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The most remarkable aspect of this confrontation between 
suspicious students and a less than candid or 
ill-informed dean, is that Columbia’s
connection with IDA was a public arrangement, 
the conditions of which were available to anyone 
who was curious enough to ask for IDA’s
unclassified reports. With one or two exceptions,
however, Columbia’s large contingent of pro-McCarthy, 
anti-Vietnamese War liberals (not to
mention the politically apathetic center that makes 
up the majority of the faculty) remained ignorant 
of the university’s tie with IDA or failed to
grasp its significance. In this instance at least, 
the student activists carried
out a genuine educational task on a matter of 
paramount importance to
the entire university community. 
They did indeed educate their professors,
however unorthodox their teaching methods.

http://www.publicanthropology.org/TimesPast/Harris.htm






> "Like the generation that spawned it, the Movement was complex
> yet elemental, cooperative yet individualistic. In terms of
> politics, it included moderates, liberals, radicals and, on the
> far fringe, anarchists. Ideologically, to borrow from
> Talleyrand's dictum, some saw the war as an avoidable blunder
> of a reformable system, while others saw it as an unavoidable
> crime of a system in need of being overthrown. Goals ranged
> from a negotiated peace to a victory for the NLF that would
> cripple the neo-imperialist beast. Most concretely, though,
> what people actually did was vote, march, sit in, or trash. . . ."