Thursday, July 18, 1968
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Wilson Clark. Jr.
UNC-SBS
.Declines
(This is Part 2 of Wilson Clark's article on the SDS. In Part 1 last
week, he discussed its activities with the Speaker-Ban rules, its own
newspaper, and its support for an organized strike.)
George Vlasits, a former UNC ,
This ran against the
individualistic grain of about
half the chapter, according to
Can, and effectively split the
group into somewhat dissident
elements.
The textile strike eventually
failed, and with its failure, so
went SDS, at least in the sense
of a tightly - knit, readily -mbbilized
group.
SDS, the progenitor of other
movements at UNC, then began
to move in this direction itself.
Bv summer, the radicals that
sociology graduate student and
UNC - SDS member was active
in SSOC, and he gave impetus to
many local radicals to involve
themselves in the project work.
The coalition strategy, first
proposed by Gary Waller the
"Speaker-Ban" controversy, now
hit home, as the SDS chapter
itself was being de-emphasized in
the overall aims of other
groups . . . first "Vietnam
summer," then SSOC. Other
national radical croups were
creation of radicals. You might
say that radicals are our most
important product. In the last
three years, SDS has created
between 200-300 radicals."
Looking back' on the days
when SDS meant only a vague
collection, of initials to most
people in Chapel Hill, one
cannot disagree with Jerry Carr.
But the question, remains, where
will the radicals go from here?
3 , , W t,m, . s beginning to penetrate the
" "V .t, : ChSpe. Hill r.d.cJ tm. such .
Summer," a nationally
organized anti - war
mobilization. SDS, as an
organization, had ceased to
function, but its members
worked intensively in the
summer project By August,
project leaders had engineered a
protest march (against the
Vietnam war) and rally that over
150 people participated in.
By fall, SDS was again on its
feet, but the "Sturm and Drang"
of the former days was gone.
The primary organizational
efforts made by Carr, the
1967-68 chairman, were directed
at getting a large local
"The Resistance (the largest
national anti-draft group)
represented by draft-opposer
Eaton.
The last major radical action
at UNC this year was the April
26 Protest Moratorium (on the
war and the draft), which was
organized, not by SDS, but the
eventual creation of SDS itself
a loose coalition of radical
students.
Gary Waller, the co-founder
of UNC-SDS, agrees with this
year's chairman, Jerry Carr:
"The problem with SDS, or any
similar radical group, is that it's
difficult to Dass on effective
i.
ai getting b iikc : , , r .
contingent to participate in the leadership from generation to
October march on the Pentagon.
Approximately 80 area radicals
marched, and one UNC student,
Robert "Corky" Eaton, turned
his draft card in to federal
officials.
In activity on the local level
continued until March, when
Chairman Can announced, on
March; 16, that SDS would
picket the Dow recruiter on
campus. The "picket line"
turned into a sizable protest, and
15 people were arrested, most of
them from UNC -SDS.
By this time, SDS was still
not as strong as it had been in
the 1966-67 academic year, and
many of the members were
involved in community - project
work with the Southern Student
Organizing Committee (SSOC)
in Durham.
generation.."
Both WAUer and Carr do not
necessarily regret however, the
demise of UNC-SDS. As Carr
sees the three-year life-span of
the group, it accomplished its
major goal: "In SDS, we have
been working toward'-'the
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