Word: sds
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Speakers at the Yard rally will include Michael Ansara, a former member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Eneritus, Sandra Graham, a Cambridge city counselor, and professors from Boston University and the University of Massachusetts, Perry G. Merhling '81, the committee chairman, said yesterday...
...occupation had begun in the early afternoon of April 9. About 300 demonstrators had taken the building to publicize a list of six demands approved at an SDS-sponsored meeting: abolition of Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs and contracts; replacement of all ROTC scholarships with University scholarships; reinstatement of the scholarships of students disciplines in the wake of an earlier anti-ROTC demonstration at Paine Hall; a roll-back in rents on all Harvard-owned buildings to their January 1, 1968 level; no destruction of black workers' homes to allow for expansion of the Medical School...
...proposals that students occupy University Hall to support the demands. Instead, about 300 demonstrators marched onto the grounds of the house of then President Nathan M. Pusey '28 on Quincy St., the building that now headquarters the Harvard Corporation. Led by Jessie L. Gill--a tenant's organizer and SDS militant who had been active in tacking the community-oriented demands on to the list of anti-ROTC proposals--the group marched up to the house. Gill then pushed aside a guard and tacked the list of demands to the door...
...next day, April 9, hundreds of students gathered in the Yard at noon, for a rally and reading of the SDS demands. The Crimson originally reported that the crowd outside University Hall approved the seizure of the building by an 800-400 vote. In fact, as was subsequently reported a majority of the crowd apparently opposed the move. Within 15 minutes, students had swarmed into University Hall and ejected several administrators, including Robert B. Watson '37, dean of students and later athletic director; Archie C. Epps III, then assistant dean of the College and now dean of students; F. Skiddy...
Five hours after the police raid, 2000 students gathered in Memorial Church and voted overwhelmingly to authorize a three-day strike of classes. The SDS backed the strike, but support for the move went far beyond a "radical" faction that wanted to make abolition of ROTC the key issue, and "moderates" who wanted largely to protest the administration's handling of the occupation, and the subsequent police violence. The meeting also called for the dropping of all criminal charges against arrested demonstrators...