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There had been a discussion about whether to take over University Hall at one of the SDS meetings, but there hadn’t been a decision to actually do it. The people taking it over that day were a splinter group. Since we had been thinking of a takeover, we did have six demands—then we added two more to make eight at the takeover. Three of them had to do with kicking ROTC off campus. I don’t remember them exactly, I have a shirt at home with them all silk-screened onto...
...exactly what found the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1972 during their first year in the spring of 1969. On April 9, 1969, after a year of political turmoil and rising tensions between administrators and students nationwide, members of the Harvard chapter of the activist group Students for Democratic Society (SDS) took over University Hall. Late that night, University Hall was set upon by state troopers and the Cambridge police, who put an end to the occupation. The reverberations from the takeover are still felt on campus today, in ways ranging from the riot-proof design of Canaday Hall, which...
Susan P. Underwood ’72: I remember coming out of a science class that met from 12 to 1 and finding out that the SDS people had taken over University Hall. No one was blocking the way into the Yard yet, so I walked over to U-Hall and went...
...SDS people were in U-Hall all night before anything happened. During the afternoon, people were coming and going—I remember leaving to go to dinner. The University didn’t call the police until about 5 a.m. At that time, I was on the steps of the building; I wasn’t inside. I remember the police pushed people aside on the steps and started pulling people out of the building. They came in with their riot gear, masks and billy clubs. All of the freshman boys, who lived in the Yard, were just looking...
...bust itself was very upsetting—at 5 a.m. there was a piercing shriek, a high-pitched buzz. The SDS had pulled all of the fire alarms in all of the dorms when they figured out that there was a bust coming. Buses pulled up between Mem Church and Thayer, right outside my window. The state police had come out for this. It was like a scene out of the movies, out of Spartacus—they got off the bus, lined up in phalanxes and marched over to University Hall. I wonder if this was just...