly, but, to the chagrin of corporate America, one not likely to fade away for a long time...