Library, some of the student rebels were sitting on the window sill, alternately grim and gay. The crowd below stared up at them as if they were captive orangutans. Around 1: 00 Commissioner Booth came out of Hamilton. Soon after, about a dozen older blacks climbed out one at a time. Wearing leather jackets, or skull caps, or colorful necklaces, they walked silently, emotionlessly, through the undergraduates and off the campus. No one tried to stop them or talk to them. Later in the day, Booth accompanied by three Harlem politicians, Manhatt,m Borough President Percy Sutton, State Senator Basil Paterson, and Assemblyman Charles Rangel, met with President Kirk to convey their concern about repercussions in Harlem and to ask the University to reconsider its gymnasium plans. Dr. Kirk promised to call a meeting of the Board of Trustees the next day. At 2:00 Psychology Professor Eugene Galanter, Assistant Dean Irwin Glikes, and several others decided to put out a fact sheet to tell the faculty and students what had happened. Rumor and confusion were rife. Spectator had not come out yet. The campus radio station, W'KCR, had not yet started reporting the action promptly. Only SDS was grinding out mimeographed material, of an obviously self-serving sort. But the College Faculty meeting was imminent, so the professors and deans postponed the idea. The communications gap between the administration, faculty and majority of students, and the student rebels was a wide one. With astonishing speed and electronic sophistication, the SDSled whites, much less so the SAS blach, had acquired thousands of dollars worth of loudspeakers, 35mm. cameras, moving picture equipment, mimeograph equipment and supplies, Xerox machines, and dozens of walkie-talkie radios. They had a public relations officer, Jonathan Shils '68, and frequent press conferences. They were in constant touch with the Liberation News Service, a revolutionary-hippy news agency, founded last year by Marshall Bloom, a 23-year old Amherst graduate who was suspended from the London School of Economics for radical activity, and Raymond Mungo, a 22路-year-old 28
ex-Boston University newspaper editor who was noted on campus for his slashing assaults. And the SDS-Ied rebels put in thousands of telephone calls to friends and potential supporters. In contrast, the Columbia Administration, its faculty, and most of the outraged students scarcely knew how to deal with the problem of dispensing information on campus, or to the outside world, and, worse, seemed to display surprisingly little sense of urgency about doing so. At 2:20 Mark Rudd and five other SDS leaders, who had climbed back into the President's office, appeared at the Low security desk to ask for passes
so that they could re-enter Low after attending a meeting in their Ferris Booth headquarters. When the campus guards refused to grant passes, Rudd exploded, "We have to maintain our internal unity too, you know!" The six left in a huff and climbed out the windows instead. The College Faculty met in the huge amphitheater lecture room in Havemeyer Hall. An enormously high proportion of the teaching faculty were there. President Kirk chaired the meeting. Vice President Truman reviewed the incidents of the previous 27 hours dispassionately and in detail. Then Professor Daniel Bell put forth four proCOLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY