Cold War University: Madison and the New Left in the Sixties

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183 Notes Intro­ duc­ tion 1. Daily Car­ di­ nal, May 17, 1966. 2. ­ George Flynn, The Draft, 1940–1973 (Law­ rence: Uni­ ver­ sity Press of Kan­ sas, 1993), 166–87; New York Times, May 17, 1966, 8. For a dis­ cus­ sion of ­ changes in the draft as they af­ fected the UW, see “Spe­ cial Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Fa­ culty Meet­ ing,” May 23, 1966, min­ utes, UW ­ Archives, Se­ ries 4/19/1, Box 38, “Stu­ dents—­ Sit-in—May 1966” and “Re­ port and Rec­ om­ men­ da­ tions on the Uni­ ver­ sity and Se­ lec­ tive Ser­ vice,” June 10, 1966, UW ­ Archives, Se­ ries 4/19/1, Box 38, “Stu­ dents—­ Sit-in—May 1966.” 3. “Why We ­ Protest,” 1966, UW ­ Archives, Se­ ries 4/19/1, Box 38, “Stu­ dents—­ Sit-in—May 1966”; “Spe­ cial Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Fa­ culty Meet­ ing,” May 23, 1966, min­ utes, UW ­ Archives, Se­ ries 4/19/1, Box 38, “Stu­ dents—­ Sit-in—May 1966”; Daily Car­ di­ nal, May 14, 1966. 4. “Why We ­ Protest,” 1966, UW ­ Archives; “Spe­ cial Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Fa­ culty Meet­ ing,” May 23, 1966, UW ­ Archives. The head­ lines were from the Wis­ con­ sin State Jour­ nal, May 19, 1966. 5. Daily Car­ di­ nal, May 19, 1966, and May 20, 1966; state­ ment by cam­ pus ­ clergy, 1966, UW ­ Archives, Se­ ries 4/19/1, Box 38, “Stu­ dents—­ Sit-in—May 1966”; “Sit-In Con­ tin­ ues; ­ Blockade’s Out,” Wis­ con­ sin State Jour­ nal, May 18, 1966; “Re­ port and Rec­ om­ men­ da­ tions on the Uni­ ver­ sity and Se­ lec­ tive Ser­ vice,” June 10, 1966, UW ­ Archives, Se­ ries 4/19/1, Box 38, “Stu­ dents—­ Sit-in—May 1966.” The bill to raise tui­ tion for­ out-of-state stu­ dents did not pass. 6. “Sit-In Gains, Still Threat­ ens,” Wis­ con­ sin State Jour­ nal, May 19, 1966; “Wis­ con­ sin U. Seeks to End Stu­ dent Anti­ draft ­ Sit-In,” New York Times, May 19, 1966; Rob­ ben Flem­ ing, “Fa­ culty Doc­ u­ ment 89,” Oc­ to­ ber 3, 1966, UW ­ Archives, Se­ ries 40/1/8/1, Box 10; Rob­ ben Flem­ ing, Tem­ pests into Rain­ bows: Man­ ag­ ing Tur­ bu­ lence (Ann Arbor: Uni­ ver­ sity of Mich­ i­ gan Press, 1996), 147–61. The Wis­ con­ sin State Jour­ nal in­ di­ cates that there were five thou­ sand stu­ dents at the meet­ ing on Bas­ com Hill, while the ar­ ti­ cle in the New York Times in­ di­ cates there were ten thou­ sand. 7. “Spe­ cial Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Fa­ culty Meet­ ing,” May 23, 1966, min­ utes, UW­ Archives, Se­ ries 4/19/1, Box 38, “Stu­ dents—­ Sit-in—May 1966.” 184 E Notes to pages 7–9 8. Daily Car­ di­ nal, May 24, 1966; June 20, 1966; and De­ cem­ ber 13, 1966. 9. The term “Cold War uni­ ver­ sity” has been used else­ where. See Re­ becca Lowen, Creat­ ing the Cold War Uni­ ver­ sity: The Trans­ for­ ma­ tion of Stan­ ford (Berke­ ley: Uni­ ver­ sity of Cal­ i­ for­ nia Press, 1997). Je­ remi Suri uses the term “cul­ tural contra­ dic­ tions of the Cold War” in a sim­ i­ lar man­ ner to de­ scribe the his­ tory of West ­ Berlin’s Free Uni­ ver­ sity, a uni­ ver­ sity that was ­ founded with the as­ sis­ tance of the ­ United ­ States to sym­ bol­ ize free­ dom and ex­ cel­ lence in the West but that be­ came the site of sig­ nif­i­ cant ­ sixties-era ­ protest. See Je­ remi Suri, “The Cul­ tural Contra­ dic­ tions of the Cold War: The Case of West Ber­ lin,” Cold War His­ tory 4 (April 2004): 1–20. 10. Ellen ­ Schrecker’s work is the best on McCarthy­ ism in ­ higher ed­ u­ ca­ tion. For her dis­ cus­ sion of pol­ i­ cies on stu­ dent ­ groups and cam­ pus speak­ ers at the Uni­ ver­ sity of Mich­ i­ gan and the loy­ alty oath con­ tro­ versy at the Uni­ ver­ sity of Cal­ i­ for­ nia, see ­ Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthy­ ism and the Uni­ ver­ sities (New York: Ox...