Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENTS of the last five days have left the majority of the Harvard community confused and dismayed. The SDS tactic was repulsive, the violent police raid used to defeat it even more disgusting, but worst of all is the prespect that the University is now splitting so violently that its survival is endangered. The temptation for moderates to despair and give up politically is overwhelming, but this is precisely the time when they must not quit as a political force...
They must not, for instance, support continuing the three-day strike as a vague sign of student solidarity. Such solidarity does not now exist; and with SDS providing the only coherent leadership, continued participation implies endorsement. For at least three days, moderates ought to suspend their participation in the strike and use that period to revive their leadership and political identity...
...Overseers should take this opportunity to invite students representing different organizations, including SDS, to speak at their meeting. John and Adele Simmons...
...moment, no group represents everyone who supports a democratic, non-militarist and non-expansionist university. But unity Can be achieved. The strike steering committee set up by students who initially supported SDS's six demands was designed to be expanded, and the six demands can be added to and clarified. Students who find themselves for the most part in agreement with this group's demands should, as the strike proceeds, attend and participate in the meetings of the radical strike group. These are not SDS meetings, but simply meetings of people who support the radical demands...
WITH CHARACTERISTIC ineptitude, the Corporation yesterday announced its own plan for restructuring University decision-making. It created a body of students and Faculty to advise President Pusey in such crises as the one he faced Wednesday night. This 68-man Duma, which includes no members of SDS or Afro, was created in a transparent effort to shore up the C0orporation's weakening image among campus moderates, and to legitimize the President's reactions to future crises...