Challenge to Governance Project records, 1969-1970.
Collection Number: 47-5-1309
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Challenge to Governance Project records, 1969-1970.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
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.
Creator:
Cornell University. Libraries. Challenge to Governance Project
Quanitities:
5.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
The Cornell University Libraries, represented by the Program in Oral History and the
University Archives, collected primary source materials and conducted interviews concerning
changes in the governance of the university due to campus activism during the late
1960s. The project was coordinated by University Archivist Herbert Finch and Cornell
Program in Oral History Director Gould P. Colman.
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.
This collection includes incoming correspondence and clippings from alumni to President
Perkins and Vice President Steven Muller; notes, clippings, and statements from various
Cornell departments and interest groups; files of the Mass Media Committee, the Barton
Hall Commission, the Constituent Assembly, the June (1969) issue of the CORNELL ALUMNI
NEWS, and the WHCU News Department; a geographically arranged file of newspaper clippings
from the United States, France, and England; circulars and broadsides; copies of papers
by students and faculty members regarding their impressions of campus events; a file
of all news releases issued by the university pertaining to the events on campus;
and letters, reports, and photographs relating to the occupation of Willard Straight
Hall. Subjects include the Vietnam War and the peace movement; the rights of women
and minorities, especially blacks' rights and the militant takeover of Willard Straight;
efforts to change the governing system at Cornell; and related issues.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Challenge to Governance Project records, #47-5-1309. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Muller, Steven.
Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998.
Cornell University. Constituent Assembly
Cornell University. Mass Media Committee
Cornell University -- : Administration.
Cornell University -- : Public relations.
Cornell University -- : Students.
WHCU (Radio Station : Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Women's rights.
Women college students.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements.
Student movements.
College student government.
College Students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
College Students -- Political activity.
African Americans -- Education.
African American student movements.
Willard Straight Hall takeover, 1969.
Form and Genre Terms:
Videotapes.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Academic Freedom
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Active Opposition
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Alumni Affairs
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Anthropology Dept.
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Articles - Misc.
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Barton Hall Agenda & Statements (Personal & News Releases)
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Barton Hall - Drafting Committee
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Barton Hall - General Statements
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Barton Hall - Proposals on Academic Freedom
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Barton Hall - Proposals for a Constituent Assembly (Including Restructuring Committee)
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Barton Hall - Proposals for Classes and Grading, Spring 1969
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Barton Hall - Proposals and Motions on Racism
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Barton Hall - Steering Committee
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Black Liberation Front - ABS
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Broadsides, Leaflets, and Handouts
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Broadsides, Leaflets, and Handouts
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Broadsides, Leaflets, and Handouts
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Broadsides, Leaflets, and Handouts
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Broadsides, Leaflets, and Handouts
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Broadsides, Leaflets, and Handouts
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Clippings - Boston Globe News
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Clippings - Canada
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Clippings - Chicago Tribune & Chicago Daily News
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Clippings - Christian Science Monitor
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Clippings - Daily News - NY
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Clippings - Detroit Free Press
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Clippings - Detroit News
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Clippings - Florida
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Clippings - Hartford
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Clippings - Ithaca Journal
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Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Clippings - Ithaca Journal
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Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Clippings - Ithaca Journal
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Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Clippings - Ithaca Journal
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Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Clippings - Massachusetts
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Clippings - Michigan
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Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Clippings - Misc
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Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Clippings - Misc
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Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Clippings - Misc
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Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Clippings - Misc
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Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Clippings - Missouri
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Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Clippings - New Jersey
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Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Clippings - New York Misc
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Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Clippings - New York Post
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Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Clippings - New York Times
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Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Clippings - New York Times
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Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Clippings - New York Times
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Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Clippings - New York Times
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Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Clippings - New York Times
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Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Clippings - New York Times
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Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Clippings - Newsday
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Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Clippings - Ohio
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Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Clippings - Pennsylvania
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Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Clippings - Rochester Democrat Chronicle
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Box 1 | Folder 54 |
Clippings - Syracuse Herald Journal & Post Standard
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Box 1 | Folder 55 |
Clippings - Tennessee
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Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Clippings - Texas
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Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Clippings - Washington Post
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Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Clippings - Wisconsin
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Box 1 | Folder 59 |
College of Agriculture
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Box 1 | Folder 60 |
College of Arts & Sciences
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Box 1 | Folder 61 |
College of Engineering & Related Fields
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Box 1 | Folder 62 |
Committee of Concerned Faculty
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Box 1 | Folder 63 |
Committee on Mass Media
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Box 1 | Folder 64 |
Constituent Assembly Research Group #3 - Military Establishment & Business Community
Relations
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Box 1 | Folder 65 |
Cornell Crisis - Memoirs
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Box 1 | Folder 66 |
Cornell Daily Sun & Other CU Materials
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Box 1 | Folder 67 |
Cornell University Faculty
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Box 1 | Folder 68 |
Cornell Graduate Students
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Box 1 | Folder 69 |
CU Faculty Drafting Committee
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Box 1 | Folder 70 |
CU Office of Public Information - General
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Box 1 | Folder 71 |
Departmental and Other Responses to Requests for Information
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Box 1 | Folder 72 |
Dept. Actions - Computer Science
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Box 1 | Folder 73 |
Dept. of Architecture
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Box 1 | Folder 74 |
Dept. of City & Regional Planning
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Box 1 | Folder 75 |
Dept. of Education (Including Science Education)
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Box 1 | Folder 76 |
Dept. of Rural Sociology
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Box 1 | Folder 77 |
Dept. of Rural Sociology, School of Ag.
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Box 1 | Folder 78 |
Economics Dept.
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Box 1 | Folder 79 |
Elmira Star Gazette
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Box 1 | Folder 80 |
Faculty and Student Polling Group
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Box 1 | Folder 81 |
Faculty Council
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Box 1 | Folder 82 |
Fraternity and IFC
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Box 1 | Folder 83 |
Government Dept.
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Box 1 | Folder 84 |
Graduate Coordinating Council
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Box 1 | Folder 85 |
Guns on Campus & Gun Legislation
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Box 1 | Folder 86 |
Individual Student Reactions
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Box 1 | Folder 87 |
Ithaca Community
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Box 1 | Folder 88 |
Judicial Proceedings
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Box 1 | Folder 89 |
Letters Advancing True Chronology of Events at CU
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Box 1 | Folder 90 |
Letters Advancing True Chronology of Events at CU
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Box 1 | Folder 91 |
NYS College of Home Economics
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Box 1 | Folder 92 |
NYS School of Agriculture - Student, Faculty, & Administration Statements
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Box 1 | Folder 93 |
NYS School of Home Economics
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Box 1 | Folder 94 |
NYS School of Industrial and Labor Relations
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Box 1 | Folder 95 |
Office of Public Information - General
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Box 1 | Folder 96 |
Papers
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Box 1 | Folder 97 |
Periodicals - Misc.
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Box 1 | Folder 98 |
Personal Letters
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Box 1 | Folder 99 |
Physics Dept.
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Box 1 | Folder 100 |
President Perkin's Statements
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Box 1 | Folder 101 |
Psychology Dept.
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Box 1 | Folder 102 |
Psychology Dept.
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Box 1 | Folder 103 |
Report of Presidential Commission on Military Training
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Box 1 | Folder 104 |
School of Arts & Sciences
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Box 1 | Folder 105 |
School of Engineering
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Box 1 | Folder 106 |
School of Hotel Administration
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Box 1 | Folder 107 |
Sociology Dept.
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Box 1 | Folder 108 |
Statement - Cornell's Board of Trustees
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Box 1 | Folder 109 |
Students for a Democratic Alternative
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Box 1 | Folder 110 |
Task Force on Open Admissions
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Box 1 | Folder 111 |
University Research Committee
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Box 1 | Folder 112 |
Veterinary College
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
ABC
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Afro-American Society Handouts
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Alternatives for Constructive Tactics
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Barton Hall - Drafting Committee
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Binder - Agriculture
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Binder - Architecture
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Binder - Arts and Sciences
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Binder - Biology
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Binder - Business and Public Administration
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Binder - Engineering
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Binder - Faculty
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Binder - Grad. Students
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Binder - Home Economics
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Binder - Hotel Administration
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Binder - ILR
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Binder - Law School
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Binder - Military Sciences, Graduate School of Nutrition, University Health Services
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Binder - Special Interest Groups
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Binder - Undergraduates
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Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Binder - University Wide Information
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Binder - Vet School
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Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Board of Trustees
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Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Challenges to Governance Project
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Challenges to Governance Project
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Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Challenges to Governance Project - Project information and Chronology
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Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Chronology
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Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Clippings - Cortland Standard
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Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Clippings - Pittsburgh Press
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Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Constituent Assembly
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Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Constituent Assembly - Delegate and Research Groups and Rosters
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Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Constituent Assembly - Elections
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Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Constituent Assembly - Executive Committee
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Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Constituent Assembly - Executive Committee Minutes
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Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Constituent Assembly - Interim Steering Committee
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Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Constituent Assembly - Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Constituent Assembly - Newsletter
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Box 2 | Folder 37 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group Black Studies
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Box 2 | Folder 38 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group #2 Racism and Minority Groups
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Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group #4 University Code and Adjudicatory System
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Box 2 | Folder 40 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group #5 Academic Freedom
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Box 2 | Folder 41 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group #6 The University and the Disadvantaged
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Box 2 | Folder 42 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group #7 Crisis and Change in Governance
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Box 2 | Folder 43 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group #8 - Academic Matters
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Box 2 | Folder 44 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group #9 Financial Resources
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Box 2 | Folder 45 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group #10 - Social, Cultural, Aesthetic and Biological
Life
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Box 2 | Folder 46 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Group #11 The Mission of the University
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Box 2 | Folder 47 |
Constituent Assembly - Research Groups and Reports
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Box 2 | Folder 48 |
Cornell Alumni Committee for Balanced Education
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Box 2 | Folder 49 |
Evans - Novak Article Controversy
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Box 2 | Folder 50 |
Handouts - Misc. Interest Groups
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Box 2 | Folder 51 |
History of the Constituent Assembly
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Box 2 | Folder 52 |
Interim Steering Committee - Lee H. Veneklassen Notes
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Box 2 | Folder 53 |
Organization of Cornell Planners
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Box 2 | Folder 54 |
Paper - Archivists and Activists by Herb Finch
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Box 2 | Folder 55 |
Periodicals - CU Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 56 |
Periodicals - Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 57 |
Periodicals - New Left
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Box 2 | Folder 58 |
Post-Crisis
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Box 2 | Folder 59 |
Rumor Clinic Calls
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Box 2 | Folder 60 |
Statements by Individuals
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Box 2 | Folder 61 |
Student Letters and Papers
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Box 2 | Folder 62 |
Student Letters and Papers
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Box 2 | Folder 63 |
Students for Democratic Alternative
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Box 2 | Folder 64 |
Task Force on African-American Studies
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Box 2 | Folder 65 |
The Pink Elephant - Cornell Young Republicans
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Box 2 | Folder 66 |
Alumni Reunion Forum Panel - Transcripts
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Box 2 | Folder 67 |
Alum Interviews - Transcripts
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Box 2 | Folder 68 |
News Conference - Transcripts
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Box 2 | Folder 69 |
News Conference - Transcripts
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Box 2 | Folder 70 |
James Turner Speech at Constituent Assembly - Transcripts
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Box 2 | Folder 71 |
Challenges to Governance Project
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Box 2 | Folder 72 |
Challenges to Governance Project
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Box 2 | Folder 73 |
Challenges to Governance Project
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Box 2 | Folder 74 |
Handouts - Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 75 |
Handouts - Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 76 |
Committee of Concerned Faculty
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Box 2 | Folder 77 |
Handouts - Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 78 |
Cornell Public Affairs Intern Program
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Box 2 | Folder 79 |
Handouts - Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 80 |
Handouts - Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 81 |
Handouts - Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 82 |
Handouts - Misc.
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Box 2 | Folder 83 |
Financing the Black University by Robert S. Browne
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Cornell University News Releases
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
News Releases and Statements - Misc.
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Cornell University - News Releases, WHCU News Reports
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Campus Unrest at Cornell - Report of the Special Trustee Committee
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Cornell University Survey Conducted for the Special Trustee Committee
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Urban Education Before the Fall, Stanley F. Wanat & Michael R. Cohen
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Cornell in Crisis- A Documentary Analysis, Novick, Schatz and Rahe
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Summer Research Reports Cornell Constituent Assembly
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