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James C. Pinney '67, a former member of Students for a Democratic society (SDS), the left-wing student group that led anti-Vietnam War demonstrations here, says operation Desert Storm is 'a fine and just and honorable war." But Ellen J. Messing '72-'73, a former SDS co-chair who was suspended twice and prosecuted twice for her participation in demonstrations, and Aldyn J.B. McKean '70-'71, who joined messing in the student occupation of University Hall in August, 1969, are both actively protesting the Gulf...
...movement obviously mushroomed," says Gitlin, who was a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a national New Left group...
Singh owns the place now, and one is unsure which jarring and inapposite piece of his biography best begins to explain him: That he is a former SDS organizer who is building a Ritz-Carlton hotel? Or that he is a developer whose fondest wish is to run away with Sea Shepherd, a Greenpeace splinter group, and ram whale ships? Perhaps that he is a 36-year-old Massachusetts- born Sikh of French-Canadian extraction, in a turban and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt? Or that he read about this 102-acre property one Sunday in 1986 and bought...
...thick, round glasses; his beard, unshaved since he was 17, is sparse and wiry. Born Paul LaBombard, he was, in adult eyes, a bad influence on anybody who knew him as a teenager. He ran away from his working-class family, smoked dope and organized a high school SDS chapter. Lacking money for college, he spent two winters camping out and gathering shells for a living in Key West. He was arrested at the Mayday antiwar demonstrations in Washington in 1971, and spent three days locked up in the basement of the Department of Justice. Afterward he sought spiritual growth...
April 10--Police raid University Hall to remove the protesters. SDS members vote to strike...