ABSTRACT
Bandoliers across their shoulders, rifles and shotguns casually held ready, the black students of Cornell broke into American consciousness one morning in April 1969 like an advance patrol of that army of barbarians which is the special nightmare of the affluent and, for some, their dream of regeneration. Humanities had not been strong at Cornell; it was not an area to which the administration had paid any serious attention. But as the Vietnam war went on and was intensified, students at Cornell, like those elsewhere, stepped up their protests. As blacks increased at Cornell they experienced the usual problems that blacks undergo in a white environment. The main grounds on which further troubles for Cornell are predicted are the discrepancies between student hopes for change and the structural inabilities of universities to obtain significant change, especially in the educational process.
