Talk:Columbia University protests of 1968の英語

I was present as a journalist at this event. I used an old Columbia ID (class of 1960) to gain access everywhere, and happened to live across the street, so I missed very little. The occupied buildings in order were: Hamilton Hall, President's Office in Low Library, Kent Hall (by School of Architecture students only, after they were ordered to leave the building while working on projects), Fayerweather Hall, Math. I was in all of these at one time or another, but mostly in Fayerweather. The remarks about Dean Coleman are inaccurate. The protesters begged him to leave, and I actually interviewed him through his office window, and offered to try to escort him out. He was a voluntary occupant, not a prisoner. This has been widely misrepresented over the years. Also, despite the blockade of those occupying Grayson Kirk's office, food and other supplies reached them, as supporters stood outside the ring of blockaders (who were encouraged and themselves supplied by an Engineering Professor), tossed things through a window. The blockaders tried to prevent this by tossing sweaters and jackets into the air, until one jacket was carried through a window by a large can of fruit. Finally, exactly one protester in the Math building avoided arrest by hiding in a cabinet. He claimed to see police trashing offices after the protesters were removed. T. W. Hamilton24.168.96.8 (talk) 18:56, 17 January 2011 (UTC)