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The   Reconstruction
 

  [t is time to wipe the dried blood of

yesterday from our eyes and think of

tomorrow.  There are those who have

accused  the men responsible for  the

brutal and senseleĸs police aotion—men

including President Grayson Kirk and

Vice President David B.  Truman—of

being evil men,  men  who deserve no

part in a genuine academiccommunity,

  We do not agree that Drs, Kirk and

Truman are evil.  They are too foolish

to be called evĩl.  Raised and trained

in a  discipline tn which order  is  the

first desideratum, ín  whích the maín-

tenance of power is the goal to which

all other considerations must be sub-

sidiary, they reacted in textbook fash-

ion.  Behaving  as political realists ra-

ther  than as human beings, they acted

to restore their authority fírstandpick

up what was left of the  University later.

  Of course they  must leave.   They

and Trustee Chairman William Peter-

sen—whose ex cathedra edĩct of Sat-

urday did more toparalyzenegotía.ions

than  almost any other administration

blunder—and Graduate Faculties Dean

George  Fraenkel—who made repeated

attempts to  undercut  faculty discus-

sions with the strikers by  announoíng

that no m'atter  what, Rudd would beex-

pelled—all of  these now-pathetic fig-

ures must remove themselves from the

University they came  so close  to de-

stroying.

  But .that will not,  of course, solve

much morc thantheimmediateproblem

of having a team of men with danger-

ously poor judgmcnt  running the Uni-

versity.  What is necessary is a more

meaningful restructuring of Columbia,

to prevent the sort   of strong-willed

blindness thal  has i.'h;ti';n;tci'ized deei-

sion-making hero in the past.

  Tht;  cjpportunity l;tc:it_g Coiumbia is

a unique and cliiilk.-ngingoi.e. Columbia

now finds itself with  a power vacuum

al its center,  and pressure all around

it.   There are  many on  the faculty

and in the student body whowilltimidly

advocate pretending that nothing really

has changcd—that if we just go back to

our dorms and offices and wait long

enough, the  scalps will heal, and  all

will return to the normalcy  which pre-

cipitated the crisis,   First, thĩs will

never happen;  the trauma has been  toc

great.   Second, it should not happen;

for we now have the opportunity to do

somothíng creative and exciting with

this  University—our  Universily—that

we may never have the chance to do a-

gain.

  The  basic  situation that we must

change was  made íronically clear in

the  supposed legitimation invoked  for

the  arrest of  the demonstrators and

beatings of thepassersby atyesterday's
 

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      NICHOLAS G. GARAUEIS

          Business Maiuiger
 

Final Solution.   The students and fa-

culty had been  "trespassing" on the

private  property of the Trustees, for

it is the Trustees whose names appear

as the legal plaintiffs.  ThisUniversĩty

can  no  longer  remain—in fact or in

law—the "Private  Property"  of  its

Trustees and administration.  Thĩs is

the  concept that must change;   tha't

Columbia  somehow  belongs to  that

group of impotent  old men, that the.,

distinguished scholars  and dedĩcated

students who are thisUnĩversity some-

how  find themselves here only by the

grace of this oligarchy.  This is the.

fundamental reason  why  the demon-

strators barricaded themselves inside

theír buildings and the reason why they

were dragged out head first down the

stone steps a week later.

  Thus, Columbia must be reorganized

from its rancid top  to its fermenting

bottom.  The Trustees must give over

major  decision-making power  to the

faculty, and the faculty must work with

Lts students in attaining and exercising

this power.   The details of  day to day

corporate life  should  be ĩeft in the

hands of the Trustees and admĩnistra-

tors, for it is this talent for  whichthey

were chosen,  and  the  faculty should

not have to occupy itselfwithsuchmat-

ters.  But  decisions s'uch as whether

to build a gym in a park, or whether

to cooperate in defense research, or

whether to expand the College, orwhe-

ther to beat up  students, are decisions

which  should  rightfully  rest in the

hands  of  a group of scholars rather

than industrial tyrants.

  But the manner in whíeh the adminí-

stration and Trustees respond to at~

tempts  to threaten  their power is all

too fresh in our memories. Thetrans-

fer  of  control will be resisted, though

probably not quite  as viciously as it

was yesterday.  Pressure wíll have to

be brought to bear if  we are to wrest

a fast-sinking University from its de-

stroyers.

  We therefore  urge faculty and  stu-

dents to press the strike that has been

called, and not to attend classesat Col-

umbia until:

  —Dr. Kirk, Dr. Truman, Mr. Peter-

son, and all the others responsible for

yesterday's bloodbath  and the consis-

tent ineptness that laid the groundwork

for  it  resign  from their  positions;

  —Tiie Trustees transfer real power

for  the control of  thĩs University  to

its  studcnfs and faculty, retaĩning only

the right tu pro ít.rrna approval.

  We arc  :it.w willing to consign the

manageini-r.. o:  ihc \zyrn, discipline, and

IDA affa;rs In =u_.h a new power struc-

ture; oni'i thc.se jssues are removed

from their currĸnt contextsof commít-

ments and coerctons, their solutionwill

be a good deal less formidable.

  Machinery to engineer these changes

has  already been put into operation,  in

the form of the ExecutiveCommitteeof

the Joint Faculties, chaired byProfes-

sors Alan Westin and Michael Sovern.

Many complex and subtle problems lie

ahead in the task, but we feel certain

that  the end result cannot be worse

than what we  have  been living wĩth.

We  would rather put our faith and our

University ĩn the hands of ourteachers

and our  peers than in the hands ofbank

presidents, construction magnates.and

real estate tycoons.  Appalled at the

past, we are  confident for the future.
 

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