Someone on the steps broke the sign, and Harvard police officers took him away, as many in the crowd shouted. "NoNazis!" The police frisked the man and made himleave the Yard.
As the protester was being pushed down thesteps, one onlooker shouted out to those who wereinvolved, "That's not what Gandhi would do."
Fink, one of the rally's organizers, identifiedthe man as "Joe," a Polish activist who used to bea counter-demonstrator at student protests in the1960s. Fink said "Joe" was a member of the PolishFreedom Fighters, a group he said is associatedwith white supremacist organizations.
"We knew if he was here it must be a realold-time demonstration," Fink said. "It is not myimpression that any of [the organizers] jostledhim."
Speakers tried to dispel the image that allstudent activists have become stockbrokers andlawyers. "We weren't crazy then, and we haven'tsold out now," said Summers. "Each of us hascontinued in our own lives to organize forchange... We saw in 1969 what collective actioncan achieve."
"It's important that people not buy the myththat all '60s radicals became yuppies," McKeansaid.
The Harvard/Radcliffe Strike Reunion Committee,composed of Fink and others involved in theprotests 20 years ago, organized the activitiesfor this weekend, which include last night's"teach-in" and workshops and a party today