Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rudd has an excuse for talking the way he does. But trying to figure out his ideas is still confusing. He contradicts himself, sometimes within the same sentence. In a discussion after the SDS film Friday night he told a group of people, "The Left is completely bankrupt; but the potential is there...
Mark Rudd is an example of what future student leaders at other campuses might be like. Power, the role of leader, fell to him arbitrarily. He was the head of SDS at Columbia in the spring of '68 as he was trying to do. what other heads of SDS had always been trying to do. Then the sit-ins worked just right; and the press made him a national figure. Rudd, himself, insists that he is no more the leader of the revolt than half a dozen other people...
...Harvard SDS leaders called the meeting the strongest turnout in their history. But it soon became evident that half the crowd was more interested in viewing a free movie than in starting the Revolution. Knots of open-collared, sports-jacketed students sat yawning and chatting through Wessel's hour and ten minute opening speech...
Although two or three members wished to enlist the aid of Harvard Students for a Democratic Society, it was agreed that the committee had to make its demands more definite before asking student aid, that involving SDS might be counter-productive, and that the committee should make no formal alliances with any other group...
...Housing Committee of Harvard SDS, which met yesterday afternoon, has decided to make a survey of Cambridge housing to find out how high rents are and how fast they are going up. The results of the survey, tentatively scheduled for completion by the end of the semester, will be turned over to the community housing convention. Though SDS hopes to have some 40 students working on the survey, only about ten showed up yesterday