“He was gracious, kind and awfully easy to work for.”Īlthough Van Doren wrote under a pseudonym for years, he eventually reclaimed his own name and wrote and edited a number of well-regarded books, including “The Joy of Reading” (1985) and “A History of Knowledge” (1991). “So much with Charlie began with the fact that he was the most charming man in the Western Hemisphere,” McHenry told The Times. As of 2008, Van Doren was teaching English at the University of Connecticut. “It doesn’t seem to me, any more than any other person of intellectual bent - and bookish to begin with - that he had sheltered himself,” said McHenry, who pointed out that Van Doren frequently traveled for Britannica, led seminars on philosophy and returned to teaching. Many saw Van Doren as deliberately withdrawing from life but Robert McHenry, editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica in the 1990s who worked for Van Doren earlier in his career, took issue with that notion in 2005. He used a family connection with philosopher Mortimer Adler, editor of the Great Books series, to land a job as an editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. Van Doren slipped into obscurity and moved to Chicago. When asked outside a courtroom what he planned to do after the legal proceedings were over, Van Doren responded, “For me it will never be over.” The judge, who could have sent them to jail for a year, said that their exposure to national scorn was punishment enough. Almost all of the quiz show producers lost their jobs and were unofficially blacklisted for years.
Read more in the Columbia Daily Spectator's “Crisis at Columbia: An Inside Report on the Rebellion at Columbia.Van Doren and nine other contestants who had appeared on one of three NBC shows - “Twenty One,” “Tic Tac Dough” and “High Low” - pleaded guilty to perjury but were given suspended sentences. Cordier, then dean of the School of International Affairs and a seasoned U.N. An outside fact-finding commission, chaired by Harvard law professor Archibald Cox, is invited on campus to investigate the causes of the disturbances.įour months later, President Kirk announces his retirement. At the committee's urging, the gym project is abandoned, University links to military defense agencies and NROTC are terminated, and criminal charges against arrested students are dropped.
Sovern is made co-chairman, along with political scientist Allan Westin.
After eight days, city police clear the buildings and make 712 arrests, 524 of them Columbia students.Īt a meeting of the Joint Faculties the afternoon following the police bust, the Executive Committee of the Faculty is created to try to restore the torn fabric of the University.
Students occupy five campus buildings, protesting the University's work on Morningside Gymnasium, involvement with military agencies, and alleged racism.
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