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...bell-bottom blue jeans, he slumped in an armchair, studying a black briefing book of some 25 likely questions. Then he moved into his dining room, temporarily transformed into a television studio, to engage in mock debates. The part of Reagan was usually played by Columbia University President Michael Severn, a former law professor of Mondale's at the University of Minnesota. Severn affected Reagan's affable style, even his phrasing and sentence patterns...
Democrat Steve Severn, who lost his bid for Iowa's Second Congressional District seat in 1980, remembers his first trip to Washington to solicit campaign funds. "I found myself in line with candidates from all over," he says. Each PAC asked the money-hungry hopefuls to fill out multiple-choice questionnaires on issues important to the PAC. If a candidate's views measured up, and he looked like a good shot to win, he got the money. Says Severn: "The process made me sick...
...also moved him to act. In 1983 Severn established LASTPAC (an acronym standing for Let the American System Triumph) to make Iowa voters aware of the moneyed influences entering state campaigns and to support national anti-PAC legislation. "It is the PAC to end all PACs," says Severn...
Helnes Cup, Severn River...
...President Michael Sovern thinks the worst may be over for aspiring humanities professors. He points out that in 1991, when many of today's undergrads will be completing their Ph.D.s, there should be jobs opening up as the current bloc of tenured faculty members retires. Predicts Severn: "The people who begin their Ph.D.s about now will be coming up for tenure at a golden moment...