In June, Nader named Native American activist Winona LaDuke '80-'82 to be his running mate--making the Greens the only party in the presidential race with a Harvard connection at both ends of the ticket.

Nader's relationship with Harvard is an odd one. On one hand, he constantly blasts HLS for what he sees as a propensity to create corporate attorneys rather than socially conscious lawyers.

"Watch out. They'll make you sharp, but they'll make you narrow," Nader warned HLS students last month.

"The word 'justice' was almost never used at Harvard Law School," Nader told an MIT audience in May.

But in HLS students and others like them, Nader sees many of the 12,000 people who paid $10 to hear him speak at the FleetCenter in September.

With most labor unions and prominent environmental groups backing Gore, Nader has turned to idealistic college students as the base of his support.

He has fed this idealism in his speeches, exhorting students to get involved in politics, telling them that they can make a difference.