Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political potential for male-female relationships in modern American society will give thanks that at least one Harvard publishing unit is still willing to lose money on an item of political and social importance--such as this complete collection of letters between Dean of Students Archie Epps and SDS Vice President Katherine Moos (distributed by the University to all dormitory rooms last month) concerning SDS's recent National Convention Against Racism. Ever the romantic, Freidel says of Lash's book. "Nothing so fresh and intimate has appeared since Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins'": we can similarly compliment the editors...
...simple memo from Moos to Epps requesting Harvard facilities for "a Convention on Racism." (Note that in this early missive no preconceived normative judgements concerning racism are implied.) Little can be said about this opening volley; it would be unfair to infer a subtle threat when Moos continues the SDS tradition of relating better to administration buildings than to their occupants by saying: "I or other members of SDS would like to discuss costs and other arrangements with your office." One problem is that this is the only document in the collection which is not magnificently reproduced in its original...
After receiving this muffled cry of loss. Moos apparently decided to begin again, and her second foray starts: "As the vice-president of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) I would like to request the use of Harvard University facilities..." But the administration was not to be soothed, for Epps's reply contains, buried in the fourth paragraph of an otherwise sensible discussion concerning the distinction between a local convention of a national group and a national convention of a local group, a brief excursion into the twilight zone of panic and uncertainty: "I shall be grateful...
Although Herrnstein maintains he is not disheartened by the CRR's verdict, he said that he found some news of the week before much more gratifying. On April 12, President Bok publicly warned that the anti-Herrnstein protests had serious effects beyond the well-being of one professor. SDS's protests threaten to make scholars "turn to more placid subjects where risks are not involved," Bok said...
Only in retrospect does it seem obvious that the meeting would choose the middle road, rejecting SDS's proposal for "militant action against Harvard" concerning such topics as the CRR, approving support of antiwar political candidates and yesterday's one-day moratorium, but still insisting on a longer strike and complete support for the blacks occupying Massachusetts Hall. Two conditions unique in Harvard mass meeting history may have contributed to this result: sound connections between Sanders Theatre and Lowell Lec which really worked, and a chairman--economics teaching fellow Paddy Quick--who could really apply Roberts Rules to 2000 easily...