Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time to accept SDS...
...Corporation membership probably represents the only area where SDS rhetoric has been too cautious. The Fellows fill their own vacancies by the same procedure, having a survey committee solicit a wide range of recommendations, but the process has resulted in an incredibly homogeneous body. Four lawyers, three of them with extensive financial interests which have been repeatedly publicized by radicals, serve on the Corporation; the fifth Fellow, A. L. Nickerson, is a Republican from New York City who heads the Mobil oil company. With the exception of the youngest Fellow, Hugh Calkins from Cleveland, the Fellows maintain nearly identical life...
Bennett has been criticized by SDS for investing Harvard's money in Middle South Utilities, a holding company for allegedly racist utility companies in the Deep South. Even if the companies do not discriminate, it might be considered unusual for Harvard's treasurer to invest the University's funds in a corporation which he has served as a director since its founding in 1949 and in which his own investment firm and he personally have financial interest. Middle South might be a profitable investment, but what seems like a possible conflict of interest could in some cases result in imprudent...
However, an SDS spokesman said last night that it is unlikely that students who have been boycotting the hearings all along will now appeal. SDS opposes the Committee as "illegitimate," and demands no punishment on the grounds that any action taken fighting for the seven demands is fully justified...
Heimert said yesterday that "a small number" of the students charged have appeared for their hearings despite the SDS boycott. He did not disclose the exact number...