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SDS New Left Notes Page 5

                          p. 5
ONVENTION - 1972

Undoubtedly, there are mistakes in the listings of workshops; that is - people might not be giving one that they're signed up for. If so, we're sorry - please overlook them.
*Firings of Radical Professors & How to fight them -- Harvard-Radcliffe, Los Angeles SDS, Northeastern UAG
*Discrimination in Housing -- BU SDS
*Shockley, Jensen and Eysenck - just what are they saying? Bay Area SDS
*Throw out military recruiters - Unite with Vets -- Lehman College SDS, UMass SSDS, and Vets
*The fight against Eysenck in England -- Students and faculty from England
*How to fight repression and murder of Iranian student -- Maryland SDS
*The Unheavenly City and the fight against FAP (Family Assistance Plan)
*How to fight forced sterilization laws
*Racism in Africa & the role of the university
*Movement Against IQ
*Racism and the Army--New Hampshire SDS
*The fight against racist ideology and Worker-Student Alliance -- Trade Tech SDS, LA Temple U SDS, Philly
*Campus Worker-Student Alliance --Temple SDS & campus workers
*Republican Convention in San Diego -- Bay Area SDS
*Strategy ror 1972 Elections -- Chicago SDS
*Fight Racist Admissions Exams -- St. Louis
*Canadian Student Movement -- Canadian students 
*Racism and Micronesia -- San Francisco Micronesian student
*Henry Clay Lindgren & his books -- Utah and San Francisco State SDS
*Students in alliance with farmworkers -- Longbranch City College and the Grape Boycott Committee
*Racism vs. Freedom of Speech -- St. Louis
*Art work for SDS=fundraising -- Indiana
*Postermaking -- U Conn SDS
*Political History of Racism in the U.S. -- Malcolm X Institute
*Racist speakers off-campus: Iowa, BU SDS
*New Left Notes & Radical Newspapers
*Economic basis of Racism
*Fighting for Jobs!
*Radical skits and how to use them -- San Francisco SDS and Science for the People
*Classroom organizing & How to do it -- Bay Area SDS and Canadian students

SCHEDULE
SATURDAY                  SUNDAY
PANEL                        PLENARY: officer
RESOLUTION          elections and organ
PLENARY                izational proposals

WORKSHOPS
UAG FORUM (and
other special events)
RESOLUTION
PLENARY (cont.)

BIG PARTY
{right half of photo of people in street)

THROW THE RACISTS OFF CAMPUS!
and their textbooks to

   What follows are sections of a resolution on racism to be presented in full at the Convention.

THROW THE RACISTS OFF THE CAMPUS & THEIR TEXTBOOKS AFTER THEM!

   Of course the schools were always racist. But now "respectable racist experts" are creeping out of the woodwork - from Jensen at Berkeley to Bronfenbrenner at Cornell. Backed up completely by the national press and school administrators, they're putting out all kinds of "New and very, very scientific sounding" racist filth. Their "theories" get spread through slick racist texts taught in all the schools and articles in the major (not to mention minor) magazines. The idea is by spreading these theories, theywan idea is by spreading these theories, they want to make all the old racist lies appear as "scientific truth". We've got to fight this racism in the schools, in the cities and NATIONWIDE because it justifies every brutal act of oppression committed by the government.
   What follow are the ways we feel that this can be done. But underlying all of it is the need to nationally unite all students, working people and professionals of all races to end this oppression. 

action

1. On campus -- Students should organize to throw all racist professors and administrators off the campuses. Boycott racists: Work to fire Herrnstein, Jensen, Shockley, Banfield - the whole racist lot. STOP the use of racist books, the continuation of racist courses, seminars. Stop racist speakers who visit the campus. Examples in this isue of NLN are: Herrnstein at IOWA and Harvard; Shockley, Lindgren's book at Salt Lake City, Bromfenbrenner at MIT.
2. The harassment of minority students by administrators and cops is growing daily. Nationwide cuts are being made on scholarships for minority students. We think this represents a plan to force minority students out of the schools. Altogether! This is justified by racist fabrications similar to Jensen and Banfield. What follow refer to campaigns which have been launched against harrassment of minority students in the past month.
  a. cutbacks in scholarships: at Tufts, black students had a sit-in against scholarship cuts, and at Brandeis, black and Latin students stopped traffic and took over the faculty dining room against the same thing there. 
  b. Flunk-outs--Black and latin students are constantly being flunked or given lousy grades for purely racist reasons; Northeastern students had a series of confrontations with professors and teaching assistants to stop this.
  c. Frame-ups and phony arrests: In a community college in Maryland an Iranian student was arrested for parking violation and thrown in jail...this couuld have led to his deportation and possible death, since he was a member of the Iranian Student Organization (an offense punishable by death in Iran). Immediately SDS went to the cafeteria and called to people to prevent this...students immediately demanded his release and won!
  d. Racism in the dorms: On every campus there are countless examples of harrassment of students by dorm residents, cops and often other students. Students in SDS and others should issue an ultimatum on this (maybe in the form of a petition stating that the next time such an incident occurs, the undersigned will meet together to plan an action to stop it). See the story on racism in the dorms at Northeastern.
3. Fight racism towards workers on campus: 
  a. pay differentials between black and white workers.
  b. lay-offs
  c. harrassment
  d. demand hiring of more minority workers (at restaurantes close to campus - one in Pittsburgh and one in Cambridge...waitresses are on strike demanding, among other things, hiring of minority workers. We should support this wholeheartedly.) ***Also, see stories on Temple Univ. and L.A. cafeteria workers.
4. People should have more opportunity to study the history and present situation of minority groups in the colleges. An example of what people are doing about this can be found in the article on the Black Student Organization at Triton Jr. College. 
5. Stop racist UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND INVESTMENTS: They increase oppression. At Harvard a group of black students in the Pan African Liberation Committee have been demanding that Harvard sell its $21 million dollars of Gulf Oil Stock, because of the oppression in Mozambique, Angola and South Africa (see story this issue).
6. OFF CAMPUS: Unite with welfare mothers and others to fight welfare cuts and especially forced sterilization laws being introduced around the country. Mid-west SDS is going to fight against the forced sterilization bill being passed by the Indiana State legislature.

   SUPPORT PRISON REBELLIONS & BLACK REBELLIONS IN THE GHETTO.
   There are many other ideas for off campus work to fight racism.

   By building SDS in this way, by organizing countless local activities against campus racism, by one chapter supporting struggles of another; by big regional campaigns against racism being built -- we can develop a national movement against racism. When we build SDS this way, it will become more and more possible for us to respond quickly, massively and sharply to large scale racist attacks whether they be the suppression of a ghetto rebellion in Detroit, the crushing of prison uprising in Attica, or the passing of a vicious law like the "Forced Sterilization Bill in Indiana". LET'S START NOW!!!
            Liz Chen and Leslie Davidson

WHO PAYS YOU, MR. ROTBERG--PAPA DOC'S SON?
   Haiti--The Politics o Squalor by Robert Rotberg of Massachusetts Institute of Technology says: "From the psychological point of view, there is a further element in the mental configuration of non-elite Haitians that, it can be tentatively argued, makes dictatorship and brutality possible." (p.19). From this, Rotberg concludes: "Haitians therefore can be said to need and expect strong dictatorships; accordingly, democratic politics revives the kinds of tensions which Haitians would prefer to avoid and the decisions they find difficult to make." (p.24)
   Bullshit, Mr. Rotberg--the "mental configuration" of the "non-elite Haitians" you talk about has been planning and executing people's rebellions for years against the brutal U.S. backed dictatorship in Haiti. Here's how students at MIT are answering your book:
   35 people confronted Rotberg as he came from his class Feb 28 and for two hours he evaded questions, only to say such things as, "We must understand that the Haitian predilection for dictatorship is psychologically based." About Haitian Rebellion he said: "Those people are simply fighting for spoils among themselves. Bullshit again Mr. Rotberg--"these" people and "those" people are "simply" fighting to get you and your "benevolent" dictatorships off of this this planet forever.

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p. 5 ONVENTION - 1972 Undoubtedly, there are mistakes in the listings of workshops; that is - people might not be giving one that they're signed up for. If so, we're sorry - please overlook them. *Firings of Radical Professors & How to fight them -- Harvard-Radcliffe, Los Angeles SDS, Northeastern UAG *Discrimination in Housing -- BU SDS *Shockley, Jensen and Eysenck - just what are they saying? Bay Area SDS *Throw out military recruiters - Unite with Vets -- Lehman College SDS, UMass SSDS, and Vets *The fight against Eysenck in England -- Students and faculty from England *How to fight repression and murder of Iranian student -- Maryland SDS *The Unheavenly City and the fight against FAP (Family Assistance Plan) *How to fight forced sterilization laws *Racism in Africa & the role of the university *Movement Against IQ *Racism and the Army--New Hampshire SDS *The fight against racist ideology and Worker-Student Alliance -- Trade Tech SDS, LA Temple U SDS, Philly *Campus Worker-Student Alliance --Temple SDS & campus workers *Republican Convention in San Diego -- Bay Area SDS *Strategy ror 1972 Elections -- Chicago SDS *Fight Racist Admissions Exams -- St. Louis *Canadian Student Movement -- Canadian students *Racism and Micronesia -- San Francisco Micronesian student *Henry Clay Lindgren & his books -- Utah and San Francisco State SDS *Students in alliance with farmworkers -- Longbranch City College and the Grape Boycott Committee *Racism vs. Freedom of Speech -- St. Louis *Art work for SDS=fundraising -- Indiana *Postermaking -- U Conn SDS *Political History of Racism in the U.S. -- Malcolm X Institute *Racist speakers off-campus: Iowa, BU SDS *New Left Notes & Radical Newspapers *Economic basis of Racism *Fighting for Jobs! *Radical skits and how to use them -- San Francisco SDS and Science for the People *Classroom organizing & How to do it -- Bay Area SDS and Canadian students SCHEDULE SATURDAY SUNDAY PANEL PLENARY: officer RESOLUTION elections and organ PLENARY izational proposals WORKSHOPS UAG FORUM (and other special events) RESOLUTION PLENARY (cont.) BIG PARTY {right half of photo of people in street) THROW THE RACISTS OFF CAMPUS! and their textbooks to What follows are sections of a resolution on racism to be presented in full at the Convention. THROW THE RACISTS OFF THE CAMPUS & THEIR TEXTBOOKS AFTER THEM! Of course the schools were always racist. But now "respectable racist experts" are creeping out of the woodwork - from Jensen at Berkeley to Bronfenbrenner at Cornell. Backed up completely by the national press and school administrators, they're putting out all kinds of "New and very, very scientific sounding" racist filth. Their "theories" get spread through slick racist texts taught in all the schools and articles in the major (not to mention minor) magazines. The idea is by spreading these theories, theywan idea is by spreading these theories, they want to make all the old racist lies appear as "scientific truth". We've got to fight this racism in the schools, in the cities and NATIONWIDE because it justifies every brutal act of oppression committed by the government. What follow are the ways we feel that this can be done. But underlying all of it is the need to nationally unite all students, working people and professionals of all races to end this oppression. action 1. On campus -- Students should organize to throw all racist professors and administrators off the campuses. Boycott racists: Work to fire Herrnstein, Jensen, Shockley, Banfield - the whole racist lot. STOP the use of racist books, the continuation of racist courses, seminars. Stop racist speakers who visit the campus. Examples in this isue of NLN are: Herrnstein at IOWA and Harvard; Shockley, Lindgren's book at Salt Lake City, Bromfenbrenner at MIT. 2. The harassment of minority students by administrators and cops is growing daily. Nationwide cuts are being made on scholarships for minority students. We think this represents a plan to force minority students out of the schools. Altogether! This is justified by racist fabrications similar to Jensen and Banfield. What follow refer to campaigns which have been launched against harrassment of minority students in the past month. a. cutbacks in scholarships: at Tufts, black students had a sit-in against scholarship cuts, and at Brandeis, black and Latin students stopped traffic and took over the faculty dining room against the same thing there. b. Flunk-outs--Black and latin students are constantly being flunked or given lousy grades for purely racist reasons; Northeastern students had a series of confrontations with professors and teaching assistants to stop this. c. Frame-ups and phony arrests: In a community college in Maryland an Iranian student was arrested for parking violation and thrown in jail...this couuld have led to his deportation and possible death, since he was a member of the Iranian Student Organization (an offense punishable by death in Iran). Immediately SDS went to the cafeteria and called to people to prevent this...students immediately demanded his release and won! d. Racism in the dorms: On every campus there are countless examples of harrassment of students by dorm residents, cops and often other students. Students in SDS and others should issue an ultimatum on this (maybe in the form of a petition stating that the next time such an incident occurs, the undersigned will meet together to plan an action to stop it). See the story on racism in the dorms at Northeastern. 3. Fight racism towards workers on campus: a. pay differentials between black and white workers. b. lay-offs c. harrassment d. demand hiring of more minority workers (at restaurantes close to campus - one in Pittsburgh and one in Cambridge...waitresses are on strike demanding, among other things, hiring of minority workers. We should support this wholeheartedly.) ***Also, see stories on Temple Univ. and L.A. cafeteria workers. 4. People should have more opportunity to study the history and present situation of minority groups in the colleges. An example of what people are doing about this can be found in the article on the Black Student Organization at Triton Jr. College. 5. Stop racist UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND INVESTMENTS: They increase oppression. At Harvard a group of black students in the Pan African Liberation Committee have been demanding that Harvard sell its $21 million dollars of Gulf Oil Stock, because of the oppression in Mozambique, Angola and South Africa (see story this issue). 6. OFF CAMPUS: Unite with welfare mothers and others to fight welfare cuts and especially forced sterilization laws being introduced around the country. Mid-west SDS is going to fight against the forced sterilization bill being passed by the Indiana State legislature. SUPPORT PRISON REBELLIONS & BLACK REBELLIONS IN THE GHETTO. There are many other ideas for off campus work to fight racism. By building SDS in this way, by organizing countless local activities against campus racism, by one chapter supporting struggles of another; by big regional campaigns against racism being built -- we can develop a national movement against racism. When we build SDS this way, it will become more and more possible for us to respond quickly, massively and sharply to large scale racist attacks whether they be the suppression of a ghetto rebellion in Detroit, the crushing of prison uprising in Attica, or the passing of a vicious law like the "Forced Sterilization Bill in Indiana". LET'S START NOW!!! Liz Chen and Leslie Davidson WHO PAYS YOU, MR. ROTBERG--PAPA DOC'S SON? Haiti--The Politics o Squalor by Robert Rotberg of Massachusetts Institute of Technology says: "From the psychological point of view, there is a further element in the mental configuration of non-elite Haitians that, it can be tentatively argued, makes dictatorship and brutality possible." (p.19). From this, Rotberg concludes: "Haitians therefore can be said to need and expect strong dictatorships; accordingly, democratic politics revives the kinds of tensions which Haitians would prefer to avoid and the decisions they find difficult to make." (p.24) Bullshit, Mr. Rotberg--the "mental configuration" of the "non-elite Haitians" you talk about has been planning and executing people's rebellions for years against the brutal U.S. backed dictatorship in Haiti. Here's how students at MIT are answering your book: 35 people confronted Rotberg as he came from his class Feb 28 and for two hours he evaded questions, only to say such things as, "We must understand that the Haitian predilection for dictatorship is psychologically based." About Haitian Rebellion he said: "Those people are simply fighting for spoils among themselves. Bullshit again Mr. Rotberg--"these" people and "those" people are "simply" fighting to get you and your "benevolent" dictatorships off of this this planet forever.