Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Said one Harvard senior a few weeks ago: "What happened was that everyone from the upper class joined PL [Progressive Labor party] and all the middle-class kids joined NAC [heir to the old SDS New Left caucus] or became Weathermen. Now the rich kids are going out to the factories and the middle-class ones are going to become doctors and lawyers. The revolution does seem far away...
...bombing provoked a torrent of critical reactions on campus-much of it from student radicals. NAC condemned the bombing on tactical grounds, as did SDS and PL, who chanted "Mass Actions, Not Mad Bombings." Most students and Faculty were unanimous in their denunciation of the bombing, and a Young Americans for Freedom rally in protest against the bombing drew more than 200 people...
...remainder of the year saw the death of the radical student movement against the CFIA. SDS challenged Center officials to a debate; after weeks of dickering over the procedures, the two groups participated in a widely attended but otherwise uneventful exchange in mid-January. Following the failure of their campaign against the CFIA, SDS then decided to personalize the issue and demand the firing of Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government, who has consulted with a number of government agencies on the Vietnam war. But after a few angry responses from perturbed Faculty members, that campaign too died...
...incident occurred after an SDS demonstration protesting Harvard's inaction following the drowning of two children in "Muddy Pond," a University-owned marsh in Jamaica Plain. Harvard has since agreed to fill in the pond. Kennedy, however, has no administrative connection with the matter...
...were their predecessors in a similar poll taken last year of the class of '45. (Unless that class, too, has dramatically retrenched over the course of the past year.) Seventy-six per cent would object to their son becoming a hippie (making that avocation slightly worse than that of SDS leader, to which 75 per cent of the fathers recoil. Eighty-three per cent believe President Pusey was right in calling in the police to bust University Hall in '69. Only 25 per cent think victory in Vietnam is undesirable. Sixty-eight per cent support ROTC in public and private...