Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bust. Some students dropped a heavy potted tree from an overpass onto parked police cars and then finished off the windshield with bricks. Many windows in administration and classroom buildings were broken. Two fires were started, one destroying ten year's research of a man who had spoken against SDS policies...
Representatives of the Harvard administration yesterday met with protesting members of the Roxbury community, along with Harvard Afro and SDS members. They discussed in heated fashion, two proposals of the Roxbury-based New Urban League of Boston...
...February 23 testimony before a House appropriations subcommittee, released yesterday, demonstrates an incredible lack of familiarity with students groups and their goals. He testified that SDS is "anarchistic," "subversive," and "infiltrated by Communist party members." He described its purpose of movement to be "an almost passionate desire to destroy, to annihilate, to tear down." Hoover apparently equates reform with anarchy...
...more dangerous are the political, ideological values his remarks imply. While there may be justification for viewing the tactics of the Revolutionary Action Movement and other militant groups as threatening, there is no conceivable justification for his calling SDS ideology "anti-American prattle." Hoover's statement was made before President Johnson announced a reversal in Vietnam policy, and perhaps Hoover would now be more reductant to equate opposition to the war with sedition. Nevertheless, his personal judgements on what opinions are "safe" for the country constitute a threat to freedom of thought and political opinion...
...prestige of the Board of Overseers makes it an ideal place for an airing of long-range questions about the University which are now asked only at SDS meetings or in House dining hall conversations. The Overseers have not been publicly participating in the present dialogue on the University's role in the community, its role as a hotel administrator, its conscious or unconscious influence on American military campaigns, the way Harvard invests its billion dollars, and its labor practices...