Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Discovering IDA, 1967--Part 3

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After completing the research paper, I wrote a folk song condemning both Columbia’s complicity with the Pentagon and U.S scientists who immo...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Discovering IDA, 1967--Part 2

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The Institute for Defense Analyses [IDA]  Annual Reports also revealed that Columbia University President Grayson Kirk was not only a trust...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Discovering IDA, 1967--Part 1

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In early March 1967, by accident, I discovered Columbia’s institutional affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses [IDA]. It happen...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Into Columbia SDS, 1967--Part 14

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Prior to winning the anti-class-ranking campaign, Columbia SDS was preparing to lead a strike, if necessary, and Phil Ochs came to the campu...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Into Columbia SDS, 1967--Part 13

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I wrote a song titled “The SDS Kids” around this time, which reflected my feeling that, prior to meeting “The SDS Kids,” all the men around ...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Into Columbia SDS, 1967--Part 12

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February 1967 remained hectic, with SDS activity on two fronts at Columbia. The Columbia Administration went ahead with its disciplinary act...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Columbia SDS Memories Revisited: Into Columbia SDS, 1967--Part 11

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Around this same time, a regional SDS conference was held in Princeton, New Jersey one weekend. Eliezer and I took a bus from the Port Autho...