Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although SDS had obtained a permit and approved leaflets for the demonstration, Mahmoud Ayoub, a Lebanese graduate student who helped organize the protest, said yesterday that the picketers were not members of SDS but "just friends." "We are just a group of individuals," Ayoub said. "We are grateful that SDS got the permit and did not try to control our demonstration...
...SDS action last year was distortion and threat, says Herrnstein. This is not true. The assertion that critics did not read "IQ" is false. SDS sold over 2000 copies on campus and encouraged people to read it. He claims that SDS created an atmosphere of intimidation in Soc Sci 15. Herrnstein's refusal after the first lecture to allow any questions except those of clarification in fact prevented open discussion. Finally, Herrnstein says the campaign was the effort of ten or twelve who succeeded in convicing others of their distortion. Hundreds across the country signed statements deploring his racism...
...data and of the seriousness of the social policy he advocates. By publishing again in a popular news magazine, providing no new evidence to prove his case, and by calling for social policy whose application could only be racist, Herrnstein is acting as a political organizer, not a scholar. SDS feels he should be responded to as such...
Beth Kilbreth is a member of SDS and lives in Cambridge...
Herrnstein said that SDS has never asked him to publicly discuss his book. He added that he would turn down such a request from SDS. "They may have had a sudden change of heart, but after 20 months of dealing with SDS, I've never known them to be serious," he said...