CSI CAMPUS STUDIES INSTITUTEP.O. BOX 9355SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92109

TED LOEFFLERPRESIDENT

WE SUGGEST YOU KEEP THIS MANUAL

AND REFER TO IT FROM TIME TO TIME

AS YOU OBSERVE THE ''NEW LEFT" IN\

ACTION ON YOUR CAMPUS.

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"The ability to manipulate people through violence andmass media has never been greater, and the potential forliberation for us as radicals has never been more excitingthan now.~~ 1

- Dave GilbertSDS

"We are not here to do good. We are here to seize power.Don't ask us what we'll do with it when we get it. The dem-ocratic process is a great thing, but you don't come to thedemocratic process democratically.~~ 2

- Nahaz RogersCommittee tor IndependentPolitical Action

" Do you know why the demonstrations and protest move-ments succeeded? Because we didn't play the rules ofthe game. Our movement wasn't organized democratically.We kicked the Dow people off the campus who had everyright to be there. It was our unrepressed intolerance andthorough anti permissiveness that brought ou r actionssuccess.e ~ 3

- Buffalo, N. Y. SDS'er

., University reform can only be a means to revolution,never a revolutionary end in itself. Once you secure thecampus you have just begun.~~ 4

- Lee Felsensteln, tormer'military editor,'Berkeley Barb

1. Speech at SDS National Convention in East Lansing, Mich., 1968.2. Statement at Chicago organizing conference of CIPA, Jan. 15, 1966.3. New York Times Magazine, May 5, 1968.4. Robert Betts, San Diego Union, March 5, 1969.

Mold Students into Revolutionariesin 8 Simple Steps

1. Organize people for political action. Rap about "re-forms," direct action with "suggestions."

2. Find out what is bugging people - you can use it toget them "involved."Start with little issues to attract lots of supporters .

•• Dorms are a prime area to work inbecause the people in them are in fre-quent contact, will be together for anumber of months ... We start on thetop floor of the dorm with a list of peo-ple we already know. We cali meetingsand talk to students about draft resist-ance, the nature of the university, andhow you change these things. Then wehelp them cali meetings of people onother floors, and we exchange ideasand information on what they aredoing.~~ 5

•• We started with the rule: 'No par-ties on Friday night.' We demanded webe allowed to give a party on Fridaynight. Then we went to the rules onhaving visitors in your room, then tothe price of rooms .... You have to givethe issue a nitty-gritty context, andthe price of rooms, visiting rules,parties are all things that affect every-body in the dorm no matter what theirpolitics."

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- John Kauffman, SDSorganizer, U. of Wis.

- John Kauffman, SDSorganizer, U. of Wis.

5. Look, Vol. 32, No. 20 (Oct. 1, 1968), p. 26.6. Ibid.

3. If you can't find an issue to use on people, phony oneup.

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••• Let me tell you. We manufacturedthe issues. The Institute for DefenseAnalysis is nothing at Columbia. Justthree professors. And the gym issue isbull. It doesn't mean anything to any-body. I had never been to the gym sitebefore the demonstrations began. Ididn't even know how to get there .•• 7

- Mark Rudd, former SDSleader, Columbia University;now SDS-RYM National Secretary

7. The Boston Globe. Oct. 1. 1968.

4. Propagandize. Don't overestimate the intelligence ofyour fellow students.

"Leaflets clearly exert a major influ-ence on the way students perceivereal ity. Probably seventy-five percentof all students derive sixty percent oftheir political awareness from leaflets.

The leaflet is of the underground,which is to say, of the Left. A smudgymimeographed sheet is strongly asso-ciated with powerlessness and a lackof funds, which is good, because broadsegments of American society canidentify with it. •• 8

- James Simon KunenCOlumbia Univ. radical

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8. Esquire. (September. 1969), o. 102.

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5. Student governments can be used. Work your way In- and take over.

"Can anything positive be gainedthrough student government? Apartfrom publicity, one thing it can be usedfor is money. Many student-activitiesfunds are open for the kinds of thingswe would like to see on campus: cer-tain speakers, films, sponsoring con-ferences. Money, without strings, isalways a help .•• -

- Carl Davidson, SDS

•• If ou r people do happen to getelected as radicals ... then the seatswon should be used as a focal pointand sounding board for demonstratingthe impotence of student governmentfrom within. A seat should be seen asa soap-box, where our representativecan stand, gaining a kind of visibilityand speaking to the student body as awhole, over the heads of the other stu-dent politicians .•• 10

- Carl Davidson, SDS

9. "Campaigning on the campus," Student Power, ed. Alexander Cockburn &. RobinBlackburn (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969).

10. Ibid.

6. Put people up against the wall. Exploit their emotionsto make them feel so guilty they have to work for you.

•• You're either with the movement oragainst it, because if you're not willingto take the measures that are neces-sary to correct the problem - and theyhave to be radical measures today-then you automatically become part ofthe problem. It's the same thing withthe so-called Negro moderates; they'reeither chumps who don't know what'sgoing on or they're conscious traitorsto their race. As for moderate whites,they're as much responsible for theracial problem as George Wallace .•• 11

- Harry Edwards,Afro-American Soc.,Cornel/ University

11. "The Playboy Panel: Student Revolt," Playboy, Sept., 1969, p, 91.

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7. Once you've manipulated students into conflict, keepthem there. If your "demands" are met, make more.Demand the impossible.

"We use the technique of demands,always pushing and pushing onthrough demands, to an end wherethey have to give in or fight against therevolution.~~ 12

- Dave Gilbert, SDS-REP

"Militants at Howard Universitystaged a sit-in when the faculty re-jected some of their demands, one ofwhich was that the law faculty 'insistthat the president and treasurer of theuniversity commit funds, regardless ofavailability, for all projects demandedby the law students'.~~ 13

- Recent News Item

12. USA. Feb .• 1967.13. L.A. Times, Feb. 19, 1969.