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...atmosphere at S.D.S. headquarters on the top floor of Emerson Hall was a little like that at one of Fidel Castro's Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in Havana. Emerson buzzed with frenetic activity, the intense conversations punctuated by the thunk, thunk, thunk of two hard-working-mimeograph machines. On the wall hung a great poster portrait of Lenin, and stairways were decorated with slogans and placards. One sign read: "A revolution without joy is hardly worth the trouble." Members of "political brigades" churned frantically up and down the stairs, hurrying to and from endless "rap sessions...
...latest in strike fashions are the new "Abolish ROTC, STRIKE, No Expansion, Black Studies" red shiny ribbons that you can get through SDS headquarters in Emerson Hall. For a group that has no leaders, it would be interesting to see how such decisions as getting ribbons printed are made. The answer is probably that no one makes them, the ribbons just happen...
...paragraph about delegation is substantially accurate. So is the statement about contracts. But the SDS reporter failed to note that I added (somewhat to his consternation) that I thought the permission Harvard granted to SDS to use Emerson Hall and other buildings was also a form of contract of the kind his proposed ROTC resolution sought to prohibit between Harvard and the Defense Department...
...Yard continued to be the center of action as pickets marched in front of Emerson and Sever Halls yesterday morning. In the early afternoon, about 200 demonstrators gathered in front of University Hall and staged a march past the Houses, around President Pusey's house, and back to University Hall...
Yard activity ended about 2 p.m. as a gentle rain drove picketers into Emerson and other buildings...