Word: sds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several days after SDS members took over University Hall, the Faculty acceded to student demands. Although only one Black student participated in the takeover, the threat of another student uprising motivated the Faculty to give Afro-Am department status...
When Richard Hyland '69 was asked by leaders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to chair a discussion of 450 protesters in University Hall, he simply took off his shoes, stood on a table and began calling on people...
...tried to figure out a little bit about how the world works, how political change happens, if it ever does," he says "I don't think it's a coincidence that I'm a law professor and that Michael [Kazin '70, then the chair of SDS] is a history professor...
...active member of SDS and a representative on the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, Hyland participated in his share of campus politics and protests...
...says Kazin asked him to chair the meeting because he stayed clear of the partisan squabbles that threatened to break SDS into ideological factions...