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Defiance Duplication. Later in the week, though, the university announced the suspension of four S.D.S. leaders, including its chairman, Mark Rudd. In protest, Rudd and a band of his faithful followers then seized Hamilton Hall, the main classroom building of Columbia's undergraduate college. The demonstrators threw up barricades, apparently trying to duplicate last month's five-day defiance of the administration...
This time, university officials presented the dissidents with two alternatives: vacate the building or be suspended. About half of the revolutionaries marched outside; the rest, including Rudd, stayed on and were later taken into custody by police who moved in through underground tunnels. Rudd himself was arrested by a long-haired plainclothesman who, passing as a protester, had mingled with the students and won their confidence...
Exquisite Timing. In the aftermath, it was evident that the police, though certainly provoked, had once again cracked plenty of heads with unnecessary roughness. The university administration had displayed its customary exquisite sense of poor timing in suspending Rudd and the S.D.S. leaders during a period of relative calm and then heightening tension by ordering a full-scale clearing of the entire campus...
...most intent upon keeping the pressure on Columbia remains Mark Rudd; despite his suspension, he has vowed to carry on the students' strike through the summer and into the fall. The day after his suspension, he was back haranguing students, released on $2,500 bail posted by his father, a realtor in Maplewood, N.J. Though they dispute his tactics, Rudd's parents have supported his ambitions. "My son, the revolutionary," says his mother proudly. "I was a member of the depressed generation and my greatest concern has always been making a living," says his father...
...year-old rebel who is willing to go to jail to dramatize his opposition to the draft and the Viet Nam war, Columbia's student strike leaders are demanding, among other things, total amnesty for violating the law. There is the irony that neither Mark Rudd nor most of the other Columbia S.D.S. leaders were even in occupied buildings during the battle with police three weeks ago. Thus they were not among those arrested on criminal-trespass charges. But last week, Columbia's rebellious students got themselves involved in a new fracas over the seizure of a Columbia...