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...Left at Harvard, best typified by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), represents one fact of a new generation of students which began to arrive at the College after 1960. For them, the election of president Kennedy, with his image youth and energy, served as a catalyst. Simultaneously, the damper which the McCarthy investigations had placed on radical politics in the university began to lift, and soon the New Left generation made its presence known at Harvard...
...decision-making process underlies every program of the New Left, especially their protest against the Selective Service System. As Barry McGuire phrased it in his protest song, "The Eve of Destruction," "You're old enough to kill, but not for voting." Paul Booth, the national secretary of SDS, complained to a Harvard audience last October that "the decision to take up 45,000 people a month is not a decision that any of the draft-age people participated...
...should hold the referendum? The Administration, afraid perhaps of being implicitly bound by the outcome, has refused to sponsor the poll, though it does not object to the vote's taking place. The political organizations, such as SDS, are understandably reluctant to organize the referendum, fearing students will construe the whole thing as a propaganda stunt. This leaves the Harvard Undergraduate Council, which is politically neutral, independent of official Harvard, and experienced in matters of this sort. The HUC should move immediately to execute the mandate of this week's petition...
...upon closer examination, was the SDS test an exam, an anti-exam, or a mock exam? Their one-sided approach to every question eliminates any possibility of calling it an objective test, and identifies it as an honest statement of SDS's position. But since the SDS exam and the draft exam were often taken in rapid succession (the counter-exam during the tedious hour of waiting before the draft test) the link between the two became more obvious. The mock-exam seemed to be saying, "Concentrate on some of the pertinent questions about the war that we pose instead...
...their documentation of the counter exam answers, SDS fell into a kind of double standard that many protest organizations fall into in finding evidence for their "facts." The duplicity involved is most obvious when you hear members of SDS denounce the New York Times for misrepresenting the situation on one day, and then citing it as a source in the counter exam on the following day. The other argument which can be held against the sources chosen to support the protest position comes from the non-believer who asks why he should listen to SDS's statistical data any more...