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...your sophomore year, you will recall for example, there was a considerable furor over who should or should not be permitted on campus to interview graduating students for possible jobs. The SDS, playing on a dissatisfaction widely held in our community, made an inflammatory issue out of the presence of a Dow recruiter on the campus, implying that his presence proved the University's insidious complicity in the hated war effort...
...other hand, the split between SMC-YSA and SDS-PL is significant. It revolves about a conflicting view of the nature of the struggle, both in terms of tactics, and in the terms of the ultimate goal. The conflict is not taken lightly by the organization. Recently at M. I. T. there were fistfights between the two factions. In March, at the Boston Moratorium, run by the SMC, SDS had to storm the stage to get a speaker. Earlier, at the November March on Washington, run by the New Mob, some people crowded around the speakers platform were most reluctant...
...SDS-PL group felt the SMC was trying to sell out the movement to the hands of liberal politicians, whose sincerity was dubious. They were sensitive to the fact that the SMC is financed by Cyrus Eaton, an industrialist. They felt that the conference had dealt with union leaders, but not with the rank and file members. They attacked the non-exclusionary sentiment of the SMC group which would allow the movement to tolerate liberal politicians who happened to be against...
...group, on the other hand, felt that SDS and PL were being unrealistic and were likely to isolate the movement by attacking too many people. They were in favor of constructing an alliance with those forces in power which would be helpful in ending the war. They felt that SDS and PL were too concerned about the purity of the allies that SMC wanted...
...situation where being against the Vietnam war can mean anything from supporting Vietnamization to wanting victory for the National Liberation Front, the subtleties of political stances can be very confusing. To label one SDS-PL and the other SMC-YSA is on oversimplification...