Inside the occupied buildings on the moming after. Top left photograph shales President Kirk's suite; bottom left shales a comer of his desk top. Tlco photos on the right show the interior of Mathematics Hall, the most vandalized of the bUildings.
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drawings of £lowers, and a cra\'oned message on one wall "vVe All Slept Here." Avery, too, was reasonably neat. There were several peace and antiwar messages on the walls, a few smashed doors, and the cork-and-wood barricades on the fourth £1001', but the world's greatest architectural librarv on the ground £1001' was untouched, as was most of the building. In Faverweather, manv facultv offices on the fourth, fifth, and sixth £1001'S had been entered and the professors' files inspected, but except for slight untidiness, there was little damage. A sign on the sixth Roar read, "This area has been (1) liberated (2) cleaned. Please keep it that wav." Generall,·, the blackboard slogans in Faverweather were wittier than those in the other buildings, Sample: "Revolutionarv Spice. A new ingredient in Columbia involvement." These were in addition to scribblings such as "Che Lives, Do You?" and "Up Against thc Wall." The third £1001' was less pristine. But even there, onl~r the lounge, the scene of man v meetings and the stronghold of the most violent resisters, suffered broken furniture, stains, and general disarrav. The Mathematics building, which had had a $200,000 renovation onlv six months before, was different. Destruction there seemed almost wanton and s~'stematic, Over $150,000 worth of damage was done b~r the rebelling students. Virtually every office and classroom had been entered, with manv of the locks and glass panels in the doors smashed. Papers had bcen riRed and, in a few cases, scattered about. Librarv shelves had been dismantled to make barricades for the windows. Almost evervwhere-on the blackboards, walls, t;ble tops-there were slogans scrawled, in paint, chalk, crayon, and ink. A national revolution was dearlv on the minds of most of the Mati; occupants, "Mathematics translated into action REVOLUTION," read one blackboard formula. "It's only the beginning" and "Victorv or death!" read two other huge pieces of graffiti. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Guevara, and Castro were deadv the Math students' heroes. Huge "CHE" signs were apparent, as were slogans like "Create tIVO, three, malll' COllllllbias," an echo of Che's suggestion to
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