The spirit of '68: an SDS radical returns to Columbia, disappointed.(Intelligencer)(Mark Rudd of the Students for a Democratic Society)(Interview)

New York | April 28, 2008 | Copyright

FORTY YEARS AGO this week, students at Columbia occupied five university buildings, including the president's office in Low Library, to protest the school's participation in a Defense Department think tank and a plan to build what the students called a "racist" gym in Morningside Park (neighborhood residents were to have a separate entrance). Mark Rudd, chairman of Columbia's chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, emerged as spokesman for the protesters. A week later, when the NYPD raided the buildings and ended the takeover, more than 700 students were arrested and ...

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