Finding Aid for the Campus Unrest: Research conducted by
Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan, Social Psychology Department,
1967-1972, 1975
3/5/897
University Archives
State University of New York at
Buffalo
2005
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Students strike by roasting a pig in effigy of the police on campus, 1970
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Collection Overview
| Title: |
Campus Unrest: Research conducted by Dean G.
Pruitt and James Gahagan, Social Psychology Department,
1967-1972, 1975
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| Collection number: |
3/5/897 |
| Creator: |
Pruitt, Dean G.
Gahagan, James.
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| Extent: |
8 manuscript boxes (3.3 linear feet) |
| Repository: |
University Archives (State University of New York at
Buffalo)
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| Abstract: |
Interviews, chronologies and surveys collected
by social psychologists, Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan pertaining to the
events on the South campus of the State University of New York at Buffalo
mainly from February to April 1970.
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Processing Information
Encoded by: Daniel Pitti,
March 2005
Processed by: Jessica Tanny, December
2004
Terms of Access and Use
The Campus Unrest: Research conducted by
Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan, Social Psychology Department,
1967-1972, 1975 is open for research.
Copyright
Copyright is held by the State University of New York at Buffalo,
University Archives. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by
their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the
written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives
before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may
be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise
specified.
Acquisition Information
The collection was originally deposited in March 21, 2001 as
collection #01-001. Newspapers from the clipping series were integrated with
collection #03-728.
Historical Note
This archive contains a record of a research project that started in
1969 and ended in 1973. Its main product was an intensive case study of the
Buffalo Student Crisis in which the city police occupied the campus and 45
faculty members went to jail. The case study was directed by [Dean G. Pruitt]
and staffed by Dr. James Gahagan, a postdoctoral fellow with a deep knowledge
of the contemporary youth culture, and several graduate students in social
psychology. The research was housed in the Department of Psychology which was
then located on the Ridge Lea Campus.
[Pruitt's] main research interest was in social conflict, as was Dr.
Gahagan's. Hence, when he joined [Pruitt] in 1969, [they] decided to observe
the developing conflict between the university administration and the radical
students on the UB campus. [They] wrote extensive notes on the mini-crisis of
1969 and were ready, with a team of trained observers, when the major student
uprising hit the campus in February, 1970. [Their] intention was to write a
theoretical book based on [the UB case as well as five other campus unrest
cases], but this never materialized. All [they] published was a book chapter on
the UB case and a Spectrum article and two conference presentations on [their]
student surveys.
--From
"Archive of the UB Student Crisis of 1970" by Dean G.
Pruitt, March 21, 2001.
Container List
Series I. Prepared chronologies and writings
First there is a smooth sequential story of the events from first
to last, and then detailed chronologies of each day during the main part of the
crisis. Both were prepared by Pruitt and Gahagan. A chronology prepared by
Richard Siggelkow, Dean of Students in 1970, is also in this series.
| 1.1 |
Pruitt and Gahagan campus unrest writings,
1970, 1974, n.d.; includes "Campus Crisis:
The Search for Power" by Dean G. Pruitt and James P. Gahagan.
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| 1.2 |
"Theoretical Notes on the Campus Crisis,":
interpretation by Pruitt,
1971.
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| 1.3-1.4 |
"Theoretical Notes on the Campus Crisis,":
interpretation by Gahagan,
1971.
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| 1.5-1.6 |
Drafts for a chronology chapter,
1970; includes "Anatomy of a Disruption," by
Richard Siggelkow, Dean of Students.
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| 1.7-1.11 |
Extended chronology,
Feb - Mar 1970
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| 1.12-1.13 |
Extended chronology: draft,
1970
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| 2.1 |
Extended chronology: Pruitt's notes,
1970
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| 2.2-2.3 |
Chronology group discussion meetings,
1970; includes meeting of the Student Crisis
Research group,
1971.
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Series II. Gathered research.
Subseries A. First person narratives and
interviews
Includes the first person narratives and interviews Pruitt and
Gahagan conducted with assistance from Joe Maciejko, Steve Lewis, John A.
Saureman that were used to build the chronologies. Also includes Bruce Jackson
interview with Peter Regan.
| 2.4-2.8 |
Anonymous narratives of student strikers,
1970; includes University Survival
Group.
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| 2.9-2.12 |
Administration interviews,
1971; includes summary of Bruce Jackson
interview with Peter Regan, copy of campus police log book for
February 24, 1970.
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| 3.1-3.2 |
Faculty interviews,
1971
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| 3.3 |
Student interviews,
1971
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Subseries B. Incidents
Includes gathered information on some specific conflicts as well
as documentary materials about various aspects of the 1970 crisis and its
aftermath.
| 3.4-3.5 |
Dow Chemical Company controversy,
1967; includes handwritten notes, "A
Comparative Analysis of the Selective Service Protest of 1966 and the Dow
Controversy of 1967 Using Coleman's Theory of Community Conflict," student
paper,
1968.
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| 3.6 |
Buffalo Nine incident,
1969
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| 3.7 |
Medical School crisis,
Nov. 1969
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| 3.8-3.10 |
Student demonstrations,
Feb. 25, 1970: depositions (photocopies);
includes accounts of Terry Keegan's arrest.
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| 3.11 |
Student demonstrations,
Feb. 25, 1970: court summons
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| 3.12 |
Faculty 45,
March 15, 1970; includes 33 record, "Hayes
Hall Blues" by Vizzy Goth and his Vicious Vandals (faculty member Michael
Frisch) with typed lyrics.
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| 4.1-4.2 |
Birdshot incident,
May 7, 1970: affidavits (photocopies)
collected by University Advocate, Robert B. Fleming.
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| 4.3 |
Birdshot incident,
May 7, 1970: Concerned Law Students for
Peace; includes correspondence with Jacob Javits.
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| 4.4 |
Birdshot incident, May 7, 1970: photographs used in
The Spectrum special issue,
May 8, 1970 (vol. 20, no91)
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| 4.5-4.8 |
Allentown incident, June 14, 1970; includes first
person narratives, Frustration Politics and the Allentown Incident by Stephen
R. Chamberlain et. al.,
1971.
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| 4.9-4.10 |
Attica Support Group demonstrations,
April 1975
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Subseries C. Campus response
Includes faculty and student handouts.
| 4.11-4.12 |
Student handouts,
1970-1971
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| 4.13-4.15 |
Faculty handouts,
1970-1971
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| 5.1 |
University Presidential memos,
1969-1970; includes news
releases.
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Subseries D. Organizations and committees
Various committees, organizations and positions that were either
created due to campus unrest or else effected by it.
| 5.2 |
Ad hoc committee on the ROTC,
1970
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| 5.3 |
Council of the University at Buffalo; includes
official statements.
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| 5.4 |
Peace Patrol,
1970-1971; includes interview with David
Hayes, clippings, "Student Faculty Campus Patrol Fact Sheets, #1-11" with
background information on minority student demands, disciplinary charges for
arrested student strikers, ROTC, Themis, open admission policies, police on
campus, armband.
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| 5.5 |
ROTC task force,
1970
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| 5.6 |
Task Force on University-Community Relations,
1971; includes final report.
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| 5.7 |
Temporary Hearing Commission on Campus
Disruption
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| 5.8-5.10 |
University Survival Group,
1970; includes handwritten notes, Task
Force on Academic Reform, Faculty Senate.
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Series III. Surveys.
This series includes three surveys (two for students and one for
faculty) on attitudes towards the Feb-Mar 1970 student disorders. This data was
used in the chapter, "Campus Crisis: The Search for Power." in the publication,
Perspectives on Social Power, 1974.
| 5.11 |
Survey of student attitudes towards the Feb-Mar 1970
student disorders (survey I),
1970; includes grant statement of
purpose.
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| 5.12 |
Survey of student attitudes towards the Feb-Mar 1970
student disorders (survey I): analyses,
1970
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| 5.13 |
Survey of student attitudes towards the Feb-Mar 1970
student disorders (survey I): "codebook" survey of answers,
1970
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| 6.1-6.7 |
Survey of student attitudes towards the Feb-Mar 1970
student disorders (survey I): surveys, 1-104
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| 6.8-6.9 |
Survey Research Center studies (survey II),
1971
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| 7.1 |
Survey of faculty attitudes towards the Feb-Mar 1970
student disorders (survey III),
1972
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| 7.2-7.5 |
Survey of faculty attitudes towards the Feb-Mar 1970
student disorders (survey III): question #10 comments
1972
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| 7.6-7.7 |
UB student opinion polls,
1970-1972
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Series IV. Clippings,
1967-1972.
This series is a subject reference file of newspapers collected by
Pruitt and others from 1967-1972. All of the newspapers are duplicates from the
Archives collection. Articles clipped and photocopied were specifically on the
topics from this collection. For more information on student concerns on global
issues please see the Archives' holdings of relevant publications.
| 7.8 |
Ethos,
Mar 1969 - Feb 1971, May 1975
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| 7.9 |
The Gazette,
Mar 14 - Dec 5, 1969
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| 8.1-8.4 |
Reporter,
Jan 1970 - Mar 1971, May, Oct
1975
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| 8.5-8.13 |
The Spectrum,
May 1966, Nov 1967 - Feb 1972, Apr - Aug,
1975
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| 8.14 |
Miscellaneous,
1967-1970; includes the New York Times,
Buffalo Evening News.
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Search Terms
Authors
Gahagan, James, 1927-
Pruitt, Dean G.
Siggelkow, Richard A.
Subjects
Bennis, Warren G.
Regan, Peter F.
Buffalo (N.Y.)--Riots
Buffalo (N.Y.)--Politics and government
Campus violence--New York
(State)--Buffalo
Police--New York (State)--Buffalo
Student movements--New York
(State)--Buffalo
Student-administrator relationships--New
York (State)--Buffalo
Student protesters--New York
(State)--Buffalo
Student strikes--New York
(State)--Buffalo
Student unions--New York (State)--Buffalo
Students--New York
(State)--Buffalo--Political activity
Genre Terms
Interviews
Narratives
Chronologies
Surveys
Clippings
Handouts
Affidavits
Court orders
Letters
Related Materials
Additional University Archives' campus unrest record collections: 3/5/33, 3/5/351, 3/5/570m, 3/5/779, 3/5/783, 16/4F/134