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United students
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10,000 students vote in affirmation of the Afro-American Society’s demands for nullification during a mass gathering in Barton Hall on April 22. (Photo Credit: Robert W. Bollenbach / Sun Staff)
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Angry faces
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A large metal ash tray is hurled out a window of the Straight after the black students inside ejected a dozen white students, primarily members of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, who had entered the building. (Photo Credit: Richard A Shulman / Sun File Photo)
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The march
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Whitfield and protesters finally leave the Straight, guns in hand, on their way to receive the signatures of Muller and Kennedy. (Photo Credit: N. Eric Weiss / Sun File Photo)
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Peace talks
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Perkins meets with Whitfield and other student leaders to resolve the crisis.
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Takeover Debate Leaves Prof. Rossiter ’39 Ostracized
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“Here was a man who truly loved Cornell: who gave to an institution far more than he received in return; whose entire life was committed to the spirit and values of the educational mission embodied by this University. There can be no doubt that his imprint will endure. Yet bereft of his presence, Cornell can never be the same.”
– From the official faculty obituary of Professor Clinton Rossiter ’39
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Armed exit
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Thomas Jones ’69 emerges armed from the Straight. (Photo Credit: Brian W. Gray / Sun File Photo)
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On the outside
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Protesters gather outside of Barton Hall to urge the faculty to reject the administration’s negotiated compromise with the Afro-American Society. (Photo Credit: Larry Baum / Sun File Photo)
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Police Avoid Confrontation as Tension Builds
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Matthew F. McHugh was serving as Tompkins County district attorney at the time of the Straight Takeover. He played a key role in helping to guide the response to the situation on campus from downtown authorities, in consultation with University officials. Subsequently, McHugh oversaw a grand jury investigation of the takeover, which led to misdemeanor convictions against several of the black students involved.
After serving as county district attorney from 1969 to 1972, McHugh was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974 and served nine terms until January 1993. McHugh was interviewed on March 31 by Barton Reppert ’70, managing editor of The Sun at the time of the April 1969 campus unrest.
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To the masses
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Thomas Jones ’69 addresses over 10,000 people in Barton Hall on April 22, 1969. (Photo Credit: Richard A Shulman/ Sun File Photo)
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Piercing cries of the bullhorn
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David Burak ’69 yells to a crowd through a bullhorn on Ho Plaza while black students occupied the Straight. Among the crowd were many SDS members. (Photo Credit: Richard A. Shulman / Sun File Photo)