In a March 15 article in the The Oregonian History professor Maurice Isserman, a Reed College SDS member during the late 1960s, commented on the recent efforts to revive the organization. Isserman, co-author of the book "America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s," said that he is encouraged that today's college students, not the elders who formed the original SDS, will reinvent the group for the 21st century.
"I found them refreshingly non-doctrinaire, non-nostalgic and very thoughtful about what they are doing," he says. "They are attracted to the 1960s as a model of activism, but they don't think they are living in the 1960s."
