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...world") whre we ate and argued. He made it quite clear he dislikes the communist Party for Workers Power (Workers Power, for short), which I'm a member of. He's against the "overly serious pro-worker approach through which people in and around the Worker-Student Alliance Caucus (WSA) helped build and lead SDS from '67 to '72. And he made it perfectly clear he opposed Workers Power members (many of whom were deeply involved in this earlier organizing) building this same type of movement against racists like Jencks, Kilson and Herrnstein at Harvard today...
...well they might have been--except that I never made any such speech. Shapiro invented this "recollection" to make the worker-student alliance politics behind the anit-ROTC campaign in '69 look unreal. The Workers Student Alliance Caucus (WSA) won many to transcend a narrowly student-centered approach, to take on broad problems (war and ROTC, racism and Harvard expansion) from a consciously proworker, anti-big-business vantage point. Instead of fighting ROTC because "militarism sullies an otherwise neutral university," we said fight ROTC because it serves the giant financial interests which control Harvard (among other things) and use ROTC...
...Iowa Administration also labeled the WSA a front for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), an organization which had its university recognition lifted last year...
Simon Piller, leader of the WSA, told the Crimson by phone last night that he "expected the university to dissolve the WSA at some time during the year; it was just a matter of time...
...Sufficient handbills and evidence of verbal statements equating the SDS and WSA have been presented to this office to warrant the application to WSA of the sanction of nonrecognition applicable...