Word: rudd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overflow crowd of 800 in Lowell Lecture Hall alternately hissed and cheered speeches last night by Mark Rudd of Columbia SDS and Deitrich Wessel of the German...
...When Rudd, the nationally publicized student leader from Columbia tried to speak, he was interrupted three times by hissing and heckling...
Apparently unclear about his audience's stand on the war in Vietnam, Rudd began a historical treatment of the civil rights movement. Again interrupted by someone in the audience, he switched to a discussion of the Columbia protest. About this time the film about Columbia arrived from New York, and, after the failure of the sound system and some confusion with the lights, it was shown...
Playing It Cool. The plan seems to be working. When S.D.S. Leader Mark Rudd tried to register, most of the students present looked on with bored amusement. A brief struggle between the radicals and some elderly gymnasium guards was noted primarily for its comedy. The administration also played it cool when 400 students attending the opening session of the "International Assembly of Revolutionary Student Movements" (a confederation of S.D.S.ers, black militants and European radicals) stormed into a classroom in protest against the university's ban on the meeting. Instead of calling in the police, Columbia stood aside...
...spirited open forum was startled to see Acting President Andrew Cordier amble over to the meeting. He addressed it informally and spoke of building a "dynamic, forward-looking campus" on "a policy of human relationships." When a few students began to heckle him, they were silenced by others. Rudd and his fellow radicals are still determined to provoke a confrontation, but it may be, as one senior put it, that "the revolution will have to wait for spring. Most people want to get in a full semester of courses before the whole business is started up again...