Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hyman's plan, which would leave the administration menial tasks, is not likely to be well received by the faculty. Several hundred faculty members appear willing to see Kirk leave, but many express their faith in David B. Truman, university vice-president and Kirk's heir apparent...
...resignation of President Grayson Kirk and Vice President David Truman...
Perhaps Kirk did not expect such a gory display, and it is assumed he is not happy about it. But he should have realized that a middle-of-the-night invasion by police who tend to react quickly to student resistance could easily explode. David B. Truman, university vice-president, had conceded that the buildings could not be retaken "without some roughing up." Kirk and Truman's miscalculation has so discredited the administration on the campus that by 11 p.m. last night, 8500 students had signed a petition asking for Kirk's ouster...
...Kirk, or Truman, or anyone high in the Columbia administration had had the respect of the students, he could have personally spoken to the demonstrators--much as Dean Glimp spoke to protestors at Mallinckrodt last October--and perhaps achieved a bloodless settlement. The sad fact, however, is that the president of Columbia cannot communicate with his students at all, and was reduced to a surprise show of force. The bloodstains are testimony to Kirk's failure to function as a president...
...accomplishments of the Columbia protest might not have been possible without the conspicuous seizure of an administration building, the demonstration gradually has disintegrated into a piece of civil disobedience in bad faith. When the protestors refused at first to talk with the Columbia Administration's spokesman David B. Truman, they opened themselves to charges of "protest for protest's sake." Since illegal demonstrations are intentionally public acts, how they look is not inconsequential...