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1970-05-16 Newsletter: MEASURE: Emergency Supplements No. 3 Page 1

MEASURE
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTS NO. 3
16 may 1970 
Published by UNIVERSITY CENTERS FOR RATIONAL ALTERNATIVES
press time: 9:30 AM
11 W. 40 St., New York, N. Y. 10018
Est. mailing time: 6:00 PM
Telephone: (212) 524-2018
KUNTSLER is to be the commencement
 speaker at Brooklyn College.
These MEASURE Emergency Supplements
 state their press times because things
 true at one moment may no longer be
 true at a later moment, and the edi-
tors are determined to maintain an hon-
est relation with the facts of the uni-
versity crisis. Thus, Supplement No.
1 asserted that durig the night of
May 8-9, the security guards at colum-
bia University were "all locked up,
for their own protection, in Low Lib-
rary." So they were at the time. But
now word comes to us from Columbia
that the security guards have come out 
of their shelter and are attempting to
insure the safe passage of human be-
ings through other buildings of the
campus and across the grounds.
 We also asserted that the only stu-
dent organizations which just then
were being permitted to use university
telephones,duplicating equipment, of-
fice space, etc., were "Third World
and totalitarion groups.: We are now
informed that we were wrong; that faci-
lities were all along being used by
"peace" groups as well, in Ferris
Booth Hall.
 Meanwhile, the statue of Alma Mater
in front of Low Library - an unoffend-
ing lady who has recently survived 
such indignities as being painted Red
 - has now survived the effort of the
person or persons who two mornings ago
set a bomb beside her right hip. She
has a broken hip, but remains securely
seated as before, presiding over colum-
bia in what seems a state of calm.

Antioch College, in Ohio, has a "non-
structured" curriculum. Its students 
have no been granted more than 50%
 representation in decision-making com-
mittees and similar campus bodies.
They are continuing to strike, have
padlocked a lab, are trying to force
an official shutdown, and are deman-
ing both official opposition by the
College to the American action in Cam-
bodia and $150,000 for the Panthers.

Rumors persist at SUNY-Buffalo that
the 12 persons who suffered gunshot
wounds on that campus ten days ago
between Right and Left-Wing extremists,
both sides of being armed.

There were three words in supplement
No.1 so extraordinary that we could
hardly believe them ourselves when we
typed them and pasted them up for
printing: "Harvard has dissolved...."
But now a latter which has appeared in the 
New York Times which not only confirms
the dissolution but tells in some de-
tail how it came about. We lift and
print the letter in full, persuaded
that it should be known to everyone  in
the academic community, not just to
readers of that particular newspaper.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, MAY 14, 1970

To the Editor:
 The vote of the Harvard faculty on
May 6 meant, for some of Harvard's stu-
dents, the culmination of a process of
disillusionment with the university
which has been going on for some time,
The vote which allows students to
choose not to complete their academic
year to receive credit for their
courses, marks a complete abandonment
 of academic standards by a university
facility previously considered among
 the world's greatest.
As bad as what the faculty did was
the way in which they did it. The fac-
ulty meeting was hastily called, the

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MEASURE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTS NO. 3 16 may 1970 Published by UNIVERSITY CENTERS FOR RATIONAL ALTERNATIVES press time: 9:30 AM 11 W. 40 St., New York, N. Y. 10018 Est. mailing time: 6:00 PM Telephone: (212) 524-2018 KUNTSLER is to be the commencement speaker at Brooklyn College. These MEASURE Emergency Supplements state their press times because things true at one moment may no longer be true at a later moment, and the edi- tors are determined to maintain an hon- est relation with the facts of the uni- versity crisis. Thus, Supplement No. 1 asserted that durig the night of May 8-9, the security guards at colum- bia University were "all locked up, for their own protection, in Low Lib- rary." So they were at the time. But now word comes to us from Columbia that the security guards have come out of their shelter and are attempting to insure the safe passage of human be- ings through other buildings of the campus and across the grounds. We also asserted that the only stu- dent organizations which just then were being permitted to use university telephones,duplicating equipment, of- fice space, etc., were "Third World and totalitarion groups.: We are now informed that we were wrong; that faci- lities were all along being used by "peace" groups as well, in Ferris Booth Hall. Meanwhile, the statue of Alma Mater in front of Low Library - an unoffend- ing lady who has recently survived such indignities as being painted Red - has now survived the effort of the person or persons who two mornings ago set a bomb beside her right hip. She has a broken hip, but remains securely seated as before, presiding over colum- bia in what seems a state of calm. Antioch College, in Ohio, has a "non- structured" curriculum. Its students have no been granted more than 50% representation in decision-making com- mittees and similar campus bodies. They are continuing to strike, have padlocked a lab, are trying to force an official shutdown, and are deman- ing both official opposition by the College to the American action in Cam- bodia and $150,000 for the Panthers. Rumors persist at SUNY-Buffalo that the 12 persons who suffered gunshot wounds on that campus ten days ago between Right and Left-Wing extremists, both sides of being armed. There were three words in supplement No.1 so extraordinary that we could hardly believe them ourselves when we typed them and pasted them up for printing: "Harvard has dissolved...." But now a latter which has appeared in the New York Times which not only confirms the dissolution but tells in some de- tail how it came about. We lift and print the letter in full, persuaded that it should be known to everyone in the academic community, not just to readers of that particular newspaper. FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, MAY 14, 1970 To the Editor: The vote of the Harvard faculty on May 6 meant, for some of Harvard's stu- dents, the culmination of a process of disillusionment with the university which has been going on for some time, The vote which allows students to choose not to complete their academic year to receive credit for their courses, marks a complete abandonment of academic standards by a university facility previously considered among the world's greatest. As bad as what the faculty did was the way in which they did it. The fac- ulty meeting was hastily called, the