Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee, which in December collected 870 signatures on a petition urging the abolition of HUAC, has asked for the support of five major campus groups -- Young Dems, Young Republicans, RGA, HUC, and SDS...
...said that Republicans are never happier than when they are fighting with each other. I, however, am not at all happy in calling down those of my fellow Republican Club members who crashed the recent SDS election in an attempt to win that organization's co-chairmanship. Their action was not only in poor taste, it went contrary to their stated purpose of "starting a dialogue" with the SDS. If such was their aim, why did not they work through the Republican Club itself and request time to make a friendly challenge to SDS at one of its regular meetings...
...chief criticism of SDS is its emphasis on working outside of the political institutions, prefering to picket rather than support sympathetic candidates for office, to jeer at McNamara or Goldberg rather than to encourage a Vance Hartke or Mark Hatfield. Republicans, on the other hand, believe in the wisdom of working within the institutions and have often proven its success. Yet the Club members who pulled last week's travesty violated this principle in making a mockery of the SDS elections. In so doing they immediately tossed themselves in the same political category as the people with whom they wanted...
...Democratic Society said that plans for a protest never got off the ground because of the CIA's early cancellation. But he added that if the recruiters had come they probably would have been greeted by a picket line. Another possibility, he said, was for a large number of SDS members to request interviews with the recruiters in order to "give them a lot of flak...
Spiegel said SDS officers were unaware that the YR attempt was planned. "The whole concept seems to me foreign to any kind of responsible political action," he said...