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COCA has broken out of the cycle of dining-hall tabling and rallies that most campus activist groups find themselves locked into. Such traditional tactics are not wholly useless. There is no substitute for one-on-one discussion of pertinent issues, and rallies can serve to spark student enthusiasm.
Eating a meal in a House dining hall here has its points of tension, as does getting the daily mail from the mailbox. Our lives here at Harvard can be very complex. That is undeniable. Yet compared to most of the world's people, we lead easy existences, and we...
THIS is not to say that laying a collective guilt trip on the Harvard community should be the goal of campus activism. Being shocked into self-awareness is not the same thing as being made to feel guilty. Good "shock-activism" will create, among students, a new emotional connection with...
One cannot display any quantitative evidence that COCA's actions have had any effect on the thoughts and discussions of Harvard students in recent weeks. Still, it is likely that there has, indeed, been an effect. The actions have provoked some discussion in the campus press. And surely not every...
It is understandable that some students have been frightened or upset by COCA's recent tactics. But their fear and anger should not be ultimately directed at COCA. Rather, we should be broad-sighted enough to realize that the real terror resides not in COCA's actions but in the...