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Local resident George U. Kucewicz, a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the late 1960s, was on campus this weekend to observe the formation of a new national student activist organization. in Sever and Emerson Halls...
...beginnings [of SDS] were not dissimilar to this," Kucewicz said...
...SDS was high on participation and low ondefinition. Nowadays, student activists havereversed that," he said...
...memories of 1969 persist. The picture of an anti-war student in the Faculty Room of University Hall remains one of the most famous images of twentieth-century Harvard. Student activists ever since then have had to contend with implicit, sometimes unfair, comparisions to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at University Hall.The University remembers 1969, too: anyone who lives in a building constructed after the takeover can sleep soundly at night in a riotproof dorm...
There is a danger, through, in reducing 1969 to a symbol.We shouldn't forget that the protests also set into motion a number of important institutional changes whose effects are still felt today. The basic goal of SDS and the protestors was to force the University to server its ties with the military and in particular to eliminate the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus. It is ironic that as this anniversary passes, a bill is before the Undergraduate Council to reverse this hard-won reform...