In this series of interviews, almost all conducted on the Columbia University campus in May, 1968, participants and observers--student activists (conservative, independent, and radical), junior and senior faculty, administrators, supporting staff, and parents--describe and discuss the many phases of the crisis that resulted in the occupation of five Columbia buildings by students April 23 and 24, the suspension of classes, fruitless negotiations, police intervention on April 30, a campus wide strike, a lesser eruption May 21-22, and the eventual restructuring of the University. Factors behind the crisis are examined and weighed in tones ranging from analytical detachment to passionate concern. A researcher for the Archibald Cox Fact Finding Commission read a small fraction of this material, with the explicit permission of each interviewee. The project was conducted independently by the Oral History Research Office. Participants, pagination, and restrictions: Jacques Barzun, 17 (permission required); Lawrence Berger, 43 (permission required); Bureau of Applied Social Research Study, 46 (permission required); John D. Cannon, 86 (permission required); Thomas S. Colahan, 49; Henry S. Coleman, 46 (certain pages closed); Columbia Concerned Parents meeting, 72; Cathleen Cook, 45 (permission required); William Cumming, 58 (permission required); Herbert A. Deane, 34; William T. de Bary, 29; Jay Facciolo, 59 (permission required); Mark Flanigan, 95 (permission required); Robert Fogelson, 44; Joel Frader, 48; James Goldman, 24; James Grossman, 38; Marvin Harris, 50; Richard Hofstadter, 30; Terence Hopkins, 74; International Journalism Students, 41 (permission required); Jeffry Kaplow, 59; Peter Kenen, 73; Grayson Kirk, 40 (permisison required); Polykarp Kusch, 33; Robert Masters, 47 (permission required); Seymour Melman, 37; Walter Metzger, 33 (permission required); Barbara and David Nasaw, 97; Alexander B. Platt, 41; Project planners meeting, 57 (permission required); Orest Ranum, 49 (certain pages closed); David Rothman, 68; Frank Safran, 156; Howard Schless, 10; James P. Shenton, 8 (permission required); Bruce Smith, 74 (permission required); Lionel Trilling, 78; David B. Truman, 83 (permission required); Paul Vilardi, 90; Immanuel Wallerstein, 265.
