Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find myself in the particularly galling position of sharing a belief, as an independent thinker, with a group. The belief is the immorality of ROTC and the group is SDS. The latest move on the part of SDS has left me in a quandry. On the one hand, I support the very issues which prompted the occupation of University Hall and I feel compelled as a "supposedly" moral, rational member of our fluid society to cast my vote in favor of the removal of ROTC from its present status on campus. And yet I am paralyzed by a desire...
...SUCCESS of this coalition depends on the willingness of the potential allies to make concessions to each other in order to force the crucial reconstitution of the Corporation. Though the Administration would not have been reduced to its present vulnerable state without the SDS initiative, the radicals cannot hope to dictate policy to all those who have new repudiated the Administration's action. In particular, the radicals should drop their demand that ROTC be immediately abolished and should join in demanding a student-faculty referendum that will be binding on the Corporation. As yesterday's meeting at Memorial Church showed...
...moderates, for their part, must continue to demand amnesty for the University Hall demonstrators. It is inconceivable to abandon the group which at great personal risk forced the necessary consideration of the issue. Furthermore, the moderates should join SDS in scrutinizing the University's often shamelessly selfish dealings with the Cambridge community...
...following are excepts from the official SDS statement issued early yesterday afternoon from University Hall...
Following an early morning SDS-sponsored rally against ROTC in front of Marsh Chapel, the students marched to the Financial Aid and Admissions Office on Bay State Road. Although B.U. police were guarding other administration buildings, there were none posted at that office. Demonstrators kicked open the locked doors and went in. They told the people working in the office that they did not intend to to disturb them...