There are parallels between the two high-profile events, most starkly the proliferation of similar protests around the country. But key differences set them apart.
American activist Mark Rudd, center, president of Students for a Democratic Society , addresses students at Columbia University on May 3, 1968.American activist Mark Rudd, center, president of Students for a Democratic Society , addresses students at Columbia University on May 3, 1968.A takeover of Columbia University's South Lawn by pro-Palestinian students last week is drawing comparisons to 1968 — another time when police were called to clear protesting students from the campus.
"They were building it in Morningside Park, one of the few green spaces in Harlem," former Columbia student and current SUNY law professor Eleanor Stein."And we felt that it couldn't be business as usual, that the university itself was engaging in an indefensible takeover of Harlem land and an indefensible participation and complicity with the Vietnam War effort."
"I have determined that the encampment and related disruptions pose a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the University," Shafik"All University students participating in the encampment have been informed they are suspended. At this time, the participants in the encampment are not authorized to be on University property and are trespassing," Shafik said."With great regret, we request the NYPD's help to remove these individuals.
The morning after students occupied Hamilton Hall, Black students aligned with SAS asked white students led by the SDS to leave."SAS leaders later explained that the spontaneous, participatory, and less-defined politics of SDS-led white students interfered" with the Black students' goals that centered on racial justice and equity,
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