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...Spring of 1968, members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Organized against the presence of recruiters form corporations involved with either the Department of Defense or the Vietnam War. In particular, the students objected to Columbia scientists' work in the government's Institute for Defense Analyses...
...late April, SAS and SDS entered into a tenuous alliance. The University's expansion into Morningside Heights, SDS leaders argued, was analogous to the United States' expansion into Vietnam...
...criticized both the SDS for the occupationand the administration's use of police force totake them out," says Frank D. Raines '71, chair ofSFAC, who delivered a speech on the steps ofWidener during the student occupation. "I did notagree with SDS in most of the issues...
...occupation drove a lot of SDS membersaway," Raines says. "The moderate students did notwant a struggle between the students and faculty...
...occupation] happened because the SDS usedit as a tactic to polarize the campus and used itto advance themselves," Raines says...