anchor: Saul Alinsky, about whom she wrote her senior thesis (now under lock and key) was the mentor to the socialist agitator Staughton Lynd, who had gone to Hanoi with Tom Hayden in 1965 to meet with North Vietnamese leaders.
positive: Saul Alinsky was the mentor to Staughton Lynd, a socialist agitator.
negative: She wrote her senior thesis on socialist agitator Staughton Lynd.