Associate Dean, Alex B. Platt to Columbia College student Ted Gold, April 5, 1968

In March 1968, SDS defied this policy, staging a demonstration inside Low Library demanding Columbia’s resignation from IDA. Despite limited enforcement of his ban on indoor demonstrations prior to this event, President Kirk placed six of the 150 anti-war student activists – all SDS leaders later known as the “IDA Six” – on disciplinary probation. One of the principal demands that SDS promoted at the April 23rd Sun Dial rally was amnesty for the “IDA Six.”

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