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Into the Stream. Violence-and university intransigence-were rejected by the special commission, under former U.S. Solicitor General Archibald Cox, that was appointed to investigate last spring's student rebellion at Columbia. Implicitly advising other school administrations on how to avoid such troubles, the Cox report contends that Columbia administrators had too often "conveyed an attitude of authoritarianism and invited distrust" of students and that the roots of unrest lay in a "deepseated dissatisfaction with Columbia life" among nonradical students and faculty. Cox concluded that "the survival of Columbia as a leading university depends upon finding ways of drawing...
Late last spring, the faculty of Columbia created a committee to investigate and evaluate the disturbances on campus during April and May. The committee was chaired by Archibald Cox, Professor of Law at Harvard, and its "General Observations," which conclude its recently released report, are reprinted below...
...theory and spend most of its time expressing a point of view and using the facts to prove its case. And as such, Crisis at Columbia is unlikely to produce the kind of controversy and criticism that have surrounded the Warren Commission Report since its publication. Harvard law professor Archibald Cox and his four colleagues--one of whom was Dana L. Farnsworth, director of Harvard's Health Services--simply tried to find out what happened at Columbia and why. They did not refuse to talk to any witnesses who could offer anything; in fact, Columbia's SDS and Afro Society...
...Archibald Cox likes to recount a tale of the evening he spent at dinner with a group of radical students and how, after a while, they had forgotten he was there and talked of their plans and their politics in front of him. He and his panel worked hard and their report is valuable in that a respectable body of men who can certainly not be considered radical, after a thorough and careful examination, ended up placing the blame for student discontent and student activism on administrators and faculty members. Their goals, as expressed in the report's conclusions...
...page report released Saturday, the five-man Columbia investigative commission, headed by Archibald Cox, professor of Law, blamed everyone--administration, students, faculty, and police--for what happened at Columbia last spring...