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...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 protests by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which gained momentum through 1969 to the April takeover of University Hall...
...Richard E. Hyland '69 was only 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 occupiers primarily because he was not involved with the internal SDS political wrangling...
...Levenson '71 was a sophomore in Adams House at the time, and among a minority of students who did not support the ideas, let alone the tactics, of SDS. He even approved of the decision by Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 to send in the local police...
...Levenson felt that the SDS robbed him of his right to an education. He says the students delighted in more than the high-minded purpose of the their protest--they loved the excitement...
...occupiers rifled through files in the deans' offices, University officials mulled their options. Most of the protestors were members of the national student radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They were not the first to take over buildings in the late '60s, and the University had been preparing itself for such a possibility since the summer of 1968. In January, the Harvard Corporation, the University's highest governing board, had given President Nathan M. Pusey '28 permis- sion to call the police in the event of adisruption at Harvard...