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...divestiture movement at Harvard has matured since its birth in the turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Inherited by Black activists from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1972, and then passed on to a broader based coalition in the late 1970s, the movement has undergone considerable change in its tactics and goals. The divestiture activists of 1983 who use both moral and financial persuasion bear little resemblance to those that 11 years ago seized University buildings and demanded divestiture by force...
...work against the Vietnam War, by the extremes of the Left as well as Right, for his insistence on working peacefully for reform through democratic institutions. No revolutionary, he repeatedly with student activists not to take up violence as a tactic of protest. The more radical--including the SDS and the man who ended Lowenstein's life with five bullets on March 14, 1980, Dennis Sweeney--denounced him as a reactionary trying to stem the leftward surges of the American student community. But Lowenstein could not support anyone who wanted to overthrow the established political system. Arthur Schlesinger '38 writes...
After the Paine Hall sit-in Faculty members began shaping proposals for the Faculty meeting of Feb 4. 1969. The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), one of the more radical student groups, demanded adoption of six major points including the expulsion of ROTC from Harvard and that the scholarships of Paine Hall students be returned. Because Faculty rules forbade students from advancing proposals. Pearson Professor of Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Hilary W Putnam presented the SDS proposal to the Faculty...
...coalesce in the early 1960s, focusing on the dehumanizing aspects of academic expansion into new areas of government-sponsored research, the broadening of technical and pre-professional graduate programs at the expense of liberal arts, and the willingness to subordinate these new "multiversities" to a higher national purpose. SDS's 1962 "Port Huron Statement" argued that prestigious schools had become entangled in an elite bureaucratic network that was engineering a Cold War abroad and serving corporate might, rather than popular will, at home...
...with less patience for theories and manifestos, linked universities to the planning and execution of the Vietnam War. They vowed to raze academia along with the rest of the Establishment to permit a "fresh start" for American society. In April 1969, a Marxist splinter group of the fast deteriorating SDS led a forceful takeover of Harvard's University Hall, telling the majority of the campus leftists, who had opposed the occupation. "You and the administration are the same thing, and we will smash you both...