Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Freshman At Columbia, 1965-1966--Part 7

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The Thanksgiving break came and I went back to Queens to visit my parents. I felt much more distance between us and felt I had changed as a ...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Freshman At Columbia, 1965--Part 6

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Around the time I was still being radicalized in relationship to U.S. policy in Viet Nam, I attended my first off-campus anti-war rally. I...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Freshman At Columbia, 1965--Part 5

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I discovered a bookstore on West 114th St. and Broadway. It was owned and operated by this tall, quiet, solitary white man in his late ‘50s ...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Freshman At Columbia, 1965--Part 4

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Mel had black hair and was of medium height. He was in his mid-to-late 20s. He seemed to know Vietnamese history and the history of U.S. mil...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Freshman At Columbia, 1965--Part 3

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After Freshman Week ended, the rest of the student body returned to the campus for the fall term. I had to move out of my Freshman Week dor...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Freshman At Columbia, 1965--Part 2

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During Freshman Week, there was a big meeting in the Low Library administration building rotunda, where a professor told us that we were a “...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Freshman At Columbia, 1965--Part 1

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The Columbia scene in September 1965 had little connection to the people I had known at Flushing High School. Columbia was a college-level, ...