Word: sds
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...Spring of 1968, members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Organized against the presence of recruiters form corporations involved with either the Department of Defense or the Vietnam War. In particular, the students objected to Columbia scientists' work in the government's Institute for Defense Analyses...
...late April, SAS and SDS entered into a tenuous alliance. The University's expansion into Morningside Heights, SDS leaders argued, was analogous to the United States' expansion into Vietnam...
...alliance didn't last. In the early hours of the next morning, the more disciplined SAS leaders, citing different goals, told SDS members that they would have to leave...
...occupation drove a lot of SDS membersaway," Raines says. "The moderate students did notwant a struggle between the students and faculty...
...occupation] happened because the SDS usedit as a tactic to polarize the campus and used itto advance themselves," Raines says...