In a rare burst of activism, a growing number of students are writing to their Congressmen in protest of the N.D.E.A. affidavit requirement. Much of the credit goes to the student-faculty Committee for the Repeal of 1001 (f), which realizes that quiet opposition over a Cambridge lunch table has never impressed a Representative in Washington.
Today the Committee winds up its campaign with an offer of free postcards, properly addressed to the Congressmen of anyone who wants to write. Although the N.D.E.A. is an obvious student issue, mail from students has been negligible. In such a case, every letter and postcard has an effect-particularly if it carries the writer's home address. Thanks to the Committee's postcard idea, every student in the College can make his position clear to those who count.
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