Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March of 1972, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the nationwide radical campus group, needed a place to hold a convention. It appeared that no Ivy League school would accomodate them, until the Phillips Brooks House Association agreed to allow the organization to reserve rooms...
Andrew L. Creighton '81, recounts the legend surrounding the commotion. The University police, in an attempt to deny the SDS access to Harvard, locked all the gates to the Yard. However, a custodian of Phillips Brooks House had ferreted away a key to the gate some years before. Using the key, 150 SDS members snuck into the building, and the convention proceeded without further incident...
...SDS story illustrates the tendency of the PBH Association (PBHA), the building's principle tenant, to support progressive social and political outfits. The difference between the House itself and the Association has led to a good deal of confusion. PBHA, Harvard's largest undergraduate organization, is a social action group accommodating a wide variety of volunteer placements...
March 2, 1970. Tonight, a group allegedly from the SDS (that's Students for a Democratic Society, for those of you who are really younger than I want to believe) allegedly set out to allegedly burn down Shannon Hall, the building that housed Harvard's ROTC program. But they were denied free access to the building when campus police aided by Minutemen-like freshman athletes blocked their path. Said the Boston Herald: "The marchers were denied when they confronted a group of freshmen jocks." The aforementioned "jocks" were a group of freshmen who for the most part had been watching...
RANDY BARBER used to have long hair. In patched overworn jeans he would trek form the green hills of Hanover to the SDS centers on the East Coast mustering support for the dying antiwar movement, organizing, demonstrating. He formed the Peoples Bicentennial Commission in an effort to remind Americans of their radical past, producing rushed superficial works like Voices of the American Revolution. He organized the Midnight Ride to Concord in April...