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...know how it looks to you, but it looks to me like they're biting the hand that feeds." That it looks that way to Robert Gordon is one of the predictable ironies of last week's SDS demonstration at Boston University. The protest tried to raise the large question of moral priorities and University neutrality but became snagged on the commonplace frustration and anger of SDS's targets, the Gordons...
When Maurice Gordon announced March 12 that he was withdrawing a $500,000 gift from the B.U. School of Nursing, SDS quickly hailed the event "a very real victory." In a year when radicals have been sowing plenty but not doing much reaping, the elation was understandable. The protestors clearly had done something--but just what was not so clear...
...protest began back in January when a B.U. press release announced the $500,000 gift by "philanthropist" Maurice Gordon. SDS and B.U. would have preferred the epithet "slumlord" for the wealthy Boston real estate man. The News printed a story documenting Gordon's conviction for violation of the building code and pointing to his apartment holdings in Roxbury. SDS called on the University to refuse Gordon's "blood money...
...SDS thus responds by talking of de-centralization of authority as a means of making the government accountable to the people. Bundy's contrary position, insisting on a wider role for government, would be less valid if the radical view consisted of more than slogans that sound instinctively right. We are justified in asking for more concrete and practical proposals from the left to deal with the problems of complex, technological society...
...partially up to them whether they want our help," said Michael Schreiber, chairman of SDS at B.U., "SDS will probably try some form of fund-raising...