rebels that there had been after the first police action. For one thing, the re-occupation was plainly a tiny minority move, unlike the first demonstration. Secondly, many were becoming convinced that SDS was not interested in academic reforms but in a national strike or at least a local revolution, and was merely using Columbia University. Thirdly, more 88
students saw that the protests were transparently imposed and not indigenous, and that they were being pulled off increasingly with the aid of non-academic outsiders. But most determinative of all were the fires of the previous night. The burnings shocked even some of the student guerillas. One told us, "I didn't know some of the guys would
go that far." But another rebel blithely blamed the fires on the police. "I bet a plainclothesman started those blazes to help cook our skins." Examination of the Hamilton fire the next morning showed that someone had singled out the papers and files of Associate Professor Orest Ranum for burning. Two years of research notes, much of his files and COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY