The strike against Columbia, protesting the violence that ended the buildings occupations, May 1968.Courtesy of Barnard College Archives.
Meanwhile, on Columbia's Campus. . .
As the LeClair affair debate continued, other student protests broke out. LeClair and her boyfriend, Peter Behr, were active in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), one of the activist groups that occupied Low Library and several other building during an eight-day standoff in April 1968.
In the middle of chaos, Martha Peterson was officially inaugurated as President of Barnard College on April 29, 1968 – the last full day of the student take-overs, and in the midst of the LeClair affair. Photograph by Joseph Gadzek, courtesy of Barnard College Archives.