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...Vote! Vote!!' Students [in front of University Hall] were demanding a binding vote of those present on whether the building should be taken over. SDS controlled the microphone, and they controlled the speaker, but the cries were too persistent. Finally one SDSer called for a vote. 'All those in favor of taking the building...
...that situation changed in April 1969, when several hundred students, led by members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), took over the University's main administrative building, calling for an end to campus Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs and Harvard's expansion into the community...
...SDS activists, Graham found an unexpected ally. When students started organizing to protest University policies, she began to talk to them, trying to find a common ground. When the takeover began, she actively supported it, helping to feed the students camped out in the building...
...month later, the situation had changed. The SDS demands at University Hall--and the subsequent, slightly different platform approved by a meeting of 6000 in Harvard stadium later that week--signaled that students and the city could unite. Harvard could no longer simply ignore its role in the city...
Sullivan says the climate of violence was primarily the result of activist groups from outside the city. Radical fringes of SDS, such as the Weathermen, converged on Cambridge in the late 1960s, as wave after wave of protest and revolt hit the universities...