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...SDS had six demands, but the most important andmost widely supported was the first: that theUniversity abolish ROTC immediately. To manystudents, Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corpswas the most egregious of the University's ties tothe military. The students inside the buildingvoted to offer only nonviolent resistance shouldpolice storm the building...
Support for SDS and the confrontational tacticsfavored by some of their members was not strongamong the student body as a whole. A rough poll ofstudents in the Yard showed a two-to-one marginagainst the takeover...
...wave of student radicalism sparking riots and protests across the country could not be held back even by Harvard's formidable traditions. The campus was thrown into tumult by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), whose protests gained momentum through 1969 to the April takeover of University Hall...
Richard E. Hyland '69 was a prominent SDS member at the time of the takeover but not involved in the leadership. Michael Kazin '72, the embattled SDS leader, asked him to preside over the building's occupiers primarily because he was not involved with internal SDS political wrangling...
...Levenson '71 was a sophomore in AdamsHouse at the time and among a minority of studentswho did not support the ideas, let alone thetactics, of SDS. He approved of the decision byHarvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 to send inthe local police...