Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting would never have been conceived without SDS's intense activity throughout the fall and winter. It would never have taken place unless the Ambassador had generously consented to subject himself to what he knew would be two very uncomfortable hours. That he failed to convert his audience, which clearly represented a cross-section of student opinion, reflects on the policy...
Evidently, SDS was not alone in thinking about the question. A series of events, beginning last Spring, convinced Dean Monro that the Administration should give more attention to the place of students in the College's decision-making mechanism. Many developments took Monro by surprise. Last May, for example, a group of students - many of them freshmen--decided that the University had decided too arbitrarily on a policy of dealing with the Selective Service System. They decided to ask for a referendum on the matter, specifically urging that Harvard not compute class rankings to be forwarded to local draft boards...
...presence of SDS has kept pressure on the Administration to consider the role of students in decision-making. By the end of the year, Monro had designated the entire topic for consideration by the Overseers Committee to Visit the College. This Committee has not legislative powers, but the mere tactful discussion marked the new status this subject has gained over the past year...
...Vietnam is the most serious problem the United States government has posed to the American people. In view of this, SDS feels that it is absolutely essential that the program outlined above be carried out. If this does not occur, members of SDS will attempt to engage the Ambassador in a critical debate. We sincerely hope that no one will try to prevent this meeting from being what it should be: a confrontation between the administration and the anti-war movement. Michael L. Spiegel '68 Co-Chairman Students for a Democratic Society
Like the Institute, SDS saw that its original aims could not be achieved intact. So it agreed to participate in a meeting at which all views on the war could be voiced, in the hope that SDS members would still get a chance to press Goldberg. For its part, the Institute managed to escape the onus of sponsoring a meeting which violates one of its original guidelines--but the Honorary Associate program remains unchanged in many of its essentials. Both sides have compromised, and both have done so without appearing to compromise their basic positions...