Crisis at Columbia

([New York :  Columbia Spectator,  1968])

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One  Arrested  at   Gym  Site;

Section ofFence  TornDown
 

Cni.ĩMBIA DAILY SPECTA'i'i 'lf
 

               began  shovĩng,

        ■let him go,p and the po-

        ;lippcd in Ihc [ííiwc clirl,

dragging Wilson  doivn.  Students

began hitting and kicking the offi-

ccr, trying to free Wilson.  Scv-

eral otherpoli

Uircugh  the surrounding crowd.

One of them handcuffed Wilsonand

pulled him to his feet.  The pro-

testcrs began shoving, andseveral

policemun andi

knocked donn or pushed aga

large dirt pilc.

        n policemen thensi



tcring the

protcsterĸ were  hit  on thc head,

ũthers on the back and legs. The

croivd reformed ai adisUcicu fruni
 

Protcstcrs  Crowd

Into Hamilton  Ilall

For All-Night Vigil
 

turned toward tl

where "The Man" —Acting Dean

ilenry S. Coieman—stood, flanked

by the l'roccor and Vice Dean o!

the College.

                thc lîed Sea,

the crowd moved back and clearcd

ĩi path-way  b

marked "Dean of Columbla Col-

lege."  The soa of  peoplo then

closed quiekly bchind DcanCole-

man  as he walked inlo  Ilamilton,

               lastniEhlhehad



  During the course of the al

noon, the  atmosphere  inside tlie

ii .'■■: ■;■ cbanged from the first tense

            Dean Colemancon-



Crowded around hmi. j

told  the crowd  that  he tiad "no

     ion of meeting any demands
 

                   started  to

                   themselvos

comíortable. Their leaders bagan

laying plans for an all-night vigil.

  Although a small and staunchly

silont group of students, who were

        to the   SDS-si

'demonstration,  stood in a protee-

tive  formation  around the Dean,

no vlolence bctiveen :



  The first slgns thal tonsion liad

eased iu tho Ilamilt

when red balloons and  L'ropopaper



ivliito plaster  pillars  anil along

its  walls.   For  tho fit'sl time

llamilton lobby saw blow-up pic-

turos of l.onin, Che C.uevara, and

scvoral anli-war  posters liung on

its ivalls nnd columns.

  Lifc-siĩe photographs oCSlokely

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