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...Harvard Draft Project now has an office in Mem Hall and a University extension telephone. What it lacks is a coherent sense of direction. Its main organizing arm--the Harvard Draft Union--has been torn by factional struggles among SDS, hard-core resistance advocates, and "apoliticals...
What the Draft Project seems to fear most is that the name "SDS" will turn everyone off. Right now the Union is an "autonomous committee of SDS," with no direct SDS control. Those were the assurances everyone received at a meet- ing in the Dunster Senior Common Room last night...
Jonathan Harris '68, chairman of SDS's committee on the University and the War, said yesterday, "My feeling is that we should aim at a militant demonstration, but there is no point at all in clouding the issue with obstruction." Several other SDS people contacted yesterday agreed...
Students can most effectively fight the draft by forming a draft union, Dyen says. Harvard SDS hopes to establish an effective draft union and canvass the entire senior class within the first four weeks of this semester. The union would organize students to resist the draft and provide support for their confrontations with authority, by staging demonstrations at induction centers and possibly boycotts of classes. The Harvard draft union would also be an anti-war organization, distributing films, planning demonstrations...
Magraw has argued that students ought to be represented on Faculty Committees like the Committee on Houses and the CEP. He also feels that the HUC should absorb some of the activities of "a plethora of organizations [the CRIMSON, PBH, SDS] all fulfilling functions which are in the domain of student government." Glimp calls the first of these suggestions "unrealistic," and the second is impossible to legislate formally...