The Cornell Daily Sun hosted a panel in Ithaca last weekend to reflect on the events of April 1969. The panel included Zach Carter ’72, who participated in the Straight takeover; Robert Gottlieb ’72, who witnessed it and was one of the first students on the Board of Trustees; former English Professor Dan McCall, who taught the first Black literature class at Cornell; David Burak ’67, who was a grad student and president of the Students for a Democratic Society; and Professor Robert Harris, Africana studies, former vice provost for diversity. The panel was chaired by Ed Zuckerman ’70 and Stan Chess ’69, former Sun editors in chief, who questioned the panelists.
The discussion revealed that even forty years after the fact, the events of that spring are still contentious. The Sun's report on the panel, "Straight Takeover Still Ignites Heated Debate," is at this link.
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