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...Columbia student has been anonymous in his community. No social unit brings students together to meet. Students eat off campus in restaurants; the college doesn't have a major food plan. Dormitory room doors always lock automatically...
...cops come in. The eight of us sit down on the stairs (which we've made slippery with green soap and water) and lock arms. The big cop says don't make it hard for us or you're gonna get hurt. We do not move. We want to make it clear that the police had to step over more chairs to get our people out. They pull us apart and carry us out, stacking us like cord wood under a tree. The press is here so we are not beaten. As I sit under the tree...
...rams a wooden sign through the security office side doors and about 200 of us rush in. Another 150 hang around outside because the breaking glass was such a bad sound. They become the first "sundial people." Inside we rush up to Kirk's office and someone breaks the lock. I am not at all enthusiastic about this and suggest that perhaps we ought to break up all the Ming Dynasty art that's on display while we're at it. A kid turns on me and says in a really ugly way that the exit is right over there...
...freshmen streaked out the gate by Holworthy before a lone cop could lock it up. They poured across the Cambridge Common to Radcliffe, then came back through the Common toward the Houses. They ran around Quincy's courtyard for a while, then took off down Mass Ave. with 30 upperclassmen added to their ranks...
...Communists, who by allied count have lost 71,000 men since Tet, could muster a second offensive on the same devastating scale. But just in case they tried, allied troops were put on the alert throughout South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...