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Last night, members of the Coalition came to the steps of Fayeweather and demanded a chance to "get even" with the demonstrators inside. "Three years of the administration giving in to SDS is a long time to restrain ourselves," one said...
...large number of serious, discontented, left-leaning people on this campus who, while they stay out of the statement-making and infighting of daily political affairs, muster their personal commitment in the clutch to go so far as to do something illegal for the cause. Someone in SDS once called them their "shock troops...
These are the people who make or break a Dow demonstration at Harvard. It was their numbers that blockaded Dow recruiter Fred Leavitt last October three days after Federal troops had driven them off the steps of the Pentagon. This seeming strength of their organization then led some SDS leaders, in their more extravagant moments, to threaten closing down the University. But it is this pivotal group--let's call them the liberal activists--which has recently turned away from SDS, and which probably really didn't believe in them anyway...
What is most important is that the liberal activists never really know what SDS is doing or how they decide on policies. They find out what they know through the media--from the Crimson on Harvard events, and from the national press about far-off places like Wisconsin and B.U. The press, of course, hands its readers what it wants, and most of that is sensational. It was sensational news about police brutality in Oakland and Washington that turned the liberal activists against Dow in the fall, and it is the overplayed copy about SDS' demanding no tuition that disenchants...
...SDS has a fairly small nucleus of members who regularly go to meetings and work on committees. One of their leaders estimated this group numbered from 50 to 60. That may be a high estimate. As with every activity at Harvard, the active members form something of a club. They room together, hold bull sessions together, and eat in Lehman Hall together--not exclusively, but usually. If SDS people don't mix much with the liberal activists and get their message out that way, it is because the two are motivated by almost completely different goals. The SDS activists have...