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IC0 00 182 02 . -. 6 has scheduled a "National Convcntion Against Racism" a t Harvard Universityon the above dates. s i t y has granted SDS permission to use the college facilities for the convention; however, the permit does not cover the full amount of time. The group asked to begin the convention Thursday March 30, but Dean Epps informed them he could not grant them the.time Thursday o r F r i - d a y because classes wduld be in sesslon. The Har%ard C r i m s o n under- graduate newspaper quoted a n SDS spokesman as saying the group would Dean Archie Epps annorinred the Univer- .- - * s t a r t o n Thursday anyway. .. - - M e m b e r s of SDS are planning to hold workshops to condemn the racism-of certain u n b e r s i t y profpssors who have suggested that I. 0. differenc'es between races m a y be a r e s u l t of hereditary factors a s w e l l , as environmental. The choice of H a d r d University as the convention site i s no coincidence. Professor Richard, Herrnstein a m e m b e r of the psychology faculty a t Harvard became a marked man to the radicals when he published his views on racial differences in the September 1971 issue of Atlantic Monthly Magazine. tagged as r a c i s t are Arthur Jensen of the University of Salifornia and William Shockley of Stanford Univgrl$.ity. decade SDS w a s considered to be the m o s t powerful revolutionary group in the country. However, m e m b e r s attending the 1969 National Con- vention in Chicago became disallusianed by thc failure to achieve their objectives and consequently. resulted in splintering the otganization into factions. Since then the remains of SDS have been cotitrollcd by the P r o g r e s s i v e Labor Party. SDS chieftains new expect to ride the r a c i s m isgue back to power in the revolutionary movement. SDS has announced that the convention will be open but reportedly offi- cial representatives of the Young Socialist Alliance and other Trotskyite organizations will be banned. The Communist P a r t y USA a l s o expects to gain from a revival of SDS because they consider, the group a m a j o r recruiting t e r r i t o r y for party ranks. that represcntgtives f r o m Canada, Puerto R ico. Finland, Japan, G e r - many and M5xico are expected to attend the convention. group o f Latin American students f r o m Brandeis university called Other noted professors who have been During much of the past The PLP/ The SDS leadership has announced A non-SDS GRITA is also expected to attend. ,,J. , j > : * d ' f c , ;* -L . .. . c , -< ' 8 A: ' - ' / ' , e f , ,. 7*#8 I' -f/y *l April--20 May, Nationwide '' , /I/ . ? I The Pcoplcs Coalition for Peace and JusIir-c which is tinclcr . . the influcncr: of the Communist P a r t y USA, rrporlcdly will not actively sopport dcnionsfrations sppnsorcd by thc Naliona! Pcacc Action Coali- tion on April 22. The PCPJ has recently announced a calendar of . events for March and April: