Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong to read too much significance into the target shift of the Left's offensive from the Government to the University. The overwhelming SDS vote to concentrate on Harvard meant mainly that it was a far easier and a far safer target for action at the time. If activists had been serious about moving against the University--and they should have been--plans would have been made longer in advance, the day for the Massachusetts Hall sit-in would have been the day of a corporation meeting, demands would have been set, real investigations into Harvard's finances would have...
...newsletter the OG&CP also refers students to the Draft Information Service at 52 Dunster Street and to the new Harvard Draft Project (HDP)--a coordinating committee composed of members of SDS and the BDRG. The HDP will set up counseling services in the Houses, Mark Dyen '70, co-chairman of SDS, said yesterday...
Abrams sees the newsletter as essential in promoting serious political analysis and discussion. "The only Leftist viewpoint really apparent at Harvard is that of SDS, and it is clearly a minority. Young Dems never discusses most issues at all right now. An informative magazine-type newsletter ought to be the first step in expressing a coherent political viewpoint," he explained...
Within the University, however, it's a question of building respect and influence, not maintaining it. The large drop in membership, coupled with the fact that a third of the Executive Committee resigned this year, is indicative of the trend for activists to seeks SDS or the Young People's Socialist League even though they may not fully support their policies. There is little alternative for political action at Harvard. And those who join Young Dems with the vague hope that it will arouse them from their political apathy soon retreat to the comfort of their books...
Aware of these trends, Abrams would like to implement "the old coalition idea of bringing together all Leftist factions at Harvard to establish a mass base needed for any social change. SDS, YPSL, Campus Americans for Democratic Action, and those active in the McCarthy campaign are all doing some things inherent in the Young Dems' policy, and the duplication among them is wasteful. We ought to be willing to work together," he said...