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...group on the Harvard campus--Students for a Democratic Society--joined the long line of University organizations soliciting support at registration last week. Yet, despite SDS's newness, many of its members were old hands at manning registration tables, veterans of Harvard's peace group Tocsin...
...rise of SDS in the same year that Tocsin is quietly being laid to rest is no coincidence, for the new organization marks a fundamental change in the philosophy of Harvard's Left...
...quest," reads an SDS statement, "is for a political and economic order in which peace and plenty are used for the widest social benefit, a participatory democracy in which people are given the means to control their lives...
...David M. Kotz '65, vice chairman of Tocsin and acting president of SDS, put it, "We found that peace can't be won by studying the arms race, and all the student activists were drawn away into civil rights. While the arms race and disarmament negotiations are important, unfortunately they aren't very interesting...
Thus, in a meeting next week, Tocsin's executive committee will propose to its members that when SDS receives University recognition at the end of October, the peace group dissolve, bequeathing to the new organization its mimeograph machine, its bankroll, and H. Stuart Hughes, its faculty advisor...