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...time it was clear that SDS was going to strike, the political climate became favorable for those who wanted to press for more," says Roderick J. Harrison '70, an associate professor of Afro-American studies and sociology...
...scheduled for the announcement of the standing committee's plans was a poorly chosen one--it was on that day that the SDS-led students occupied University Hall and changed the entire political climate at Harvard...
According to Kelman, The Crimson refused to properly cover the activities of the more moderate Young People's Socialist League, which he says initiated the debate over ROTC. Instead, The Crimson focused almost exclusively on the SDS radicals...
...Harvard was one of the major strikes in the spring of '69," Grele says, adding that the campus "had one of the largest SDS [contigents] in the country." SDS--Students for a Democratic Society--was a national progressive student organization which helped to spur campus demonstrations nationwide at the height of its membership in the late...
Harvard's SDS chapter of 800 members was active since the mid-'60s, and although sharply divided, it mounted what many former students say was a particularly democratic demonstration. "Unlike Columbia, we did not have leaders or official spokesmen--the media had a hard time figuring out who was quotable," says Jon Weiner, who was a graduate student and SDS member during the strike. "There were meetings of 1000 people every night and different chairpersons every time," Weiner adds...