Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writers of the pamphlet--a group of students sympathetic to the eight SDS demands--said in a statement that they objected to the idea of forcing people out of their homes at all rather than to the lack of relocation plans. The pamphlet concerned itself specifically with the area to be torn down for the new Affiliated Hospitals Center...
...Whether SDS was attempting solely to disrupt the compus is a question which I doubt will be answered. And the moderates who are now raging are not concerned with the ROTC program but more with the rash actions of President Pusey. I would like to ask this--does anyone care about the ROTC problem? Or is everyone so awed about "unrest at Harvard," thereby completely forgetting why there was such unrest...
...should remain neutral or at least say nothing of what I think. However, in my short eight weeks in the Air Force I've become very frightened. The domestic influence of the military has never been so evident before. Now I see it all from the inside. When SDS babbles of the "military-industrial complex" they are more close to the truth than even they themselves believe. The "complex" is all-encompassing, all-powerful, all-knowing, and every other adjectival clause one can dream...
Since such indifference and passive waiting for support to accrue is no longer justified on SDS' part and since this present struggle must be won SDS ought to do two things. 1) Drop the three expansion demands for the time being. The issue has been raised and it ought to reappear after more research and study has been done and after much more political education has been carried out in the Houses on the matter; and 2) the machinery for setting up political brigades should be re-vitalized (or vitalized) and mass support built up in the Houses...
...Herb Gintis and Jon Supak point out in their leaflet, it is clear that restructuring can be approached in a constructive and radical fashion as much as it can be used as a smoke screen to erode radical stands. In view of the student interest that the issue kindled, SDS ought to have taken care to put forward its own position on the matter and attempted to work on the problem. The worst possible tactic, the one that was followed by SDS, was to treat the restructuring issue with steely and stubborn indifference. And yet, as long as SDS does...