Friday, January 11, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Enter Ted Gold, 1966--Part 2

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Around the time I met Ted, I found myself feeling drawn to Beth. Beth worked as a student volunteer group leader in P.A.C.T. on the same aft...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Enter Ted Gold, 1966--Part 1

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In early October, I attended the Independent Committee on Viet Nam’s first meeting of the year. The room was packed with anti-war Columbia a...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: In Furnald Hall, 1966--Part 2

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What was on Columbia Professor Kesselman’s reading list were works by Marx and Engels, works by Lenin, Bernstein’s book on democratic, evolu...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: In Furnald Hall, 1966--Part 1

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September 1966 finally came and I was glad to get back to Manhattan to live again in a dormitory on Columbia’s campus. Over the summer I had...
Monday, January 7, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Summer Folk Songwriting, 1966--Part 3

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I heard Pete Seeger live for the first time in July 1966 at an evening concert in Lewinsohn Stadium near CCNY at 137th St. in Manhattan. The...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Summer Folk Songwriting, 1966--Part 2

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The other non-work activity I became involved in at this time was doing volunteer work in the Student Peace Union [SPU] office at 5 Beekman ...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Summer Folk Songwriting, 1966--Part 1

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I applied at Columbia’s Placement Office in Dodge Hall for a work-study New York City Urban Corps summer job. But the Lindsay Administration...