Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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They also deny doing counterinsurgency work in Thailand, but that's understandable. They always Iie. -Lenny Siegel, New Left Project In the early morning of Monday, October 19, an explosion ripped through two greenhouses at the Inline facilities of the Stanford Research Institute lSRll. Damage was immediately estimated at S60,000. No one was injured. The motive was unknown. No one was claiming credit for the explosion. Rumors had been floating the University of California's Irvine campus that defoliation experiments were being carried out in the greenhouses. But SRI officials denied that defoliation, or any other Defense Department, experiments were being carried on at Irvine. According to Ronald Deutsch, SRI's Manager of Media Relations in Menlo Park, if there was anything related to the Defense Department, it was infinitesimal. Most observers agreed. The same statement was not true, though, regarding SRI on the whole. According to Lenny Siegel of the New Left Project, SRI's work is as bad as it ever was .... They lay out contingencies for limited war in Asia, and do feasibility studies for military projects all over the third world. As a result, at least partly, of the 1969 demonstrations against SRI, the University had severed all ties with the organization. Or vice versa. Many felt at the time of the split that the severance of SRI would end any possibility of redirecting the thrust of its work toward more socially useful projects. The same people now were sure thatthey were right. SRI expected to make S63 million in 1970, up S33 million from the year before. Two-thirds of the work would be done for the government lversus three quarters in 1969ig of the government work two thirds lversus three quarters again in 19691 would be contracted by the Department of Defense. According to Rudolph Brunsvold, Vice-President of plans and special programs at SRI, Defense Department cutbacks were the main reason for the percentage shifts. SRI was apparently doing no research in the field of chemical-biological warfare, crop defoliation, or bomb route cost-analysis. But one third of SRI's defense contracts were said to be classified, and 10'Ms eventually came out with a secret level. Brunsvold summed up the SRI position. We ISRII are a government agency set up by law. We have a mission defined by Congress. We research business, not moraIity. During the Fall quarter, the New Left Project sponsored a War Crimes Commission which, it claimed, might lead to some sort of action against the defendants. SRI was scheduled to be one of those defendants.

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f .fi Q ' Az g 4, 1, . , - - -,fig-A3 gf.. l , iiTKQtxl, -gin fv - M? . . . if you don't believe in violence, if you aren't looking towards revolution, if you call yourself a liberal, you should be trying to do something-which means working in the political system . . . -a member of the Movement for a New Congress In Spring 1970, students had demanded and received a modified Princeton Plan, giving students a four-day election weekend to permit large-scale participation in political campaigning. But as the election approached it became apparent that students had somehow lost their enthusiasm for politics. One could tell it was an election year. The leafletters roamed White Plaza daily recruiting for Tunney, Riles, and even Governor Reagan. Political speeches were given daily, lVlcCloskey, Gubser, lVlcLean, Gomperts, Tunney, Unruh, Bradley, and Rutherford all spoke before Stanford audiences. lVlcCloskey spoke so often that the Stanford Daily considered replacing its 'Today Box' with a 'Pete lVlcCloskey Box.' New political organizations arose, old ones changed their images. The Stanford Committee for Involvement in Politics, headed by Bob Grant, was organized to coordinate and support campus political activities, workshops were given, few came. The Young Republicans tried to shed its conservative image, their first endorsement wasofWilson Riles. The Movement for a New Congress worked for the election of a 'peace-oriented' Congress. But something was lacking. People. And enthusiasm. X V s ' . 4 r . ii'-ET ' . its iff- ' 5 ? W1