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Pell denied that the SDS anti-ROTC campaign had any affect on students' desire to join ROTC. He said that the decline in applications was merely evidence that the panic caused by last year's cancellation of graduate deferments had subsided...
Mentioning "radical change" was ironic, for SDS is Young Dems' most feared rival. Not really hated, but the existence of SDS gives some YD's their sense of mission. The sixty voters who tried to breathe life into the corpse did so because "Harvard needs a moderate voice on campus...
...Harvard students are notoriously indifferent to Cambridge politics. Being out-of-towners, they are usually groping after one or two years just for a niche at Harvard. "It's not easy to ring doorbells for someone nobody has ever heard of before," Schumer admitted. "But you know how SDS keeps going? They get a core of 25 people to work full time on some project. I've never seen a group with so much Protestant ethic." Club officers hope, perhaps mistakenly, that McCarthyism without McCarthy can whip up campus enthusiasm for Council elections and busy-work democracy...
...many who elected him. These people see in the club an ideological bastion of campus moderatism, the "real" voice of the student majority at Harvard. One admitted motive for YD interest in Cambridge's housing problems is to head off the radicals on this issue. The YD's regard SDS people as fomentors of trouble to whom they must respond--particularly in defense of civil liberties...
...wish to voice our solidarity with the Black students who stopped "An End to Urban Violence" and maintain that neither the Corporation, the Faculty, nor even a committee of students should have the "academic freedom" to give a racist course. Becky Kaplan, SDS Carl Pomerance, SDS Art Small, SDS...