Dean Clarence Walton of the adult school of General Studies adcb'essing students in front of Lewisohn Hall, his main building. He kept the building open, served coffee, and engaged in jaw-to-jaw combat with students daily.
then left immediately to bring the resolution to the SAS leaders in Hamilton Hall; and others brought the resolution to Strike Central in Ferris Booth and to Dr. Kirk. Point 4 of the resolution was meant to prevent police action and violence on campus. Most of those who voted for it clearly did so because they believed it would help bring an eventual return to reason, compromise, and peace. It was also clear that a significant portion uf those voting were also largely ignorant of the aims, tactics, and mood of SDS and other student left groups, and of the new militant attitudes in the black communi tv. Also, they voted without a single mention of what was brewing in New York the next night and Saturd2Y -a huge anti-war rally in the Sheep \[eadow of Central Park. Leftist students had designated April 26 as "International Student Strike Day" and the celebration could bring several hundred or a thousand outside allies to Columbia's SDS. \Vith such reinforcements two days away, SDS was in no hurry to draw things to a close that Thursday night. This Kirk and Truman 38
had in mind, but the Ad Hoc faculty mem bel's did not. "'Then the professors left for some supper they found that President Kirk had suspended all classes and ordered all buildings on campus emptied and closed. At Lewisohn Hall, the headquarters of the University's adult School of General Studies, about 200 G.S. students met with their dean, Dr. Clarence \짜alton, and some faculty and decided to keep the building open, defying both the Administration and SDS guerillas. Student and faculty volunteers manned the entrance, and continued to do so until the end of the rebellion. The professors also were handed leaflets announcing a "March on Columbia" and a big rally at 1I6th Street and Broadway at 7:30 p.m. The leaflet promised that Borough President Per~y Sutton, State Senator Basil Paterson, State Assemblvman Charles Rangel, Harlem CORE chairman Victor Solomon, Civil Rights Commissioner William Booth, and Negro militant Omar Ahmed-all black leaders-would be present to speak. The sheet was signed
"The United Black Front." That afternoon, while the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee met, Charles 37X Kenyatta, leader of the extremist Mau Mau Society in Harlem, had harangued a crowd of over 500 students in front of Hamilton Hall, making some inflammatory remarks. Among other things he said that Columbia was trying to take over Harlem, that Morningside Heights should now become a part of Harlem, that the gym ought to be re-negotiated with "the people" of Harlem, and that whites ought to turn Columbia over to black people. These remarks by Kenyatta, plus the fact that several dozen faculty members of more liberal and radical persuasion had put on white armbands and were sitting on the steps in front of Hamilton and Fayerweather to protect the SDS and black students from the police, caused several hundred of the more conservative students to be screwed up to a new fury. "Kenyatta is as bad ;IS Lincoln Rockwell. They ought to throw him off campus," said one student. Said another, "Fil"st we get called white racists by SDS, then we get called scum COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY