Speaker in Hamilton Hall lobby w'ging his fellow protestors to stick with the tiny group of SDS leaders who refused to accept the majority decision of their St'rike Coordinating Committee. The student with the dark shirt and jacket and the cigarette, standing in the center, is Tony Papert, poweljul rebel leader.
trarily, summarily, and illegally expelling the leaders without so much as a hearing. No one from the Dean's Office or Low Library was on haml to explain the actual situation and prevent new student indignation from rising against what sounded like a brutal act. The SDS leaders were thus able to lead about 300 persons into Hamilton Hall after the rally in order to re-capture Hamilton Hall. Of the 300 persons, only half were Columbia students. The rest were collaborative romantics, reformers, and revolutionaries from all over the New York area, especially the anarchist East Village. (Most of the "liberal reformers" had dropped out by this time.) Only two or three young faculty members were among them. Very soon a large portrait of Mao Tse-tung went up over Dean Coleman's door. One speaker with a bullhorn said, directly in front of the poster, "'0le must continue our SPRING, 1968
fight to end the Vietnam war, to stop racism, to get total amnesty. vVe have become leaders of a young people's movement around the whole nation, around the world. vVe will continue to fight. We will win!" At 7:20 p.m. Dean Harry Coleman appeared with a bullhorn in front of Hamilton Hall. He had discussed the new seizure of Hamilton with President Kirk and Associate Dean Platt, and they had decided to stop the re-occupation quickly. He told the sitters-in, who had none of the jovial defiance of the sitters-in on April 23, they they were acting "illegally and against the rights of others" and said, "You are hereby directed to clear this lobby and leave the building." He was met with boos and profanit~!. After 10 minutes, seeing that almost no students were leaving, Dean Coleman returned and announced: "Inasmuch as you have ignored my directive, as dean of this College I have no alterna-
tive but to call the police. Any student arrested will be subject to immediate suspension for an indefinite period." There were more boos, and shouts of "Drop dead," "Bullshit," and "Up Against the Wall." An hour later the police began to assemble near the campus once more. Despite the appearance of surly hardness, however, the students were shaken. There was noisy discussion among those sitting in and considerable alarm. The leftists were encouraged and harangued continuously by Tony Papert, Rudd, Gonzalez, and others, but numerous demonstrators were not persuaded. Should they risk their academic careers to re-kindle Widespread student strikes and social upheaval? The leaders tried to reassure them with comments like, "If we stick together the University would never throw us all out. In unity we have power." "Don't worry about bail money. That will be taken care of." 85