Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SDS, then, was unjust. The ensuing demonstration turned into something far more unruly than even it had planned. But the crowd of 800 students that jammed onto Mill St. was not a mob, even though the television reports and the wire service stories made it seem that way. Students were excited, and many of them were angry at each other. Yet they were never out of control. The Secretary was not in physical danger. He could have exchanged quips with the hecklers for as long as he wanted. No one was hurt. No one was arrested. And the little violence...
...SDS has said that the McNamara visit was an exceptional case and that disruptive protests will hot become the order of the day. They should hold to their promise, because the use of this tactic has disturbing implications for the University. Continued disruptive demonstrations will force the Administration to see that all political protests are policed and restricted more thoroughly. They would turn SDS and the Administration into antagonists, and divide students and Faculty--hot over the basic issues such as the war in Vietnam, but over the tactics of dissent. That is all that has been talked about...
...polarization of the Harvard community would be harmful and serve no purpose. It is the responsibility of both SDS and the Administration to see that it does not happen...
Institute officials acted from the beginning as if there was already a polarization of interests in the community, as if SDS' aims were completely incompatible with their own. They assumed, at least, that SDS' demand for a public program was a threat to their desire to encourage informal contact between government officials and the academic community. So they offered no compromise...
...sharply critical of them. The Institute ought to be more flexible. It ought to encourage, though not require, the officials who come here to give at least one speech. And it ought to consider sharing the officials, for part of their stay, with student political groups--including SDS, if it's interested...