Monday, January 14, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Into Columbia SDS, 1966--Part 2

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At the rally, John spoke and emphasized that what students at Columbia now wanted was more student power over University policy decisions an...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Into Columbia SDS, 1966--Part 1

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November 1966 was also the month that, along with Ted and most other ICV activists, I became a Columbia SDS activist. During my freshman y...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Enter Ted Gold, 1966--Part 3

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I started to go down to the Greenwich Village area more often in Fall 1966 on weekend evenings to listen to other folksingers. The Pinewoods...
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...