The 1968 student uprising left its imprint on many of those involved – a new generation may be poised to take on injustice
A remarkable time in America: young people mowed down in the prime of life, erratic foreign policy eroding the country’s stability, endless military engagement abroad, growing civil discord at home, as a crude and insensitive president calls for law and order amid questions about his ability to lead. Enraged and terrified by the mayhem that’s killing their peers, students mobilize to address a crisis that their elders have utterly failed to deal with. It was 1968.
The thirtieth of April marks the 50th anniversary of the violent end of the student uprising at Columbia University, events I helped to report (and foment) as an undergraduate editor of the student paper, the Columbia Daily Spectator. That day, at 2.30am hundreds of New York City police took over the campus to eject the students who were occupying five university buildings.
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