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Columbia University President Grayson Kirk (foreground) addresses a press conference as his vice president David Truman looks on. Kirk declared war on rebel students in the name of peace and the scarred school where police earlier arrested 170 students who took over one building and damage 6 others. Kirk broke a week of silence to say that as many students as necessary would be suspended to "restore peace" in the campus..23 May 1968 (KEYSTONE/United Archives / TopFoto/Personalities)