ior faculty members, especially several in the graduate schools of Law, Medicine, Business, and Engineering, begged Dr. Kirk to call an "ll-faculty meeting in some large hall because the Ad Hoc Faculty group had failed in its mediating attempts. There was also a feeling that the Ad Hoc group was dominated by naive and leftist professors and was being increasingly infiltra ted by radical junior instructors, preceptors, and teaching assistants; that it had rudely neglected to make its membership more representative by not inviting professors from other University schools to attend; that it had arrogated for itself the position of being the University's "faculty" voice; and that it was being "radicalized" by the rebel students. One professor who overheard Professor Seymour Melman say late on Friday night, "We must avoid an allfaculty meeting at all costs. We'll be outvoted by the moderates," was hOlTifled and promptly telephoned Low Library to request such a meeting. That Saturday morning, therefore, President Kirk called an unprecedented all-Faculty meeting for the next morning, Sunday, in the Law School and ordered telegrams to be sent to the nearly 1,400 faculty persons of assistant professor rank and above in every branch of the University. Just before noon, some of the SDS leaders realized that their attempts to
"radicalize" the Ad Hoc faculty members had been too swift and too crude. Three representatives, College seniors Juan Gonzalez and Ted Gold and a second-year architecture student from Avery named Alan Feigenberg apologized to Professor Westin for Mark Rudd's profane remarks of the previous night, said that Rudd would not be part of the negotiating team any more, ?nd asked that "negotiations" continue. Outside the campus just after noon, about 200 militant blacks from Harlem and 200 whites from socialist and extremist groups like the Young Socialist Alliance and Youth Against War and Fascism massed on Amsterdam Avenue in front of the east gate on College Walk. The blacks had banners: "Don't Mess with Black Students" and "Stop Killing Black Leaders." About half the blacks were high school students, 16 or younger, another third were older persons in their 30s or 40s. One black leader, talking with a bullhorn atop an automobile said, ''The system and Columbia are both corrupt. Both must be destroyed!" A woman said to the students inside Hamilton, who paid almost no attention to the presence of the zealots outside their windows, "If Columbia expels you, we'll expel them." The whites were almost all college age, and many were from C.C. .Y. They carried a 12-foot long banner with the word "REVOLUTION" let-
tered in psychedelic style and colors on it. Another banner said, "U.S. Get Out of Vietnam." One of them alleged, "Columbia is the main U.S. university supporting the Vietnam war." After an hour of noisy threats, and a brief address from Mark Rudd and Tom Hayden, telling them that Columbia was the start of a series of revolutionary seizures around the nation, both groups left for the giant Central Park peace rally. By noon, Drs. Kirk, Truman, and Fraenkel, dean of Graduate Faculties, had received several hundred more letters and telegrams in the morning mail, nearly all of them urging President Kirk to take swift and positive action against the rebels. From one of Columbia's most distinguished professors emeriti: "Congratulations on your firm stand against amnesty.... The dignity and integrity of the academic community are at stake." From the president of a noted California university: "In the interest of all hir;her education I urge you to stand firm. The ordeal into which Columbia has been plunged is of consequence to us all. The kind of academic freedom that Columbia and you stand for is hard won and must be maintained...." From the vice president of the student body at a leading college: "At our campus we have had our Placement Office ransacked and the Administration building disrupted and
Leftist students from other New York colleges massed on Amsterdam Avenue on Saturday, April 27. A huge Strike for Peace rally took place in Central Park that day, and some of the young protestors came to Momingside Heights after the rally.
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