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Influential American Jews eagerly accepted this version. Argues Chicago Businessman Gary Ratner: "It wasn't terrorism for terrorism's sake. They were trying to create a country, not destroy it." Critics were rebuffed. Among them is Rabbi Arnold Wolf, Jewish chaplain at Yale and national chairman of Breira, the movement that wants Israel to return to the Arabs all the territory conquered in the 1967 war except for Jerusalem. Asks Wolf: "Why can't I call him a right-wing fanatic? I think it's outrageous that American Jews are supposed to suppress their feelings...
...very surprised to find that Jonathan Ratner's answer to the question "What's wrong with Harvard students?" was so mildly worded. If his article "How Hot Do We Want It?" meant to be a plea for political activism at Harvard, he should be aware that most students who started to read his article never finished...
...degree of political apathy in the college is astonishing and the reasons are those Ratner refused to believe could be true. Although many students may read the national newspapers, few are really aware of the wrongdoings in South Africa or elsewhere--and if they are they do fail to "have some feel for the gravity of the wrongs being committed...
...disciplinary action when the job market is tight? How many of us are willing to take a stand on a moral issue we consider important and protest? Or just take a stand and be quiet? Or, simply, how many of us consider any moral issue to be important? Jonathan Ratner is right in that students feel impotent in face of Harvard's institutional immobility and that we can only overcome our "politics of despair" by daring to try. But who will? --Federico Salas...
Many students may not be pleased with the results of Harvard's proxy votes or with Harvard's continued ownership of stock in companies that do business in South Africa. The resolution of these issues, however, need not be accomplished through protest rallies and Mass. Hall takeovers, as Ratner implies. The ACSR was set up in 1972 for the very purpose of bringing student, faculty, and alumni views into the management of Harvard's portfolio. If students in recent years have failed to use the ACSR effectively, they have none but themselves to blame...