the food fell short or hit the walls and splattered down on the professors. Said one professor, wiping tomato juice from his shoulders, "I never thought I'd see the day. Progressive students behaving like Mafia goons, and burly conservatives standing there stiff and dignified as Martin Luther King." Said another professor, "Now the liberal professors know what it is to 'negotiate' with orth Vietnam." By 8:00 the student radicals gave up trying to break the blockade and withdrew to the Sundial to have a participatory session about further tactics. At 7:15 p.m. President Kirk announced that, owing to his desire to study the Ad Hoc group's "bitter pill"
resolution carefully, the University would continue to be closed officially on Monday. (The Strike leaders had denounced the compromise as soon as it appeared, but Dr. Kirk, trying to respect faculty wishes, decided to respond to it anyway.) To many, that signalled no police raid on Sunday night, and most persons used the night to sleep. The only dramatic event that broke the stillness on Sunday night was a "wedding" at 11:30 p.m. Two of the radical students in Fayerweather Hall, Richard Egan and Andrea Burrow, decided to marry suddenly and the Reverend William Starr, Episcopalian revolutionary, agreed to marry them. The bride wore a white sweater, jeans, and sneakers while the groom wore a white Tehru jacket, jeans, and black boots. Reverend Starr pronounced them "children of the new age" at a ceremony in Fayerweather. After the ceremony they marched in a candlelight procession to the Sundial, where Starr kissed the bride, and someone hit a large pan to simulate the sound of a gong. The couple supposedly spent their wedding night on the top Roor of Mathematics. Monday, April 29 was proclaimed "The Day of Decision" by the desperate Ad Hoc group leaders. Only partially aware that they had made unusual and somewhat radical demands of President Kirk, and that the SDS students were not taking the final attempt at compromise seriously, the Ad Hoc steering committee, hoping against almost certain failure, that morning called and sent telegrams to everybody from Senator Jacob Javits to the American Association of University Professors, asking that they put pressure on President Kirk to yield. (Almost no pressure was put on the strikers.) They also collected signatures on a petition. President Kirk had spent most of Sunday night deliberating with other
011 Sunday afternoon, April 28, the President's office in Low Library was sur1"Ounded by nearly 1,000 faculty, "Maiority Coalition pickets, and students Oil both sides of the sit-in.
administrators, several senior professors, and a few trustees the "bitter pill" resolution. By 10:00 a.m. he was ready with an answer, which he gave in person to Professors Westin and Daniel Bell in Low Library. As the president soon after put it in writing for everyone on campus to read: I commend and fully share the objectives of the resolution adopted by the ad hoc faculty group on April 28. I am deeply grateful for the dedicated concern for the integrity of the Univcrsity that their proposals imply. I am confident that the following decisions carry out the essential spirit of their proposals.
Dr. Kirk reaffirmed his willingness to go along with the new tri-partite commission whose decisions would be "binding," and said he would "recommend to the Trustees that the statutes of the University dealing with disciplinary matters be re-examined." As for the matter of uniform penalties, the president said it "will be referred to the tri-partite commission," since such matters were aheady "part of the commission's mandate." As for the gym, Dr. Kirk said he would recommend to the Trustees that they "proceed with discussions" as the Ad Hoc resolution recommended. Both President Kirk and Vice President Truman felt that the response was fairly positive and went as far as they could reasonably go. Professors Westin and Bell, however, and especially Dr. Westin, felt the response was unclear and "essentially negative." The two scholars then met with three SDS leaders, who came without Rudd, and told the rebels that they ought to consider the "bitter pill" resolution seriously since it was their last chance to avoid a police bust. The Strike Coordinating Committee met beginning at noon for nearly three hours. The representatives from Avery and Fayerweather said that although they opposed the Ad Hoc "ultimatum" they would like to continue talks with faculty representatives. Those from Low and Math opposed the vVestin proposal outright. In fact, the representatives from Low, where Maoistoriented Tony Papert held the reins, proposed that the strikers, aided by SDS-organized "green armbanders" attempt to smash the food blockade again to protect the rebels' "ri!l;ht to food and free access," and to split the facultv further. Low shldents also ad61