Where Are the Vicious Vandals of Yesteryear?
Contributor(s)
William M. Fleischman
Session
(Meta Topic) Dreaming and Design
Abstract
On March 15, 1970, a group of 45 professors on the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY/Buffalo) – ad hoc activists – held a sit-in in the Hayes Hall offices of the President of the University. The objective of the sit-in was to convince the acting president to reverse his action bringing City of Buffalo police onto campus to control student demonstrations opposing the Vietnam War. Although they failed in this objective, their arrest helped educate them on the measures of surveillance, control and intimidation available to governmental and institutional authorities to discourage conscience-driven activism in support of their students.