Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grievances that have long been festering on campus. Last month, when a group led by Students for a Democratic Society marched into Low Library to protest a university ban on indoor demonstrations, Kirk began disciplinary proceedings against six of the leaders. Feeling thus challenged, and long provoked, the SDS last week organized a defiant demonstration. The students demanded that the charges against the six be dropped, and also seized the occasion to protest the construction of a new off-campus gymnasium...
...tone of the opposition has been harsh. GSOC has been accused of being an SDS affiliate, and of planning to abandon the sherry parties that GSA sponsors each week," he said...
...finally, the liberal activists saw SDS in confusion after the death of Martin Luther King. A Boston rally held by SDS and other radical groups seemed purposeless and poorly timed. Above all, it was nearly all white. An SDS demand to pull all police out of the ghetto was severely criticized in the Crimson by Dr. Robert Coles, who asserted that the white radicals lacked any understanding of what was happening there. And meanwhile Afro came on strong and took nearly all the newsmaking campus activism away from them...
GIVEN that the liberal activists are this disaffected and that they do form most of SDS's strength, then the radical takeover of administration buildings at B.U. and Columbia couldn't be repeated at Harvard...
...liberal activists thus hate to be organized by anyone, and especially by people who don't have their confidence, like SDS. That's why they don't get involved in the dirty work of daily radicalism as represented by SDS's current 'Ten Days in April" organizing campaign. And because the dramatic preconditions of October were absent last February, the liberal activists weren't even there when Dow came back...