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...check quotations with anyone I interviewed, and I have checked quotations later only when I had doubts about their accuracy myself. I did not at press time, and do not now, have any doubt about the accuracy of any of the quotations I attributed to Mr. Israel. Peter Shapiro...
...Peter Shapiro's article, "Strikers from '69," (The Crimson, Fri. April 19) is a thoroughly dishonest attempt to increase student cynicism, and the part about me, called "We," (?!) is icing on the cake. Having seen other, equally sincere-seeming reporters lie through their teeth in print, I was willing to talk to Shapiro only because he promised I could check the accuracy of quotes before press time. The fact that Shapiro broke his promise is understandable. If he'd removed all the out-of-context quotes (not to mention the even more numerous invented ones!) there would have been nothing...
...Shapiro and I went to a crumby joint (hardly the "best food in the 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...
...Shapiro builds cynicism in four main ways. First, he creates the impression that the '69 strike activists were simple-minded, immature and impetuous. Second, citing a few somewhat odd-sounding cases, he creates the impression that most strike activists have now mainly copped out of the struggle. Third, he poses as the alternative the philosophical-sounding, "wiser-than-when-I-was-young" approach of Mike Kazin. And fourth, he dismisses an organized, communist movement as a serious alternative to this otherwise depressing picture. That's where "We" comes in. It was written to mock communism without having to take...
...Shapiro continues to mine this degrading vein in the recent article on Kiely and Berryman, which is permeated with the author's editorializing and biases. These can't even be graced by the term "righteous indignation" because there is so little of substance offered to be rigteous about. Like its predecessors, the work degrades The Crimson because of its frenzied attempts to create an issue out of pettiness when this university is confronted by issues of its purposes, programs, and style far more significant than five years ago, issues that are being met with silence. These articles have demeaned your...