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...front page article, "SDS Threatens ROTC Confrontation" (Nov. 19), misrepresents SDS as an organization eager for violent confrontation regardless of issues. The CRIMSON distorts our tactics and deemphasizes our goals--for example, the direct misquote of Toby Campion regarding the December 3rd Faculty meeting: "We will bust through physically and make ourselves known by our noise and numbers." Campion in fact said the opposite: that we should have a large rally December 3rd to demand the abolition of ROTC but that this does not mean we should bust in physically. No decision was made Monday night concerning tactics...
...SDS resolution calls for the removal of ROTC on "moral" grounds, charging that ROTC training "supports America's policy of suppressing popular revolutions...
...SDS meeting, members had threatened to "physically confront" Ford and the Faculty if they did not consider the resolution at the December meeting...
...December Faculty meeting will consider an SDS petition to expel ROTC from the campus, while a milder resolution aimed only at removing ROTC's academic status will remain in the Committee on Education Policy...
Ford said yesterday that Hillary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, plans to introduce a resolution calling for ROTC's removal from the campus at the Faculty meeting on December 3. Putnam's resolution will be similar to one passed at an SDS meeting on Monday, Ford said. Putnam was not available last night to comment on the report, but several SDS members confirmed that Putnam would present the SDS resolution...