Word: sds
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...result was the fiery conclusion of the 1969 sit-in in which the police evicted SDS occupiers. Even more vicious was the backlash—deans were critical and students said their president had lost all connection to their concerns...
...takeover of University Hall was crushed by a Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) squad that dragged Students for a Democratic Society protesters (SDS) out of the building against their will. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) 21-day takeover of Massachusettts Hall last year was crushed by promises of a Katz report. Administrators and police officers took a hands-off approach to the 2001 protest, confident that rallying cries for a living wage would be silenced by a bureaucratic committee and a stack of paperwork. But more significant than the administration’s changed tactics towards protest...
...women say they have prevailed in ROTC, many people protest other forms of discrimination in the program. The program has been kept off the campus for decades, although the reasoning has changed. Initially, the University booted ROTC in 1969 after pressure from members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) stormed University Hall and took over the administrative offices over night to protest the Vietnam War. Today though, ROTC's problems stem from gay rights issues and the military's seemingly prejudiced "don't ask, don't tell" policy against homosexuals. ROTC students say they tend not to mind trekking...
...sort through his years at Harvard, Epps says he has already written 300 pages of his memoir--and is just starting to tackle the tumultuous time of 1969, when University Hall was taken over by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Epps, then a young associate dean, was forcibly removed from the building by protesters...