STUDENT DECISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100880001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 12, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

dents will decide who`they=dd'n
want on campus and what w.
they will not support; SDS shout
not decide this for them, no mor
than SDS feels the administratio
should. .
Mr, Cole says that 'SDS is u
able to be objective and that the
will make judgments. He con
s inues that SDS (as an arm o
d?) will make the studen
'understand their needs; -under
land themselves as desiring sub
ective people Is Mr. Col
rying . to shame the students
s a student, I do not-want th
dministration or SDS to' mak
Y needs understood to' me;
nt to make my needs u nder?
food to the administration or c
DS. If SDS would be objectiv 3,
nd not make moral judgments s
o what my needs are, but wou. d
ork to assure that my nee s
uld be understood and complied
ith, by the administration, I, as
now subjective students would be
cry happy to help. In this cam
sign. But, I do not want Mr. Cole
"overthrow" Pres, Kirk, and ~
en tell me that I do not want
ennett Cerf on campus, when In-
ed I do, (or thought I did) not
ore than I want Pres. Kirk to;
MR me this now. If SIDS wants
hieval of student power, it can.
t assert that . It will teach the
udents understanding of their
eds,.since that means SDS pow-
,' not'student power.
At the end of his letter, Mr. C
no longer saying that he .11
ake students understand th Iri
s, but he has ' assumed that1
ese SDS defined needs have be
"te
e' I
phatdcally-'the students will
Iable to say with controlled ene
to Pres. Kirk that he does not t
resent them .. ." Where did
voting take placg? I didn't get
one vote on what I want to sa)
Pres. Kirk, yet I em included
that statement, Mr. Cole should
stating that students will be a
to say something to Pres. Ki
which will be 'listened to and cc
plied with, whether it be that V
feel he does represent them or ti
he does not-if student power
Indeed the goal.
Student power means that .4
students make the decisions-r
the administration and not SE
SDS cannot assert these studs
opinions now, for they do not kn
them, anymore than they, ass
SDS. Should br`:r6ri~iirg Instead
make the student's opinions ?a
needs known, listened to, and cc
plied with by the adrhinistratior
be It Pres. Kirk's or Mr. Cole's.
SDS's goal Is for the decisions
the University to be depende
upon the students, as I. feel it ba
ically is and should be, SIDS mi
not make value judgments fbt' t
students 'who are to ultimate
make their own value judgments
for the motto Is to "Let the Peop
Decide" not SDS. SDS, in order
achieve the.. student power got
around which I hope and feel' mar
tudents will, rallvp
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Student Decision
T;o the Editor:
a Ipotcntial power on the Columbi
c~npus demands the attention
,all students on the Columbia ca
pus as well as the Barnard-ca
,Pus. The organization is less tha
a month old, but has already mad
The organization is now In th
process of defining its goals.
Because I recognize some o
verbalized and -printed, as good
and would like to see rcalizatio
of these goals, I' would like t
make the following constructiv
"ritieism of what I read in Lewi
Cole's Letter to the Editor of De
Member 2, 1966, which I feel' migh
hinder the success of SDS.?
Because, Cole' signs unde
his name - S teering Com
mince"-I assume that the view
p>I'esented in his letter represent
ose of the organization.. called
formed both. to keep the. CIA off
;.car'-.^-"=-+d to try to make .the
uses to 'which the University was
put, dependent on the active sup-
port of the students." The , two
aims cannot be as easily, tied to-
gether as the "and" ties them. If
SDS wants to make the uses to.
which the University Is put de-
pendent upon-the support of the
'students, how can they' also say
that they do not want the CIA on
campus, as if this would be the de-
olsion the students would make,
when in -fact, they have taken no
votes on this; they have not ques-
tioned the -thousands of students
who the -University Is to be de-
pendent upon? If SDS wants the
students to decide, how does SDS
know that the students do not
want the- CIA' on campus? With
that statement, SDS could lose po-
tential support of people who back
having the students decide Uni-
versity policy, but who also might
feel the CIA should be allowed on
campus. Which is the goal of SDS?
It cannot be both, for 'they are
mutually exclusive statements at
this point. $ feel the goal, and the
only goal, at this point, of SIDS
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December 12, 1966
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cisions about the uses to whi
the University is put,' depcndr
upon the students. If this g
is complicated with other go
such as, keeping the CIA .off ca
Pus,., active opposition by t
Nam, keeping Bennett Cerf
campus, 'or active opposition
the. -University to, the war'
poverty,: potential backers will'
lost. If . the single'' goal' ' ,of 'd
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