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  Sleep has been  in  short  supply for

many people on campus this week, and

along with this shortage there has been

a shortage  of perspective.  The Trus-

tees,  who generally lack any elear con-

ception of  what  ĩs   going  on among

students  at Columbia, have completely

lost  their grasp  of  what is happet.ing

in the  current demonstrations.   The

administration, which has alreadysho.vn

itself all too  quick to react with vio-

lence as a solution to  the crisĩs. seoms

;il the end of its tether.  And  the body

that.  is holding that tether, the ad hoc

faculty group,  shows signs of dropping

from  complete exhaustion  in  the face

of relentless oppositíon to their efforts.

  But  the most serious  loss  of per-

spective  has been shown by the students

negotiating  on the side of the  demon-

strators.  When the SDS-Ied protesters

took over Low Library and Hamilton,

Avery, Fayerweathcr, and Mathematics

HaLls, their aims seemed legitimate and

noble: to protest the mismanagement of

this  University which has resulted  in

such political and mo.al abortions as the

gym in MornÍngsideParkandColumbia's

sponsorship of the ĩnstitute for Defense

Analyses.

  The protesters  soon seemed to be

winning  their point.   Important seg-

ments of the  student body and faculty

were becoming "radicalized."  Thenthe

people inside  the buildings completely

lost sight of the revolution,

  What is at stake is the restructuring

of Columbia  University,   Yet through-

out the latter  part of the week, the de-

monstrators consĩstently refused to ac-

cept any solutions atallthatwereoffered

them by the faculty group,

  Then, working all night Saturday and

into Sunday moming, a frazzled team of

faculty medíators camc up with a set of

proposals to bring together theintransi-

gent  insurgents and  ossified admini-

str^tion. Theadhoc group recommended

that discipline fortheprotestîngstudents

be determined byatri-partitécommittee

with final authority, and  urged  that the

University statutes be revisedtoremove

such power from the president.

  The proposal went  on to suggest that

all students now demonstrating receive

equal punishment.  In view of the diffi-

culty of assigning specific blame insuch

a case, this  seems completely justifi-

able.

  The ad hoc  faculty  group also asked

the University to adopt a plan te confer-

rĩng with the faculty  and community on

plans for the  current gym, so that ffnal

plans wîil meet the demands of thecom-

munĩty.  An important precedent could

thus have been made  for ali future ex-

pansion projects.
 

  ROBERT FRIEDMAN

     Edilor - in - Chief

NICHOLAS G.  GARAUFIS

     Bttsincss Manager
 

COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR
 

ĩn  such  larger questions.    Whether

throui.ii fatigue or singular short-sight-

edness, they turned down a plan fci' re-

forming this University because the de-

tails  of their  set  of demands had not

been met.  The result docs not promise

to be healthy.

  But the demonstrators were not, ac-

corditig to their spol.esmen, interested

    has been saidthatthedemonstrators

are asking for  too much. Yetina crucial

sense they are asking fortoolittle. They

are ínsisting on a set of demands which

will have, at most,  a short-iived effect

on Columbia.  And at the same timetliey

    turning down  tlie  promise of real

change in the  nature of power  at Coi-

umbia.

  Fatigue is  seductive, yet what is  at

stake  here is  too precious  to sleep on.

We  tíierefore propose the following for-

mula as another try—the last, we hope—

to end the crisis and end it  with a net

gain to the University.

    The faculty must make a set of pro-

posaĩs simiiar in many ways to the  ad

hoc proposal adopted yesterday, butwitfi

the  following  difference: the solution

cannot be  posed as a series of  "sug-

gestions" to the administration.  As long

   the faculty serves in the role of med-

iator, its  chances of success are dim-

inished.   Several hundred members  of

the  faculty must put themselves on the

Iine behind tlie proposai, and ĩnsist—not

insinuate—that tliey will resign if their

proposal  is accepted by the students but

turned down by the administration.

    The gym  must not be  built on its

present site  using  present  plans.  Its

fate must be subject to the kind of com-

munity-f aculty- administration   control

outlined in the  ad hoc proposal.

    The University—and its  officers—

must end alladministrativeparticípation

in  the Institute for Defense Analyses.

We, too,  would prefer  to be  able to let

this matter be  decided  by.the Ilenkin

committee, whichĩsnowconsideringout-

side  affiliations, but  the situation now

is grave enough to  merit disregard for

such jurisdĩctional niceties.

  —All students involved in protests re-

lated  to the above issues must be given

equal punishment,  wth guilt and  sen-

tencing to be  in the  final power of a

bi-partite student-faculty committee.

  Spokesmen for both  sides have indi-

cated  privately rhat such  a proposal

would generate at the very least mean-

ingful dialogue between faculty and pro-

testers,  and  quite  possibly could lead

to  a solution.   The students  inside  the

buildĩngs  must at this point  ask them-

selves just what causes they areinthere

for, and  whether they really wouldpre-

fer to create a situation in which the

University will bumble along as before.

with the same arbitrary power relation-

ships, or  whether they  are going to suc-

cessfully  end  this  demonstration in i

genuine  reform of Columbia.  Every-

body  is tired,  and many are on the verge

-of complete unreasonableness. Wethere-

fore  implore  all sides to consider the

proposals—and thealternatives—wehave

outlined.  It is getting very late.
 

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