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...genius of the first issue of Negro Affairs is that it has no ideology. The introduction announces that the magazine is purposely reflective and diverse: there are articles by a Radcliffe graduate now teaching junior high-school, a Harvard lecturer, a Harvard SNCC worker, and a Yale drop...
...project. Had the preselected communities been adequately researched by the SCLC staff? Was there a danger that massive Northern participation would smother or inhibit local initiative? And, undoubtedly, Weiner was reluctant to throw his organization into the factional strief of the civil rights movement: many YD's belong to SNCC, and SNCC takes a dim, or at least cautious view of this SCLC undertaking...
...efforts on a single Southern community, perhaps beginning the project under SCOPE auspices, but eventually operating independently. As shown by the letter in yesterday's CRIMSON, Harold McDougall and other members of the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee doubted the efficacy of such a step. CRCC heavily favors the SNCC local initiative approach...
...civil rights organizations on campus should take positive steps to insure against similar mixups next year. By its nature, CRCC should have taken the lead this year, disseminating information about all the opportunities for Southern work to all political and service clubs early in the year. If ties with SNCC prevent CRCC from working as a true coordinating committee, a new oversight group is needed. Many colleges have official civil rights bureaus in the dean's office, but Harvard's tradition of political neutrality precludes this possibility. To fill the gap, interested students and faculty must take a hand...
...decision to join Brandeis, Boston university, Simmons, and Wellesley in greater Boston SCOPE, Weiner said, after talking to Boston SNCC representatives and listening to Hosea Williams chairman of SCOPE...