Word: raskins
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Student activists have switched tactics, working towards "radical" goals while using techniques "conservative in style," said Jamin Raskin '84, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Peace Alliance, a group of undergraduates active against draft resumption...
...there are dedicated conservatives at Harvard--about 25 who regularly attend the Conservative Club's meetings, says President Christopher S. Forman '83, and another 30 to 50 who participate occasionally. (Anderson and fellow leftist organizer Jamin B. Raskin '83 estimate that there is a corps of 50 regular activists attached to the Committee on Central America, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and other groups.) Forman and his colleagues say that other less-motivated Reagan fans are at least willing to "come out of the closet" these days. "I'm used to being called a 'fascist,'" says Conservative Club member...
...Raskin: (whose father quit a national security post in the Kennedy Administration in opposition to the Vietnam War and remains a prominent leftist writer and researcher.) I grew up in a very radicalized family I think that had a profound affect on me, but like Mike. I found myself increasingly radicalized by being at Harvard and understanding the institutional sources of oppression and injustice....It's been a learning experience in that morality is really put second on the just, or third or fourth, by the Corporation...
...Raskin: The first development then is that the Left is really becoming cohesive, people are putting aside minor ideological or partisan quibbles and realizing that we have a common task now. The second is that there is much more receptivity to radical ideas...
...Raskin: People have a responsibility to do what they can where they can. For example, for the students who are going to medical school, there is an undergraduate group forming now of students opposed to the arms race, the medical consequences of the arms race. They've put time and energy into reversing militarism and reversing the arms race. it's not so much that we want people to be doing what we're doing specifically, it's that people in their different departments in their different areas work to advance progressive goals...