Two student leaders on Monday announced a new national campaign in which college students would encourage their peers to stop abusing alcohol. At the same time, a coalition of college groups released a set of recommendations on how campuses can combat binge drinking. Last week, a faculty member at the University of Maryland at College Park reported being threatened with a gun by a student who wanted an A in one of the professor's mathematics classes. Mr. Postel, who was 55, died of complications from heart surgery. The legacy of the student protests of 1968 A series of articles by scholars and journalists examines the political and social turmoil of 1968 and how the unrest was covered in the press.
Several articles focus on the student protests of that year.
Barbie Zelizer, an associate professor of communications at the University of Pennsylvania, analyzes how a widely distributed photograph taken during the Columbia protests, of the student David Shapiro posing with a cigar in the office of Grayson Kirk, then the university's president, came to symbolize the defiance of the time.