NOTES
STEPHEN DONADIO teaches Eng–
lish at Columbia . ... ALAN FRIED–
MAN is writing a novel. Mr. Fried–
man teaches English at Swarth–
more.... MICHAEL THELWELL
describes himself as a lapsed New
Leftist.... ROBERT COLES is a
psychiatrist at Harvard.... MAR·
TIN DUBERMAN's Metaphors is
currently being performed at the
Actors' Playhouse,. He is working on
a longer play tentatively titled
Groups. . . . THOMAS R. ED.
WARDS describes himself as "a
middle-aged soul formed by the
literary culture 'Of the twenties and
thirties but anxious to feel up to
date." He teaches at Rutgers and
has written a book on Pope. . . .
TONY TANNER is currently teach–
ing at Emory.... Macmillan pub–
lished MICHAEL HARRINGTON's
Toword
0
Dem.ocratic Left in April.
. . . JOHN GOODE is currently
writing on D. H. Lawrence. He
teaches at the University of Read–
ing, England. . . . G. S. FRASER
tells us that he made a tour of Belgi–
an universities for the British Council
a month or so before the big Belgian
sit-ins started. His latest book is a
critical study of Lawrence Dur–
rell. ... ROBERT JAY LIFTON is
the author of books on brainwash–
ing in China and survivors of Hiro–
shima.... JULIAN MOYNAHAN
was in London during 1967-67. He
is at work on his third novel, A
Dog's Life.
THE INTERVIEWS: Because press
coverage has in general been in–
adequate and misleading, at least
a bare outline of recent everts at
Columbia seems in order by way of
introduction to the interviews ap–
pearing in this issue: Tues. April 23.
SDS members, planning march on
Low Library to protest penalties
against 6 radical student leaders,
meet with black students at noon
Sundial rally. After unsuccessful at–
tempt to enter Low, crowd marches
to new CU gym site in Morningside
Park, tears down part of fence
around construction area. Crowd
regathers briefly at Sundial. then
moves into Hamilton 'Hall, chanting
"IDA must go." Wed. April 24.
5 a.m. Black students in Hamilton
ask white students to le'ave. These
200-300 white students charge Low,
break into President Kirk's private
offices and barricade themselves in.
10
p.m. Architecture students refuse
to leave Avery and gradually seize
the building. Thurs. April
25.
Group
composed mainly of graduate stu–
dents enters Fayerweather, barri–
cades the doors. Ad Hoc Faculty
Group founded, pledges to prevent
anyone from entering occupied
buildings forcibly.
10·11
p.m. Group
members stop threatened rush on
Fayerweather by counterdemonstra–
+ors. Fri. April 26. I a.m. Mathe–
matics Bldg. taken by demonstrators
from Low.
1:05
o.m. Vice-Pres. Tru–
man tells Ad Hoc Group police
have been called.
3:15
a.m.. Plain–
clothesmen charge faculty members
guarding Low. Tues. April
30.2
a.m.
First bust. 1000 uniformed pol ice,
plainclothesmen, TPF move onto
campus to clear buildings. May
21-
22. Hamil+on re-occupied as protest
against Administration's disciplinary
procedures. Second compus bust.
