Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of Afro and SDS joined the protest against the Design School's course on Urban Violence. Afro members said the course was "obviously designed to put down riots," and agreed to attend the first course meeting en masse. SDS published a leaflet saying that "students should demand that the course be cancelled...
...SDS meeting, members heard about chances to work as fruit-pickers this summer under a program sponsored by the Cuban government and national SDS. The meeting also approved two resolutions, one demanding that Harvard expel ROTC, the other saying that the Corporation should not drive working-class Cambridge residents from their homes...
...guerrilla movement was organized in which 175 students pledged themselves to fight like Lawrence of Arabia. Four athletic credits were granted to students participating in guerrilla warfare. One alumnus suggested last night that that the Administration might offer similar credits to SDS members today...
...expressed admiration for the students tempered their praise with warnings. Most had only sharp criticism for SDS or "those longhaired radicals who physically molest deans." Monday's symposium on the crisis at Harvard impressed most of them, but one said he felt that if SDS members were ever given a position of power "they would probably just go back to smoking point and ignore problems...
DURING THE April crisis, these minor irritations were further inflamed. On the evening of the University Hall takeover, President Pusey released his first statement on the SDS demands. On the expansion demands he said: "There are no plans to tear down any apartments on University Road nor are any homes being torn down to make way for Harvard Medical School expansion." It seems incredible that Pusey could have supposed reporters would not investigate the conflicting claims, but it is hard to account for his statement otherwise...