The College

ALUMNI hackles, and others as well, are likely to rise when students present their "demands" to college and university administrators. In student jargon today the word has a variety of meanings; it can mean something as mild as a proposal at one end of the definition spectrum or as militant as an ultimatum at the other end.

As reported in this issue, long hours of honest dialogue and negotiation last month produced an amicable outcome to the "demands" of the Afro-American Society. As this issue was going to press, that word was again in the headlines of The Dartmouth, this time in connection with the efforts of SDS and an allied student group to have ROTC abolished by next fall, contrary to the three-year reduction voted by the faculty in Januuary. At a peaceful SDS rally and sit-in, a new student group, Students Behind Dartmouth (SBD), turned out in force to demonstrate opposition to SDS policy and methods. While SDS wore white armbands, the SBDers were identified by white lapel tags reading "Dartmouth -Love It or Leave It."