Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the New American Movement (NAM) Monday night called on all members of the Harvard community to support the 32 lithographers and bookbinders of the Graphic Arts International Union in their strike against the Harvard University Printing Office...
...SDS and NAM are also attempting to obtain the backing of the faculty and other University organizations for the strikers. Richard Lewontin, professor in Population Genetics, has gone on record as supporting the strikers. "They deserve the money," he said last night...
...support the protest itself. On the day of the Paine Hall sit-in, stalwarts of the Faculty's liberal wing like Stanley Hoffman and Michael Walzer, professors of Government, told students they thought the sit-in was a tactical error and would not further the anti-ROTC cause. Even SDS-connected Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, told the students, "You shouldn't regard the Faculty as your enemy...
...Faculty came out of the Paine Hall incident looking lenient, and seemed to be steering a course of cautious liberalism the next month when it withdrew academic credit from ROTC, though voting down at the same time an SDS-backed proposal to expel ROTC completely. But a week after the ROTC vote, a new controversy struck the Faculty much closer to home and widened the gap between the Faculty and student radicals...
...SDS repudiated him. Seven Harvard students who acknowledged having "been involved to varying degrees in the recent activities which the press has associated with King Collins" repudiated him. "King Collins's group has only one person in it," Collins said: "King Collins." When Harvard had him arrested for trespassing, inside of a week fundraising drives in Cambridge and New York raised almost $10,000 towards his bail--in 1963, the friends of a Harvard student sent to a Georgia jail for taking part in a civil rights demonstration had been able to raise about $2000 for his defense over several...