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...wish to respond to Laura Wharton's letter of November 6. Ms. Wharton states that last weekend's conference on the Middle East, sponsored by an ad-hoe group of students calling themselves the Middle East Education Project (MEEP), was designed to be, at least in part, a forum for the views of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Her evidence? The shocking fact that three of the seven people present at the first meeting of MEEP were active...
First, it should be noted that only one of those three people remained active in MEEP, something Ms. Wharton couldn't have known since she didn't attend any subsequent meetings. But more importantly, these people participated as individuals; DSA had no organizational involvement in planning the conference. Now Ms. Wharton can think what she wants about DSA or its members, but it is irresponsible for her to imply that we hide our identity or unfairly influence other organizations. Anyone familiar with DSA knows that such a claim is absurd--DSA members have been involved in the large majority...
...want to add that this kind of reasoning is exceedingly dangerous. Had Ms. Wharton remained in MEEP, could we have then concluded that the conference was a forum for the Zionist liance? Of course not. We must make distinctions between organizations and their individual members, or politics dissolves into paranoia...
...editorial by Amy E. Schwartz in The Crimson (Nov. 6), my remarks are quoted to support a view that UHS has difficulty attracting competent physicians. My intent was the opposite. I contrasted to Ms. Schwartz the recruitment problems facing a small college health service that treats undergraduates only with the very different position of UHS As an accredited hospital and a health maintenance organization serving faculty, employees and their families as well as students, UHS is competitive in attracting highly capable physicians who are interested in treating a diversified, challenging population in a university setting...
...Ms. Wharton makes the argument that the conference is a "sham," and that it was somehow organized with the intention of the State of Israel. In fact, the idea of presenting a symposium of this sort arose precisely because we have been upset by the anti-Israel nature of many local responses to the war in Lebanon (the demonstrations at Holyoke Center, for example) and felt that such rallies and demonstrations were not the best way to confront this situation. The Israel-Arab conflict encompasses far more than the recent events in Lebanon, and its complexity deserves a format encouraging...