European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A or f,5. J. I if i u Irja i i \ i of. . Plainclothes men give heave to to student protestor. By h. D. Quigg up staff writer the Columbia University president Shouse fronts on a High Bluff Over looking new Lork s 30-acre, City owned Morningside Park Long a place of broken bottles and benches crumbling Cement stairs and violent  the Park lies Harlem. To the mansion s rear lies the Campus. In both directions the Outlook is onto trouble. / the House is remembered by Ameri cans who voted in the Eisenhower Era As the one from which the general stepped out into a dark november night in 1952in great secrecy to fulfil his pledge that if elected president i will go to Korea to seek a War  Ike had campaigned Columbia s acting president Grayson Kirk filled Inas Boss of the University. _ the  was wracked by the korean War. A decade and a half later it is in deep Travail hot Only Over an other foreign conflict in Vietnam but Over the Homegrown Specter of disordering blighted Urban areas of which the negro enclave of Harlem is an Arche Type. A student rebellion against the school administration Kirk succeeded Eisen Hower virtually paralysed the 17,500-student, 214-year-old University. The main immediate issues were two fold Columbia s tie to a government military research program project aimed at oppression of the people of Vietnam and its proposed building Ofa gymnasium in the Park with separate entrances and athletic facilities for Stu dents and Harle mites. But these were Only symptomatic of the main want More voice More say so by students and faculty in decision making. The want is in step with a Gen eral student ferment and protest that Marks this decade As a time of youth quake a time of general disenchant ment and distrust of their elders who in their View have pretty badly messed up the world. Varsity buildings they had. Held f Oil week 720 persons were arrested and 148 injured Iris what Many huge cd is police  of i is. President Kirk Haaf Fina decided Socall the police in calling the decision the most painful one i Ever  found his office in wreckage Furni Ture smashed files  University estimated damage to the five buildings at several Hundred thousand dollars. One member of another College faculty there As an observer wrote the police commissioner commending the be Havior of police in removing negro sit ins from one Hall but saying police had deliberately destroyed  an the Columbia ordeal of 1968 began on april 23, and resulted in a near paralysis of academic life and a Battlefront atmosphere of shouted obscenity. Mimeograph barrages from both sides rebel reports from the front and Mill Tant speeches. Most classes were closed. The demonstrations were the tangible Mark of the end of Anta Poch to famed a c t to the Shadow would have been j.?7jjsmk system has brately called a i so a. Or si5bha5br s5i" Tho 11 a million gym Inland approved by City and state nine " years ago As an Earnest gesture of a. J.-. Into a it to to Vilma us a the site of the i names speak in cuts tout capitals above the 14 columns of Butler Library looking toward the Sundial at the Center of the Columbia Campus Homer Herodotus Sophocles Aristotle Demosthenes Cicero Vergil facing them looking toward the Sundial from the North is the Campus famed grecian gowned Stone Alma mater. During the struggle the heroic sitting statue held a White Tulip student Flower Power in her left hand and wore backcloth bands on both arms a student sign of sympathy that blossomed generally after the 2 30 . Bust april 30 in which 1,000 policemen cleared around 700 sit in strikers from five uni Page 12 a i it v Columbia president s office was m after eviction of dissident students from r besieged Campus buildings. 1 to _ \ i f it up anthropologist Margaret Mead who hashad.48 years of association with Ciura Bia As student and teacher. Thet rational / University student Community relationship she said is As dead a Dodo but unfortunately most Peop Don t know it so a lot of people have get their Heads cracked open. I think she said we shall begin meet the violence problem on campy and in University Community up a Nisi when we Grant Young men Ana the ngh to be treated not As hindi in if. Disciplined and protects in to. I a " i a v discipline an protected from the Eifes Hoff antisocial behaviour byj1 faculty with tenderness an rights  Gity a the Community or Mead was one erf 340 total sacked out student watches cops patrol As protestors Block Library Entrance the stars and stripes strike which was annoy Rafter the police raid a a a vice president of the a Council and endorsed by the Pregot the un4ergraduate and graduate Dent councils App the formal strike came a week the deliberate touching off of a Urbance by the relatively my Cal students for a Democrat a i i whose Columbia unit has an Esti 1 to 300 members. A consider of students opposed the re i indeed some prepared to take opposition but there was  support after the to 3 committee claimed to is web leaders and 4 an lit demanded the Resigna we. Andr his vice president in later ads chairman who also is on the-37-Mem steering committee  drop that demand aft ,3aid the strikers would con-i1" demand a Promise of no re 2s-students involved i in the of fish. Al participation Induc no of. The University v Neri cans were aroused Byth seized Berkeley student the null a Rike committe eng the a Sty to comm itself sps8tleatest,? of to Janesi possible s-4" were the crisis we Are i Here should demonstrate a that the present Stem of University be i pcs Pete and the style of relations to v the larger  she, of quasi parental discipline should be responsible for their behaviour to the same civil authorities that other adults Are. The Sundial in Campus Center seven feet in diameter set on a Marble stand that � raised two feet is a we he they regrouped Ati the Sundial.,Rudd told them were going to have to take a hostage. He later said he acted on impulse they went to Hamilton Hall and surrounded Henry Coleman acing Ean of Columbia College the under graduate unit. He declined to reply . Demands 4,of hating gym construction and severing defense research ties. They voted . To hold my captive in his office. Coleman was held for 24. Hours. At 8-p.m. An unidentified  crowd that Hamilton would be held until demands were met and said tie Black Community is taking -6 15"  wednesday april300 White students went from to Low broke in and bar Kem selves in Kirk s suite. And so it went. By thursday morning the rebels held five buildings. I ". A majority coalition opposing the action threw a ring around Low--r Barry. They were served by the school food service but allowed no food to the protesters. Supporters of thei rebel threw Lood to them through the win Dows. Morningside Heights the 12 Block Long Cliff sided neighbourhood where Columbia and several other schools and the renowned Riverside Church on the Hudson River Are to is Nir Harlem  up. Co Lumbia goes Down " its president said the gym was a Symbol of further encroachment into the Black Community. Then the University stopped construe pm toe gym at the revert of a York mayor John v. Una  mayor in a speech 4n Sodiana later said students had a right to dissent but that the Columbia affair exceeded the most Liberal perimeters and then ended by hoping the University would like a greater Effort to improve relations with the larger Community Nelson a. Rockefeller called the Columbia dispute a tragic situation declining to blame the administration but saying if the right decisions had been made earlier it might not have Vin the Aiumu groups divided. George Kel Ler editor of the alumni Magazine co Lumbia College today agreed wit Many observers that Kirk has not been close enough to tire  but he believed Kirk had done great things during his 15-year tenure and pointed to the building program fund raising gain stand Rise in academic standards. Keller said he wrote a leading a tide recently discussing the University Power Structure and said he had Joiner others in calling for More response to demands for student faculty  he did t expect a crisis like this one these kids Don t  want to overthrow and change the whole  would be the ads. Columbia chapter head Rudd looks like the boy next door Blond Blue eyed clearcut hair stylishly Down Over forehead. Reclaims a Pean s list Grade average. He believes in a world where universities won t exploit people and mess up their lives he believes his vision of a new free University can t come about without a revolution in american society working with spa As a prime mover f continued