Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrators should learn from the Columbia confrontation not to use police against students. For at Columbia "Moderate students who had opposed the sit-in-reacted to the police action by joining the radicals in a coalition calling for President Kirk's resignation." On the eve of the Harvard occupation, SDS itself defeated a motion calling for immediate seizure of a building each of the three times it was proposed. But the next day, the Maoist Worker. Student Alliance caucus of SDS moved in. It was only President Pusey's order for outside police to evacuate the building that "radicalized" other...
...April 9, 1969, Franklin L. Ford, then Dean of the Faculty, was forced by members of SDS to leave his office in University Hall. Later that day, on the steps of Widener Library, Ford announced through a bullhorn that "in order to minimize the risk of any spread of violence, the Yard will be closed until further notice." Early the next morning. Cambridge and other police entered the Yard and forcibly ejected the 200 students occupying the building...
...entire sophomore class for a year and to call in the local police to restore order to Harvard Yard. Fourth, the essay describes the sporadic and occasionally radical involvement of faculty and students in the political affairs of the nation. In this regard Lipset traces the origins of SDS to early socialist movements on campus at the turn of the twentieth century...
...1960s, Lipset argues, radicals had finally learned that "campaigns against intangible enemies like racism and war might have their place, but supporters could be won only by attacking nearby visible enemies on specific issues...a target in Cambridge was priceless." During the year of the Strike. Lipset writers, SDS had decided that in order to top its feats the year before at Columbia it would have to act at Harvard in a way "deliberately designed to provoke authority to be repressive." The forcible occupation of University Hall was the tactic decided upon, and the Pusey administration , Lipset suggests, responded just...
...SDS is gone, get Skinner's boxes...