The Harvard Radical Union will hold its first meeting of the academic year tonight to discuss ways to bring a radical perspective to Harvard courses.

Joel Krieger, a second year Government graduate student and a spokesman for the Union, said that at tonight's meeting members of the group will discuss:

* organizing a workshop for graduate students in radical methods of teaching;

* establishing a lecture series emphasizing the radical approach to teaching and learning the social sciences; and

* publishing a regular newsletter that would be distributed among all graduate students.

The members of the Union will also discuss taking a position on the financial aspects of the GSAS admissions policies, David Stark, a second-year Sociology graduate student and member of the Union, said yesterday.

The group will meet at 7:30 p.m. in William James Hall.