\Vhen some students taunted and surrounded policemen on \Vednesday, May 1, another flurry of violence broke out.
m\"Sterious callers.) .The Vice President of Antioch College, Morton Rauh, wrote a letter to the Jew York Times the following dav, which said in part: The parents meet; they have a fracas on the platform. What's the first thing they do? Telephone for the police. Then, with order restored, they spend the rest of the evening belaboring the Columbia administration for calling the police. It' a tough business, college administration. Better to stay on the sidelines where the consequences of a decision can't touch you, and you are free to criticize to your heart's content. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, meetings-indoors and outdoors, formal and informal, high-level and participatOly for everyone-went on in each of the Universit\路's schools. The College's powerful Committee on Instruction, a faculty body that determines the academic program and rules at the 2,700-man College, decided on Thursday to allow each student to choose the grade of "pass" or "incomplete" instead of a letter grade for the Spring term. They urged also that "No SPRING, 1968
shldent should receive an 'F' for the Spring term courses." On Sunday, an all-College Faculty meeting approved these ideas, voted to resume classes on :\Ionday, May 6, on whatever basis each professor chose, and to abolish final examinations. On Thursday, May 2, an expanded Strike Steering Committee met for the first time. The new policy-making group initially had 37 members, each representing about 70 students "in support of the strike and not attending university classes." They decided, after a marathon 10-hour meeting, on two primary conditions: total amnesty with no legal action against all strikers arrested, and a key role for the Strike Steering Committee in restructuring the University. At a large, open Student-Faculty meeting on \,yednesday, Columbia anthropologist :\Iargaret :\lead called Columbia's struchlre "archaic," and liberal Professor Samuel Coleman said that the demand for the resignation of Drs. Truman and Kirk would only retard needed University reforms.
Perhaps most amazing of all the after-effects of the strike and police bust, though, was the flowering of new organizations at Columbia. The most important was the new 12-man Executive Committee of the Faculty, set up by the entire senior faculty at its Tuesday meeting in St. Paul's Chapel "to rehlr11 the University to its educational task." This group of illustrious scholars moved fast. Within a few days it recommended that "all charges of criminal trespass and resistance to arrest be dropped"; that a fact-finding commission of the highest level be selected to determine the origins and the facts of the rebellion; and that a studv be initiated of the statutes and pres'ent structures of the University with a view toward improving and updating them. The Executive Committee was almost instantly charged with being "fellow-travelling radicals" by conservative faculty and students and castigated for "selling-out" to the Administration by the radical faculty and students. The Strike Steering Committee ridiculed it as both "undemocratic" 75