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College students -- Political activity.

 Subject
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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

1960s political materials

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093383259]
Identifier: 37-5-3502
Scope and content

Miscellaneous SDS pamphlets, 1968-1970; May 1970 Strike items; Strike Newsletter, vol. 1, nos. 1-9; clippings, manuscript and other materials relating to the Cornell Canvass for Peace committee, 1970; and Indochina War Information Packets, prepared by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars for the Faculty Anti-War Group at Cornell, used in lobbying efforts.

Dates: 1968-1970.

Alan Berkowitz political memorabilia

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3727
Scope and content

Political campaign buttons, anti-Vietnam-War buttons, and other topical buttons from the 1960s.



Dates: [ca.1965-1975]

America is Hard to Find weekend miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-7-m.883
Scope and content

Clippings and broadsides for the weekend's events, April 17-19, 1970. Includes a poster for the event signed to "Geoff" by Peter Kahn.

Dates: 1970.

Art Spitzer papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088354497]
Identifier: 37-5-3283
Scope and content Reports and publications about the events of 1969 at Cornell. Includes memos on the Afro-American Studies Program, 1968; minutes of the University Faculty meeting, April 10, 1969; copies of the report of the President's Commission on Student Involvement in Decision-Making (Morison report), May, 1969, and comment by Ian Macneil; Report of the Cornell Constituent Assembly Summer Research Group on the Regulation of Conduct, Aug. 1969; drafts of the Regulation of Conduct Research Report; SDS...
Dates: 1968-1970.

Berrigan weekend oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-613
Scope and content Interviews with Cornell administrators about the planning for the weekend were conducted by Robert Kaplan with Stuart M. Brown, Jr., Vice President for Academic Affairs on April 15, 1970 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Mark Barlow, Jr., Vice President for Student Affairs, on April 15, 1970 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Jackson O. Hall, Assistant to the President, on April 14, 1970 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Alfred E. Kahn, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, on April 15, 1970; and Steven Muller, Vice...
Dates: 1970.

Challenge to Governance oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1285
Abstract

Over 100 interviews with students, faculty, staff, and administrators on subjects including the Vietnam War and the peace movement; the rights of women and minorities, especially blacks' rights and the Willard Straight Hall occupation; efforts to change the governing system at Cornell; and related issues. Most of the interviews have been transcribed.

Dates: 1969-1971.

Challenge to Governance Project records

 Collection — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924093390437]
Identifier: 47-5-1309
Abstract

Correspondence, transcripts of interviews, minutes, statements, broadsides, photographs, clippings, and other materials pertaining to civil rights activism and the work of various groups at Cornell to alter the institution's governing structure.

Dates: 1969-1970.

Cornell Radical Research Collective miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 25 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065304598]
Identifier: 37-7-m.1016
Scope and content

Includes a letter from the Collective to Gould Colman asking for financial support, and enclosures sent with the letter: four page abstract of the project and the Collective's radical analysis of Cornell; bibliography; tentative budget; article from CALSPAN NEWS regarding Cornell's control of CALSPAN, formerly the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc.; and a WALL STREET JOURNAL editorial praising the decrease in militancy on campuses as reflected in the changing attitudes at Cornell.

Dates: 1976.

Cornell University. Presidents Commission on Student Involvement in Decision Making records

 Collection
Identifier: 3-10-1284
Abstract

Collection includes membership lists, invoices, budgets, tape recordings, memoranda, bibliographies, printed material, correspondence, drafts, and reports concerning the President's Commission, also known as the Morison Commission. Records primarily relate to student activism and involvement in university governance.

Dates: 1968-1969.

Don Barr papers

 Collection
Identifier: 23-24-3670
Abstract

Includes course material, publications, correspondence, and seminar material pertaining to Barr's career in the College of Human Ecology and his work on multicultural education and social injustices.

Dates: 1975-2003.