Protesters Demonstrate Against Huntington's Return to Harvard

Fifteen demonstrators, many of them members of the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), marched in front of Sever Hall from 9:45 to 10:15 a.m. yesterday protesting the return to Harvard of Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, who was lecturing inside the building.

The demonstrators, denouncing Huntington's role in the formation of the U.S.'s "forced-draft urbanization" policy in Vietnam, chanted slogans such as "Send Huntington to Hanoi, try him by his victims."

The forced-draft urbanization policy aimed at destroying the rural base of the National Liberation Front by drying up the sea of peasants in the countryside.

Jeff Mayersohn '73, a member of the SYL, said yesterday his group hopes to force Huntington to leave Harvard by publicizing his role in the United States foreign policy and in the Vietnam war.

Huntington, who was in Sever Hall teaching the 10 a.m. Government course "American Political Development," said yesterday he neither saw nor heard the demonstrators, and declined to comment further.

Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and Dean Fox watched the demonstration from across the Yard. Both said their primary concern was that classes not be disturbed.

"It looks like a very quiet, orderly demonstration," Fox said.

Sidney P. Verba '53, chairman of the Department of Government, said yesterday the SYL has a "right to their opinion."