Confirmation on the location of the show...(And photo attached)

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1968


Frank da Cruz
Columbia University Academic Information Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
April 1998
Most recent update: 29 Feb 2004 


The Second and Third Busts

In the following weeks, regular classes were replaced by "Liberation classes" on the 
lawns (NEED PHOTO). There were no grades that year. Picket lines were thrown up in 
front of every building. The Grateful Dead played on Ferris Booth terrace. A student 
batallion marched up Amsterdam Avenue to City College to make noise and "link up". 
Organizers for progressive labor unions began circulating pledge cards among 
supporting staff (this cost me my Butler Library job). A contingent from the French 
student/worker uprising handed out those famous posters (unfortunately printed on 
cheap paper, now disintegrated) from the "Ex-Ecole des Beaux Arts", and we also had 
visits from student representatives of many of the other universities that followed 
Columbia's energetic lead that year, who raised clenched fists and gave rousing 
speeches. (Later some of us visited other student uprisings in progress, notably in 
Mexico City, where police and military actions made the Columbia arrests look like a 
lovefest <http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/history/tlatelolco_1968.html> .) 
 
 
 

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