Students in Low, soliciting support 11'Om the President's office window. During the first two days not much help came. The faculty, most of the students, and even the fairly mel-ical student newspaper were critical of their actions.
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===:=.-""=-'''--<'" posals. The discussion was surprisingly reasoned, considering the tense situation. Several instructors later suggested that this was due to the faculty's near unanimity of shock and distaste for the SDS-SAS moves, deriving from the faculty's traditional loathing for violence and their protection of civil liberties. Only Professor Marvin Harris '50, who along with three other members of the Anthropology Department, inh'oduced other proposals, delivered a passionate, highly partisan speech. More calmly, Professor Robert Belknap of the Russian studies introduced a resolution about suspending construction of the new University gymnasium. It was SPRING, 1968
adopted. In the middle of the meeting, at 3:50, Dean Henry Coleman suddenly walked into the room. The faculty was jolted. As a body it rose to its feet and gave the acting dean a four-minute ovation. Dean Coleman reported to the professors that shortly after 3:00 five SAS students simply opened his door and told him that he and Kahn and Carlinsky could leave. After 26 hours as a prisoner, he was released perfunctorily. The special meeting of the College faculty produced five resolutions: 1. That a University exists as a community dedicated to rational discourse, and the use of communi-
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cation and persuasion as thc means of furthering that discourse. That this Faculty endorses the right to protest, but strongly condemns both obstructive behavior and physical violence on this campus. In this light we deplore the use of coercion, and the seizure of Dean Coleman as a hostage. Further we condemn the act of invasion of the President's office and the rifling of his files. That we believe that any differences have to be settled peacefully, and we h'ust that police action will not be used to clear Hamilton Hall or any other University building. That to the extent that the issues which have arisen in the University community are due to a failure of communication and discussicn within the university, we call upon the Administration to set up a tripartite body to discuss any disciplinary matters arising out of the incidents yesterday and today, the issue of the gymnasium and any other matters which are subjects of legitimate concern to the University community. That this Faculty respectfully petitions the University administration a. to arrange the immediate suspension of on-site excavation of the gymnasium facility in Morningside Park. b. to be prepared to review the matter of the gymnasium site with a group of community spokesmen; the administration will immediately invite the Mayor to designate a group who will take counsel with the University with respect to the location and character of the gymnasium. 29