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...SDS convenes a mass meeting to protest Harvard's "intransigence" on terminating ROTC contracts and "imperialist expansion" in Cambridge...
...People back then would stop doing drugs, forget their homework, and come out and participate," recalls Marjorie A. Angell '67-9, a former member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who joined the student protests...
Students couldn't fight the president, so they fought the authority around them," recalls one student activist. ROTC was seen by SDS members as the staffing mechanism for an army used to repress popular movements...
...least since the days of SDS in the late '60s, students have demanded divestiture--most forcefully when some Pan-Africanist students took over Massachusetts Hall in 1972. By now everyone should recognize that the Corporation is intransigent--so intransigent that Derek Bok merely reprinted his statements of 1978 in the Gazette in the spring of 1983. If students are serious about divestiture, they are going to have to exert power by boycotting the ACSR, by supporting the Endowment for Divestiture, by holding protests at alumni fund drives on campus, by gaining alumni endorsements, by boycotting classes, by picketing administration buildings...
Harvard first came under fire for its holdings in firms doing business in South Africa when the SDS in the late 1960s, charged that the University was involving itself in the seedier side of capitalism. But the SDS argued that the Harvard-South Africa connection was insignificant compared to other links Harvard had to institutionalized racism and oppression, including the U.S. military. After the SDS stormed University Hall in 1969, there was no mention of South Africa or Harvard's investment policies in the list of demands it released to the administration...