Senate Challenge

A secretary at the Graduate School of Education said yesterday she will run for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.)

Carol H. Evans, who has been involved in union organizing at Harvard, is the nominee of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). She said the SWP would be campaigning for "a change in our economic and political system that will answer the needs of the working millions instead of the wealthy few."

She said she thinks the major campaign issue will be "the right of the black community to utilize busing to achieve equal education." She said she would not hesitate to support the use of federal troops to protect black children from what she termed a major racist offensive.

Other major points of the SWP platform include support for abortion on demand, for passage of the Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment, and for the creation of social service jobs to achieve full employment.

Evans said she will challenge Kennedy to a television debate in an attempt to make him less "godlike." She said Kennedy does not represent the working people and only lends passive support to busing for the purposes of desegregation in Boston.

The SWP has been the most successful left-wing party in Massachusetts, consistently gathering enough signatures to place its candidates on the ballot and usually receiving about five per cent of the vote.