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Although Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the radical group which led the occupation, attacked the ad hoc committee as illegitimate, it won praises from many in the Harvard community for imposing mild punishments on all but a few of the University Hall protesters...
That same year, a well-known Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) member was required to withdraw three days before graduation for occupying the Government Department's office for six hours. The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), which handed down both decisions, explained that the SDS member was punished more harshly because she had a previous disciplinary record...
...remember seeing SDS [Students for a Democratic Society] on campus and thinking what's the point, what can college students do?" says Tynan, a reporter for Time magazine...
Several organizations, including the activist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the student government, attacked ROTC courses as being of "inferior intellectual quality" and the field for being unqualified as "an academic discipline." Many felt ROTC courses were too easy and that funding could be diverted to more novel areas, like the Afro-American Department, which was founded that year...
However, the SDS linked campus ROTC units to the U.S. military and the unpopular Vietnam War, and demanded that Harvard break off all ties with the military training program as part of a list of demands made during the University Hall takeover in April 1969. The University responded the next day by sending in state and local police units to forcibly remove protesters, an action which resulted in the arrest of 250 activists and dozens of injuries...