description: Dr Avorn was born 2/13/48 in NYC &amp; grew up in Rockaway, Queens. While attending Columbia during the tumultuous opposition to the Vietnam War &amp; American civil rights movement, he distinguished himself as a leading activist against the Vietnam War with his investigative journalism for the Columbia Daily Spectator. In the summer of '69, he wrote Up Against the Ivy Wall with fellow Spectator journalists about the Columbia campus uprisings.PrefaceIntroductionPrologueThe academic guerrillasHoram expecta venietThe second frontEnter Alan WestinDick Greeman's bloody noseThe liberated lifeBullshitA bitter pillAmnesty or bustAll necessary precautions...Exit Alan WestinAmorphatoriumDeja vuAppendix 1: Reflections on student radicalism/ Herbert A. DeaneAppendix 2: Symbols of the revolution/ Mark RuddChronologyCast of CharactersIndex
language: English
title: University in Revolt: A History of the Columbia Crisis
titlecomplete: University in Revolt: A History of the Columbia Crisis
genres: New York, Education, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 6
places: New York (State)
publisher: Macdonald & Co. (London)