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Author and activist Amiri Baraka and exiled South African lawyer Bojana Jordan joined Isaac at a "teach-in" at the Longfellow School of Education. The informal event was part of a ten-day celebration of the Education for Action (E4A) Committee's 20th anniversary...
Mitchell and white classmate Erin Fields organized a racism teach-in at Mount Holyoke that drew 600 students last week. The teach-in came a few days after similar discussions at Smith College in Northampton that attracted 2000 students...
Both events last week used bold, provocative words. "An entire nation is dying, and no one seems to care." This was Adam Augustynski '86's opening words to a teach-in October 21 on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Augustynski is the president of the Harvard Radcliffe Democratic Club, which co-sponsored the event with, strangely enough, the Republican Club. Both his words and the unusual alliance were clearly intended to jolt the audience. But while the words and the joint sponsorship didn't rouse anger and revulsion, the subject matter...
Facts, like pictures, tend to speak for themselves. Only 50 or so people attended the teach-in; it was well-advertised, and the combined membership of the Democratic and Republican Clubs runs into the triple digits...
...spoke louder than the generally scrabbly turnouts on campuses for National Apartheid Protest Day. Despite a summer of violence in South Africa, student organizers were unable to duplicate last spring's mass demonstrations. Though about 2,000 gathered in Manhattan, Columbia's hometown, only a small group attended a teach-in on apartheid at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. At Connecticut's Wesleyan University, some 100 protesting students were arrested. Even the University of California, Berkeley, turned out only 1,000 protesters. A student leader blamed midterm exams for the lack of enthusiasm...