Small Archive Documenting Student Protests Against Harvard University, 1969-1971

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An interesting collection of eight publications issued by student activist organizations at Harvard University between 1969 and 1971, denouncing the university as aristocratic and imperialist and condemning its actions in relation to free speech, labor, housing, U.S. foreign policy, and other issues. Includes: 1) How Harvard Rules, Being a Total Critique of Harvard University. Cambridge: A.R.G. and The Old Mole, [1969]. 8.25" x 10.75", 88 pp, stapled wrappers. Takes the position that "far from being cut off from the 'real world outside,' American universities are absolutely central components of the social system of technological warfare-welfare capitalism. The functions, goals, structure, and organization of the universities are directly and indirectly determined by the needs and perspectives of that social system." Includes articles on Harvard's relation to corporate power. Harvard's "foreign policy establishment," Harvard and the War Machine (including a demand for abolishment of ROTC), and how Harvard rules through training national elites. Concludes that "the decisions and the scholarly and practical work" set in motion by Harvard's top-down leadership "serve the immediate and long-range interests of America's ruling class system and its empire." Accompanied, as issued, by a 17" x 22.5" chart depicting interconnections between Harvard and national and international corporations, the U.S. and foreign governments, and the media. 2) The Cambridge Project. Social Science for Social Control. Cambridge, 1969. 9.75 x 7", 49 pp, stapled wrappers. Edited by Students for a Democratic Society [SDS] members, with contributions from others. Critiques a joint Harvard/MIT project using computers for social and behavioral science research, arguing that "the social sciences are being used to strengthen the system of imperialism and to perpetuate the severe exploitation of working and poor people on which the privileges of the ruling class depend." 3 copies located in OCLC. 3) SDS Report on Painter's Helpers. [Cambridge: Students for a Democratic Society, 1969]. 17.5" x 11", 4 pp, bifolium. In 1967, Harvard established a program to provide jobs and training to "disadvantaged" individuals who were not skilled tradesmen but could be hired as "painters' helpers" at a lower wage. The SDS claims here that the people hired were actually skilled, that they were never given any training, and that this was a racist program that enabled Harvard to pay poor Black workers less than they deserved. Not found in OCLC. 4) Harvard, Urban Imperialist. [Cambridge]: Anti-Expansion Anti-ROTC Strike Steering Committee [of the SDS], 1969. 8.5" x 5.5", 20 pp. + errata slip, stapled wrappers. Argues that Harvard's physical expansion is causing a "class substitution" in Cambridge, which is "ceasing to be a largely working-class manufacturing city and is rapidly become a foremost center for training highly specialized technicians for carrying out government and private research." Three SDS demands are presented: "That Harvard roll back the rents in the apartments it owns to the January 1, 1968 level;" that "Black and white workers' homes in Roxbury not be torn down to make room for the Affiliate Hospitals Center;" and that "the University Road Apartments not be torn down to make room for the Kennedy Memorial Library." 5) Harvard Strike. Old Mole Special Issue, April 22-May 9 [1969]. 17" x 11.5", 20 pp, printed in red and black on newsprint. Some toning and short tears. The Old Mole was a radical underground newspaper run by Harvard students from 1968 to 1970. This important issue covers SDS-led actions on campus that began on April 8, 1969, when a series of demands were pinned to the door of University President Nathan Pusey's home. Among other things, the students called for the abolishment of ROTC at Harvard, the cessation of evictions from Harvard-owned apartments to make way for new facilities, and the formation of a Black Studies department. Also included in th. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23408

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