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...that it reflects national trends that they're interested in. In the more politicized time of the ROTC controversy, when people had to make their arguments explicit and defend their premises, the differences came out quite strongly. Most of the Provisionals, then centered around Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), wanted ROTC kicked off campus because they thought an organization like the United States Army didn't have the right to exist. The Official committees of those days, on the other hand, had long and involved debates about whether ROTC courses met Harvard's academic standards and whether Army-appointed...
...week before the scheduled debate, the Law Forum abruptly cancelled it, citing pressure for cancellation, black law students and professors and the SDS. Innis and Shockley both blasted the forum's decision...
Replacing SDS as the major leftwing political group at Harvard, NAM--a national but decentralized group with several student chapters, founded two years ago last fall--has worked hard to generate support for several different issues among a largely apathetic student body. Using a wide array of tactics, including leafletting, rallies, teach-ins, and guerilla theater, the approximately 30 members of the group have culled a moderate response at best...
...there seemed to be little prospect for enticing students out of the libraries and into the streets. Then, on April 9, 32 printers went out on strike against the University, demanding a larger wage increase than the 5.5 per cent that Harvard offered. A week later, NAM, together with SDS, announced its campaign to generate support among the Harvard community for the striking workers. Members of the group began collecting money for advertisements, and circulated a petition among students and faculty...
Katherine J. Moos '75 of SDS and the coalition said that she and others and already contacted about 200 graduating seniors who signed a petition backing the strikers, and that "almost all" had expressed interest in participating in some form of display of support for the strike at Commencement, including carrying signs and wearing placards...