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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style of politics is to clarify the enemy, to put him up against the wall," says Mark Rudd, 20, Columbia's leading advocate of student power. Unmistakably up against the wall following the student seizure of five campus buildings, the university last week all but suspended formal undergraduate classes and canceled final exams. At the same time, however, a sense of fresh purpose seemed to be infecting almost everybody on the Morningside Heights campus except Rudd and his radical followers...
...Game of Trustee. Sealed off to all but those bearing university identification cards, the Columbia campus had an almost festive air. Leaflets dealing with strike issues flooded the campus, and loudspeakers blared out impassioned oratory. A rock band entertained students with well-amplified sounds, and at one point a pro-rebel group staged a mock funeral procession. A group called the Pageant Players acted out skits lampooning the administration, and played a game of their own invention called "Trustee" on what resembled an outsize Monopoly board...
Picketed by strikers, many university classroom buildings were almost empty, but students and teachers convened on campus lawns or in private apartments to resume their work. One art-history instructor had his class meet him, appropriately, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a class in Oriental civilization gathered at the New Moon Inn, a Chinese restaurant. Leaders of the strike boasted that all courses held outside of university buildings were really "liberation classes"-and issued daily mimeographed listings of time and location for such courses as "liberated French" and "liberated genetics...
Meanwhile, the campus was being kept in ferment by Rudd, an improbable young revolutionary from a middle-class neighborhood in Maplewood, N.J., whose father deals in real estate, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Capable of inflammatory rhetoric on an improvised platform but often disarmingly polite with his professorial elders. Mark Rudd is a B +average junior majoring in European history. A one time Boy Scout troop leader, Rudd joined the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society last year, lives in an off-campus apartment adorned with posters of Mao and Che (he visited Cuba...
...head of the Columbia student strike, Rudd was clearly trying to shut down the university completely. He led midday rallies at Low Library, threatened to defy university regulations by organizing another demonstration inside a campus building, staged a confrontation with New York City police outside the university's main gate in order to challenge the ban against outsiders on campus. On cue, some 1,000 demonstrators gathered at Broadway and 116th Street. But there was no repetition of the bloody clashes that had marked the previous week's events. Police shrugged off the student taunts, and within...