http://www.columbia1968.com History of the 1968 Student Strike at Columbia University, New York City Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:35:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After graduating in 1969 I married my high school sweetheart and spent a year teaching English to upstate New York farm kids while my wife finished her degree. I was someone from Mars to them – they’d never heard anyone speak of class war, racism, or imperialism. Contemplating an ... http://www.columbia1968.com/irastollak/ Two months after the strike, Bonnie and I got married. I had a year of law school left. Bonnie had 2 years to go at Barnard. Bonnie went to the SDS convention that summer. I worked for the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee doing what law students inevitably do for honchos ... http://www.columbia1968.com/barry-willdorf/ After Columbia, I stayed in New York City for another two or three years, knocking around in various jobs. I ended up marrying Margaret Dale Wright, and after our first child was born we moved to Vermont, where we set up housekeeping, had three more kids, and integrated ourselves into ... http://www.columbia1968.com/tom-ehrenberg/ I have been impressed while reading about others’ lives at the good efforts at social justice so many have made since ‘68. As part of our common legacy, I want to share a little about my own sporadic efforts since my arrest in April ‘68 to remain faithful to ... http://www.columbia1968.com/dan-leighton/ Columbia strikers would remember me as Morris Grossner, as I used my stepfather’s surname through my Columbia days. I was one of the 6 students threatened with disciplinary action, leading to the 1968 Columbia rebellion. I recently learned from the Columbia 68 Homepage that the administration had informed the draft ... http://www.columbia1968.com/morrisgrossner/ In January, when we first received word of next week’s reunion, my wife Jan Howell Marx and I agreed to go. The topics and speakers promised a pooling of wisdom about how to relate to a world which had become worse than the one we confronted head on in 1968. ... http://www.columbia1968.com/stevenmarx/ Deirdre and I got married in May of 1971 in St Paul’s Chapel. Deirdre had graduated from Barnard in 1970 and taken some graduate courses the following year. After our marriage we moved to Washington, DC. I had never finished my graduate work after 1968 and I was ... http://www.columbia1968.com/mikegolash/ I guess I’ve always felt myself to be an outsider, so, in true spirit, my relationships to the political scene at Columbia, and anywhere in fact, before and afterward, have been from the outside, and from the personal. For years, I felt like an observer in my own life, that ... http://www.columbia1968.com/jane-kinzler/ The notion of summing up my life during the past four decades to a group of virtual strangers has been daunting. First, I had to get past “do I even want to do this”? And then, if so, what to say, when to make time to write? Reading ... http://www.columbia1968.com/nancy-biberman/ I’ve been in a reflective mood because of the book I’m working on about older people of mixed race, so that probably comes through in this story. I ended up writing more than I expected to about my history before Columbia, and then it was getting too long, so ... http://www.columbia1968.com/cathy-tashiro/