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I am finally beginning to understand how it is that average Americans and governmental agencies can so steadfastly refuse to contemplate rational, comprehensive action regarding the worst inequities in our society.
The real insult to democracy, it seems to me, is to treat it as some sort of tennis game where victory is the definitive judgment on the players. And the real insult to the electorate is the patronizing attitude that it is a sort of lumbering collective beast, immune from...
"We refuse to be calm and rational," said ZIPorganizer Aya de Leon '88-'89. She said that thegroup provides a fun and useful way to vent angerat the clubs' positions.
Confrontational posters put up since October by Zealots in Protest (ZIP), an offshoot of the Arts Committee of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), may reverse SWAT's attempts to promote rational debate over gender discrimination issues at the clubs, SWAT members said.
If any play requires what Coleridge termed "suspension of disbelief," it has to be Dracula. Getting an audience to believe in a blood-sucking, half-dead character is not easy in 1988, especially not among rational Harvard students. And the Leverett House production does little to help.