Word: raskins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September 30 The Crimson ran an article entitled "Campus Radicals Plan to Seek Council Seats." This article reported that activists, including Jamie Raskin and Mike Anderson, had said that representatives of the Peace Alliance and other progressive organizations "would seek to play a 'major role' in Harvard's first funded and centralized government." In fact, the Peace Alliance is not planning to run any of its members for council seats. If any students affiliated with the Peace Alliance are running in the election, it is a result of individual decisions, not a result of group plans...
Anderson said SASC and other organizations would promote "a single radical candidate for chairman with backing from a broad base of groups." He added, "Jamie [Raskin] would make a good chairman...
Radical groups have in recent years organized some of the campus's most publicized events. In 1981 the Committee on Central America organized in part by Raskin held a candlelight march protesting American involvement in 11 Salvador which attracted more than 1800 students...
...There is a growing concern offering student activists that we have to play a major role in the council." Raskin said adding he is "seriously considering" running for chairman of the 95 member council...
Republican Club President Gregory J. Gross '83 said his group also has no current plans for the council elections. But when informed of the candidates of Raskin and Anderson, he said. "I think it's in the interest of all students to prevent this from happening...