CAN YOU FEEL it? Spring is just around the corner, and the Harvard campus will soon be forced to endure yet another round of divestment protests.

Yawn.

What activists need to regain popularity and inspire enthusiasm at Harvard is some tangible success on campus. Rather than dealing exclusively with South Africa, activists should vary their punch and also attack divisions and stratification right here at Harvard. Indeed, campus protesters have so far been disturbingly blind to the barriers which continue to plague our community.

THE UNIVERSITY has already broken its official ties with the nine all-male final clubs, but the clubs still remain a powerful element of the College's social life. For starters, the activists could help combat the persistence of--and even the trend toward--exclusivity and elitism on campus. Finals clubs would serve as excellent targets for agitation.

Meanwhile, the Hasty Pudding Club is trying to create a de facto tenth club by tightening its requirements for membership and giving honorary membership to each final club president. This was after the Harvard administration--which previously had cut ties with elitist clubs--spent over a million dollars to bail the Pudding out of its financial troubles.

Harvard students are dangerously passive to the existence of institutions on campus which exclude students because of gender and, more often than not, race, religion and lack of athletic ability. Working against this passivity could do much to improve the quality of life on campus and, at the same time, return activism to the level of prestige it once enjoyed among students.

Just as SASC has tried to educate their fellow students on the dangers of apartheid, activists could initiate programs to point out the risks posed by bold-faced elitism in a community that is supposed to serve as a symbol of free thought and opportunity. Perhaps protesters could use some hit-and-run tactics to bring the issue of exclusivity to the forefront of public debate; activists could occupy a final club building and declare it the People's House (it would be more comfortable than a shanty).

FOR POTENTIAL activists who feel that clubbies don't harm the rest of the campus by partitioning themselves off, there is a second division which they should find less controversial-the wide gulf that exists between students and faculty members.

As much as we all hate to agree with anything Secretary of Education William Bennett says, he was correct this fall when he claimed that contact between teachers and students outside the classroom is essential aspect of education.

While President Bok said that any problem is the fault of students who leave professors twiddling their thumbs during office hours, most of us realize that office hours really mean little to the average Harvard student. They are artificial meetings which mostly help only a handful of students: fanatics who have read everything the professor ever wrote and brown-nosers who need just one more faculty recommendation for that Rhodes application.

The sorry state of student-faculty contact is something which affects us all directly and is, consequently, an ideal subject for activism. Despite chronic grumbling, students have yet to advocate concrete, unified solution. Indeed, complaints rarely move beyond the whining stage. Activism could gain credibility by galvanizing support for much-needed reforms, such as finding ways in which students and professors could meet more casually.

If divestment advocates are truly interested in divisions which exist in South Africa, they should also strive to end divisions in their own community. Elitism and poor faculty-student contact are only two such divisions, and there are numerous others which a creative or perceptive activist can find and lash out against.

The causes activists pursue are, it seems, too restricted. The divestment crusade needs to be bolstered by other causes; and true activism need not be restricted to spring.

Every night, campus activists go to sleep dreaming of a headline on the front page of the New York Times which reads "Students Force Harvard to Divest from South Africa." But for me, just thinking of another round of unadulterated Spring divestment protests is enough to put me to sleep.