Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just despite these objections to the article, but indeed because of them that I wanted to be included among the signers of the statement protesting the nature of the attacks on Herrnstein. First, I am angry that SDS and UAG have (once again) undermined efforts to debate the issues raised by the publication of the Herrnstein article by diverting the attention of the Community to the nature of the their attacks on Herrnstein. Second, I feel very strongly that those of us on the Left have the obligation and the self-interest to speak out against threats to academic freedom...
...members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Ira D. Helfand '72 and Mary L. Perkins, were arrested on February 1 during a clash with Boston policemen and private security guards at the British Consulate in the Prudential Tower in Boston...
...clash occurred after about 75 members of SDS had marched to the Prudential Center February 1 to protest the deaths of the 13 Irish civilians who were killed by British troops in Londonderry on January...
Helfand was separated from Harvard last June, two days before his planned graduation, for being a member of a group which subjected Sargent Kennedy '28, then secretary to the Corporation, to "intense personal harassment" during an SDS rally...
...SDS had called the rally to protest Harvard's inaction following the deaths of two children in Muddy Pond, a Harvard-owned marsh located in Jamaica Plain. The University later agreed to fill in the pond, and the project was completed last summer...