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...Faculty petition on the subject of Professor Herrnstein is an encouraging if belated sign in the continuing and increasingly acrimonious debate over the I.Q. test. Not only is the behavior of the SDS reprehensible in its own right, but it is essentially irrelevant to the issue. To allow this subject to be fought out at this level is to accept the proposition that the substantive issues involved are unimportant or meaningless, and, whoever "wins." this would further weaken the position of the forces of legitimate scholarship and intellectual freedom. It is, as I say, encouraging to find that there...
...While SDS'ers debated the relative merits of the Chinese, Cuban or Vietnamese revolutions, the crisis of an advanced industrial society--a crisis epochs removed from revolutionary upheavals in peasant societies--accelerated in the Nation around them. It was more exciting to glorify Che or Ho or Mao than to do the dirty work of researching and organizing around issues like rank-and-file revolts in trade unions, tenant conditions or day care...
...different--less visible--dynamic on the Left was simultaneously at work. Weary of irrelevant infighting, veteran Leftists dropped out of SDS in the late sixties and began organizing in unaffiliated collectives all over the country. In addition, people who entered the movement late in the sixties often found the existing organizations sterile and simply organized on their own, as independent radicals...
...statement and went to Davenport. Many, as previously mentioned, were ex-student radicals in their mid-twenties who now consider themselves part of the working class--white collar or blue collar--and have been organizing in communities on a variety of issues. Some of them were former SDS'ers--several people had been at Port Huron--but many were independent radicals who found NAM appealing because of its realism and openness...
...conference watered down the centralization plan. This was done for two reasons: a desire to broaden the organization's base by remaining decentralized and the desire to avoid the possibility that a central power structure might direct NAM in undemocratic ways. People remembered the SDS experience, when at times the national office would war with various factions by controlling the SDS newspaper, New Left Notes, and by scheduling conferences and conventions in locations where a preferred faction would be likely to predominate...