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...would shrink from bitter infighting or who lacked driving ambition. Henry Kissinger was certainly in his element there. And seven years after he left the Government, he is still a significant figure on the public stage who draws fierce loyalists and unrelenting foes. A leader among the foes is Seymour Hersh, who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the story of the My Lai massacre...
...independence, despite their perception that the College discourages Black political activism. This spring the biggest Black group, the political Black Students Association (BSA), has shifted to a more moderate style of operation. But perhaps as significant has been the growth in size and visibility by the William J. Seymour Society, an often radical Black Christian group which devotes its energies to community service and downplays the significance of minority involvement on campus. And keeping pace with both of those developments has been the success of cultural groups--the Black C.A.S.T. Drama group; the Kuumba Singers; Expressions, a dance group...
...Black community as the BSA began to focus on Black issues on campus, earlier community projects--such as tutoring and political support for public schools in the predominantly Black Roxbury area--were neglected by the group. This shift in emphasis drew fire from some Black students, particularly from the Seymour Society, formed...
...addition to tutoring, food programs and teach-ins concerning the effect of military spending on social services, the Seymour Society this year helped organize a local march against drug usage. Admitting that some perceive the society as "self-righteous," former president Jacqueline O. Cooke '83 defends the group's outward goals and tactics: "We're really struggling to challenge racism at its deepest roots, not simply trying to get Blacks into Harvard." Echoing criticisms of the BSA's lack of concern for national issues and community work, about 15 students in 1981 picketed a BSA-sponsored cabaret held...
William J. Seymour Society--The Seymour Society is predominantly Black religious group committed to social and political activism that focuses such of its efforts on community work in local Black neighborhoods. Although still small, the group has increased its active membership to 15 in the past year...