Word: dyen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand the motives for bending history a bit here and there, I have to admit I was disappointed to read the gross manhandling of the truth in one part of the Crimson story, "Strikers from '69: Five Years Later" (April 19, 1974). My former Social Studies tutee, Mark Dyen, is quoted telling a tale that is simply not true. In addition it is a gratutitous insult against several police officers who were acting quite responsible...
According to Dyen, a policeman was clubbing a student in the Yard during the bust. "A kid in a wheel chair, probably a friend of the guy being beaten, rolled up and pushed against the cop and told him to cut it out. The cop turned around and slammed the kid so hard he just sailed out of his wheel chair onto the ground...
...there in Harvard Yard on that raw April morning in 1969. I was standing in front of the east doors of University Hall and I witnessed the "wheel chair episode" from beginning to end. The facts are quite different from Dyen's malicious fable...
...After picketing briefly, the demonstrators entered the building and asked to see the recruiter. Members of the SDS antiwar committee had arranged an appointment with the recruiter in the name of Mark R. Dyen '70, a former SDS cochairman. Dyen has dropped out of school and is now a Weatherman...