ABSTRACT
The campus-wide student protests and police bust at Columbia University during the week of April 24, 1968, centered on hundreds of students barricading themselves in five buildings and hundreds more gathered outside for nearly an entire week. After the police bust of Avery Hall and the other occupied buildings on campus, several Columbia architecture students regrouped to form Urban Deadline, a design collective that drew students and graduates from several disciplines at Columbia. Columbia University, itself, sustained the group for much of the 1970s and into the 1980s with a master plan for Teachers College, disabled persons' compliance projects, and renovations to six residence halls and academic buildings including the 1922 Milbank Memorial Library. As cries of gym crow must go began to circulate around Harlem, on the other side of the park, Columbia's architecture students began to connect the terms of their education with the conditions just outside their studio windows.
