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Columbia University is once again the center of the radical universe. More than 50 years after anti-Vietnam War demonstrators roiled the Columbia campus in 1968…
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Columbia University is once again the center of the radical universe. More than 50 years after anti-Vietnam War demonstrators roiled the Columbia campus in 1968…
With protests and building occupations at Columbia University 56 years to the day after a previous occupation, and in other ways, too, it seems like 1968 again.
Mark Rudd says a lot has changed in half a century, but not the reason college kids paralyze a campus.
Hulton Archive/GettyThe war is in Gaza, not Vietnam, as it was when Mark Rudd became the iconic leader of the protests that rocked Columbia University more than a half century ago.But 76-year-old Rudd says the anti-war protesters who are now encamped on a lawn in the heart of the Columbia campus share an essential motivation with those of his time.“They're pretty much the same as we were,” Rudd told The Daily Beast. “The basic impetus of the students, I think it's not that complicated. It's that
It's a historical connection many Columbia students involved in this month's protests are acutely aware of.