Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evil war--the financial link to the military, the conduit for Harvard students into the war itself, was so direct, so tangible, that it became the focus for the anti-war protests on campus. As time passed, more and more students accepted the arguments of the activists in SDS: ROTC must go. The Faculty, led by then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty, did not agree. "Harvard is involved in the war in Vietnam like any other agency or organization of the American people," Ford had told students in 1967, and that...
...Faculty did take some steps against ROTC--voting in February, 1969, to strip ROTC courses of academic credit, and to revoke the Corporation appointments of ROTC instuctors--but it overwhelmingly rejected the SDS demand that Harvard expel ROTC from campus. Gen. C.P. Hammun, national director of the ROTC program, announced the next day that the prospects of keeping ROTC were "extremely good...
Several students who helped organize the 1969 strike, which resulted in more than 200 arrests, defended the decision to take over University Hall. "The occupation was not one of our mistakes," Michael Ansara, a leader of SDS during the strike, who also spoke at an afternoon rally yesterday in the Yard, said...
April 1969: A Ten Year Retrospective--Mike Ansara (see above); Ken Glazier, former president, Student/Faculty Advisory Committee; Skip Griffin, former president, Afro; Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government; Carl Offner, former member of SDS Worker-Student Alliance; and Frances Fox Piven, professor of Political Science, Boston University; ARCO forum, Kennedy School...
...group is organizing informal discussions in dining halls Friday night with former members of SDS or the Class of '69, Merhling added...