Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marines came back. In February 1973, nine SDS members failed to confront a Marine recruiter at the OGCP. They said they wanted only to ask the recruiter some "pointed questions" about the role of the Marines, but dispersed when a receptionist told them the recruiter's schedule was full...
McRae, his companions and 15 followers marched "the last mile" yesterday morning from MIT along Mass Ave to Harvard in a light rain. McRae, Johnson and speakers from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and/the Harvard-Radcliffe SDS spoke on what they termed "apathy" and "racial insensitivity" on the part of academic institutions...
Bringing about progressive social change in capitalist America is certainly a difficult task, with institutional and political blocks, but certainly a prerequisite is this: the creation of a democratic majority seeking such changes. The sixties New Left (SDS and allies) saw this, and rejected democracy; campus liberalism despaired of gaining popular support among the masses of "reactionary" Americans. But in fact, the student movement never in any serious way directed itself towards the problems faced by the majority of the American people. Students talked, as we should have, about Vietnam--but we should have realized that it is impossible...
...Crimson article seemed designed to attack any movement of black and white students against racism. The Crimson would have better served the Harvard community by reporting the exact nature of Shockley's theories. Miriam Sagan '75 H-R SDS...
Cyril Boynes claims that "left wing white students" had "duped" black students into opposing Shockley. This is totally incorrect. The Harvard Law Forum responded to criticism from BALSA and from black Law School professors. The SDS had also circulated a petition demanding the cancellation of the debate. SDS itself is a multiracial organization...