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STATES DEPARTMENT OF a a 3 .O 3 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to ) Chicago, [Illinois File No CG 100~15069 July 16, 1968 ENTIAL a | _ NEW UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE he July ld, 1965 issue of the "Chicago Sunday Tribune" carried an article on page lé, entitled, ") New ‘ Left’ Forms Grou, to Eacourage Student Rebellions." The article stated in part as follows: , "Graduate students and young faculty members in leading Auerican universities have founded a new organization to promote revolutionary changes not only : in the universities but in the whole social system of this country. It is chlled the New University conference. r A Robert; Ross, a graquate,student. in sociology at the University pirthicago, is national director of the enterorise. One of its main purposes, he says, is to ‘Tend organized support to student rebellions. '" bis On June 13, 1968, a source who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that, Bob \Ross was self-described as a founder and former Vice ‘Sresident oft ‘StudetitsPor™a”Denocratic™Soci ety” “(sps yr ante en eee LUNES UNE NG Tr AAU ee Oost ate ania “Hy | “ pad wien ed EA a whet OTe A characterization of SDS appears in the attached = aooendix. The article mentioned above continued as follows: nee p by Chaplain. f "Richard }Flacks, an assistant professor of sociology at the University” ‘of” Chicago, asserts’ in the first issue of the NIULC. newsletter that the universities, thru their research and training services to government and the corporations, have becowe closely integrated in the political economy and are as indisvensable to its functioning as, the factory, the bank, and the government.'" Le SEES i This document coutains neither recomuendatious nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. ad from automat ing ane