by a black racist." But most of the fury of the conservative students was directed at the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee. "The faculty has sold us out," was a widespread comment. "They've reversed their position of yesterday and have now decided to support the revolutionaries with their bodies." "SDS can do anything it wants, like storm troopers, and that's O.K. But us? vVe are told to be non-violent, to be nice and rational, to do nothing. How ridiculous can the faculty get?" "We have no choice," said Paul Vilardi, an incensed College senior. "The President is doing nothing. The faculty is now backing the radicals. The only ones who can bring this nonsense to a halt is us." By 8:30 not a single Negro leader had shown up for the rally. On hand, however, were several hundred proNegro (though not necessarily proSDS) students, several hundred anti-
SDS students in a vigilante mood, amI several hundred curious onlookers, many from the Morningside community. At 8:40 Charles 37X Kenyatta appeared outside the campus gates and started speaking, reiterating his black power claims and anti-white remarks. Some conservative students started heckling Kenyatta, who suddenly told the crowd that, "If one Negro student gets hurt the people of Harlem would come up and wipe out the students and the whole University." The conservatives bristled. At 9:30 Kenvatta then started, with a wedge of young black supporters, to walk through the Columbia gate to continue speaking with his brothers on campus. The conservatives locked arms to prevent his eiltry, and it looked like a fight was imminent. Five white SDS supporters raced down to Harlem to get help for Kenyatta. Dean Harry Coleman, using a megaphone, begged the conservative stu-
dents to let Kenyatta through. They were reluctant. Then a group of -10 police rushed from the other side of Broadway and smashed the conservatives' blockade. Kenyatta entered, walking through College walk, escorted by Dean Coleman, to Amsterdam and down to the gymnasium site, where his rally ended. The conservative students, now nWTIbering about 700, gathered in front of the Sundial. Furious, they decided that Dean Coleman had reneged on his pledge of "definitive action" and had deserted the cause of law and order too. Some went to Hamilton, where a few students, angry at what they felt were the black extremists' threats to burn down Columbia, climbed up onto the windows and second story ledge of Hamilton. But most of the mob went to the quadrangle in front of Fayerweather at 10:30, determined "to pull the hippies, Commies, and pukes out of
An undergraduate opposed to the SDS-led rebellion drums tip support for his views.