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November 5: While most Harvard students watched late at night, California toppled into Richard Nixon's column and gave him the electoral college majority. Some students didn't just watch. Nearly a hundred members of Harvard SDS joined a march on the Boston Common, at which six people were eventually arrested for assault and battery on police officers...
Nearly thirty Harvard students went to jail for joining protests in Boston. Twenty members of SDS who marched with welfare mothers to the State House were put in jail on several charges of trespassing and obstructing government business. Another nine students who had protested an MBTA fare increase were arrested for trespassing and disruption, but were soon released...
November 18: SDS met late into the night and decided to confront the University over the ROTC issue. Along with plans for a demonstration outside Dean Ford's office SDS members mulled over suggestions that they force their way into the next Faculty meeting to make it consider their ROTC arguments...
November 19: The SFAC held its first vote on ROTC resolutions. By a 16-9 vote, the SFAC killed a resolution nearly identical to the SDS demand that ROTC be immediately removed from campus. Two other ROTC resolutions were postponed until the next meeting...
November 20: Even though the SDS anti-ROTC position had lost in the SFAC, a Faculty member said he would present the resolution at the Faculty's next meeting. Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, said he would argue that ROTC had no :moral or political legitimacy" at Harvard...