Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week after the October 22, 1967 march on Washington, the one Norman Mailer '43 described in The Armies of the Night, 300 Harvard students imprisoned in Mallinckrodt for seven hours a recruiter from Dow Chemical, the principal manufacturer of napalm for use in Vietnam. Even SDS was caught by surprise. Its executive committee had called for simple picketing. But the 375 students who voluntarily turned in their bursar's cards to the administration adopted four demands: no on-campus recruiting by Dow, the CIA, or the U.S. military, and no disciplinary action against the demonstrators. President Nathan M. Pusey...
...Officers Training Corps were nothing short of byzantine, but there were two major anti-ROTC positions--that ROTC courses, not being up to Harvard's academic standards and being taught by instructors beyond Harvard's control, had no place in the university's catalogue; and a position held by SDS that ROTC's purpose was to staff an army used to violently repress popular movements such as the Vietnamese revolution, that there was no "right" to violent repression, and that ROTC therefore had no "right" to exist in any form. A hundred SDS sympathizers held a sit-in in Paine...
...IMPORTANT for understanding the Strike to understand what might be called 1969's moderate student mood. SDS never won the allegiance of anything like a majority of Harvard students. What it did succeed in doing was raising issues and articulating concerns that moderate students felt more tentatively. Even moderate students talked about Harvard in ways that might have been unthinkable a few years before and less pervasive a few years later--for instance, with a feeling of student powerlessness before Harvard's "governing board of a few rich people," as Jay Epstein '69, a onetime member...
Rockefeller said the NAM award was "not the kind I usually accept, "but added that "these people certainly look a lot better than SDS did six years...
...officials," John Monro, the dean of Students, said angrily, denouncing "mob rule" and joining Dean Watson in an official University apology--one seconded by 2700 undergraduates who signed an apologetic petition. McNamaras called the apology "unnecessary," recalling his own student days at Berkeley, but Monro took to meeting with SDS members regularly, and Harvard activism took on a new importance, menacing or hope-laden depending on the onlooker...