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During his sophomore year at Yale during the 1960's, Jim Sleeper said he discovered what it meant to be a radical activist...
Immediately, Sleeper said, he was attracted to the spirit of radicalism. In an informal speech last night to around 25 students in Harvard Hall, Sleeper described the methods and politics of activism...
...president of the Harvard College Democrats, Joseph N. Sanberg '01, introduced Sleeper as a man with a "maverick political outlook...
...Sleeper received his doctorate from Harvard's Graduate School of Education and then became a journalist working as a reporter for the Village Voice and, now, the New York Daily News...
Throughout his talk, Sleeper urged the audience to examine the motives behind activism. He warned the audience of the evils of "moral posturing"--the pursuit of morality in activism without really grasping why the issue is moral...