Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students often have strong images. The SDS seems to believe that the 1969 occupation of University Hall at Harvard University was obviously justified-not merely justified, but obviously justified-so long as it is acknowledged that it was a political act. They further believe that to prove a political act it is enough to show that it had political results. The occupation did have political results. I have never understood why the political motives are a good excuse, but I am convinced that some students think so. Somewhere there must be an analogy so obvious to them that they...
Also included in the latest packet is a report on an SDS demonstration in West Philadelphia in April 1968. The report states that "there were no incidents during the course of this demonstration," but lists the names of eight demonstrators and their affiliations with such groups as SDS and the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy...
...CRIMSON article on May 1 states SJP Program Director Stephen Rosen's allegation that "SJP did not aim to cause SDS reaction by scheduling a pro-administration teach-in." I didn't think it necessary to repeat this allegation...
John Pennington '67-1, charged by Harvard with violating the resolution on Rights and Responsibilities and with disturbing a public assembly, has claimed that Harvard "is singling me out for special punishment because I'm a communist and a former national secretary of SDS...
...SDS and PL can persuasively attack the University for complicity in imperialism at home and abroad because the University has instrumentalized itself. It has said that moral judgments are irrelevant, that research is value-free, that the wanton slaughter of Orientals is less important than the niceties of free speech. Such is the sickness of "pure rationality." The University produces Walt Rostows. Henry Kissingers, McGeorge Bundys. It can carry on its affairs with a president who refuses to see undergraduates, and a dean who blithely and automatically reduces emotionally-charged issues such as equal sex admissions to an abstract discussion...