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...Most of the campus uprisings that happened in the late '60s happened with some reference to what happened at Columbia," says Alan Brinkley, a former Harvard faculty member who is now a professor of history at Columbia. "The idea of occupying an administration building at Harvard certainly owed a lot to Columbia...
...Says Brinkley:" Both Harvard and Columbia were as much about finding ways to allow privileged students at universities to fulfill themselves as they were to fight particular social injustices...
...that grew up in the '60s in the midst of extraordinary affluence, that led us to expect something from the world that generations before us hadn't expected: a level of personal fulfillment and freedom, and the therapeutic gratification that society didn't make easy to maintain," says Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University and a former Harvard faculty member...
...extremely interested in the NewDeal--for reasons beyond the fact that his lastname was Roosevelt," Brinkley recalls...
...very well," adds Brinkley. "He probablywould have done better if he hadn't had so manyoutside activities, but he was a very goodstudent...