Columbia Buckles Under

On the afternoon of Friday, May 7, it was raining at Columbia. Accordingly, the university branch of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps arranged to move its annual awards ceremony and outdoor military review to Low Library, once a real library but now the University’s chief site for ceremonial occasions. The ceremony, the most important in the four- year training career of the student midshipmen, was scheduled to begin at 3:00 P.M.

Another Columbia group had its meeting forced indoors. The Columbia University Independent Committee on Vietnam, the more moderate of the two Vietnam-oriented isolationist groups on campus (its leaders do not openly identify themselves with Communist China), received official permission to meet in Hewitt Lounge in Ferris Booth Hall, the student activity center. Scheduled to speak were a professor of history from Yale, a professor of sociology from Adelphi, and a Columbia instructor in French.

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On the afternoon of Friday, May 7, it was raining at Columbia. Accordingly, the university branch of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps arranged to move its annual awards ceremony and outdoor military review to Low Library, once a real library but now the University’s chief site for ceremonial occasions. The ceremony, the most important in the four- year training career of the student midshipmen, was scheduled to begin at 3:00 P.M.

Another Columbia group had its meeting forced indoors. The Columbia University Independent Committee on Vietnam, the more moderate of the two Vietnam-oriented isolationist groups on campus (its leaders do not openly identify themselves with Communist China), received official permission to meet in Hewitt Lounge in Ferris Booth Hall, the student activity center. Scheduled to speak were a professor of history from Yale, a professor of sociology from Adelphi, and a Columbia instructor in French.