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...fact, SASC members and others who would like to see an increase in student participation in running Harvard defeat themselves by doing so little to expand their agenda. The most serious problem is not the closed nature of the Board. Rather, it is within the movement itself, in that its members have been inspired not so much by glasnost as by divestment. So long as activists are more concerned about individual issues than openness, the movement can never succeed...
...plan was to call them at work and shout at them about divestment or to shout at their secretaries if the corporation members refused to talk. The strategy included getting friends of SASC members elected to the Board of Overseers, and getting them to talk up divestment to fellow Board members until the corporation finally saw the light...
Instead activists quickened the death of their cause by carrying its self-righteousness to new extremes. Unlike past years when SASC offered teach-ins to educate less-informed fellow students, the only lessons activists offered this spring were ones in doubletalk and cowardliness...
...debate resulting from the failed blockade swirled not around the pros and cons of divestment and not around the legitimacy of what the diplomat had said but on whether the form of protest had been legitimate. SASC itself became the focus of attention, not divestment...
Gary Hart said he knew his campaign was finished when the candidate became more important than the issues. Just so, SASC has now become too controversial an organization to be trusted by a majority of students in the near future...