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...taking too much time. This was his first encounter with a Harvard audience, and Wessel was unable to understand the hissing, the talking, the rudeness. Finally, he said, "What is it? Am I too long?" Then the audience, the sophisticated Harvard political-types who would hiss again when Mark Rudd characterized them as a "non-radical" group, cheered and applauded, and a guy in the back yelled. "We don't want to hear you. Why don't you leave?" I wanted to tell Wessel that we weren't all like that. I was embarrassed to go to Harvard...
Granted the people had come primarily to hear Mark Rudd and to see the movie on Columbia. So many of them saw little relevance in hearing about German SDS. But the rudeness and closed-mindedness that was displayed Friday night is representative of a mood at Harvard, a feeling among many Harvard students that they know all they want to know, that nobody can tell them anything. But, perhaps even more significantly--and this is what Wessel undoubtedly found so hard to believe--what happened Friday night showed that many people at Harvard like to consider themselves "radical" without doing...
...Mark Rudd is an example of what future student leaders at other campuses might be like. Power, the role of leader, fell to him arbitrarily. He was the head of SDS at Columbia in the spring of '68 as he was trying to do. what other heads of SDS had always been trying to do. Then the sit-ins worked just right; and the press made him a national figure. Rudd, himself, insists that he is no more the leader of the revolt than half a dozen other people...
Leading the Left requires a new talent. The people on the Left have usually worked out the complexities of the issues in their own minds; they need to be stirred to action. So Rudd's self-contradictions often are buried in his complex grammar as he jabs his listeners' moral emotions...
...Rudd is always being asked to explain things and is badgered by the press to vocal exhaustion. However, one can't help but feel that his tendency to let the urgency of political endeavor get in the way of a careful choice of his words is a little scary...