April 13, 1989 Abbie Hoffman, member of the Chicago Seven, a founder of the 1960s Yippie movement, and a ma- jor player in the 1968 Columbia cam- pus upheaval was found dead in his New Hope, PA home Wednesday night, authorities said. He apparently died of natural causes. Hoffman was found around 8:15 p.m. fully dressed in his bed under the covers by his landlord, Michael Waldron, according to Solebury Township Police Chief Richard Mangen. Bucks County Coroner Dr. Thomas J. Rusco would not say whether any drugs or alcohol were found on the scene, and would not speculate on the cause of death. Hoffman had been depressed over an auto accident he had a few months ago, Waldron told police. However, there was no suicide note and no signs that would suggest suicide, Waldron said. An autopsy was scheduled for this morning. Hoffman, the author of ‘“Revolu- tion for the Hell of It,” was in- strumental in the 1968 student upris- ings at Columbia. He was one of the students to occupy the Mathematics building, generally regarded as the most militant of the buildings seized during the ’68 student strike. Hoffman, who once threw dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to disrupt business, returned to campus last year to reflect on the historic uprisings for the Columbia University activist reu- nion. At the reunion, he said each oc- cupied building had it’s own significance. “*Hamilton was black; Avery was hippie, or, now, New Age; Fayerweather, traditional, straight left; Low was anarchist, and Math was the heavy hitters,’’ Hoffman said last year. ‘“‘We were ready to COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR 1968 blockade leader Hoffman found dead fight the police. It was the building we took last.”’ Of his 60’s days Hoffman said ‘* °68 was a great, wonderful year they don’t make years like that anymore, and if it weren’t for our ef- forts we'd have a president today sending troops off to exotic countries such as Lebanon and Grenada and bombing Tripoli.” As one of the Chicago Seven, Hoffman stood trial on charges of conspiracy to disrupt the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention. Two years ago Hoffman was ar- rested for the 42nd time for pro- testing CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Hoffman made his debut as a stand-up comedian in New York last summer and lectured at 50 colleges and universities annually. Hoffman, born Abbott Hoffman in Worcester, MA in 1936, received a B.A. in psychology in 1959 from Brandeis University, and a masters from Berkeley in 1960. Compiled from wire service reports by A. Cassidy Sehgal SPECTATOR/JOSHUA GILLETTE Abbie Hoffman : SPECTATOR/QUINTANA ROO DUNNE LETTING IT ALL OUT: Director/Actor Chris Boscia does his infamous Sean Penn imitation. Must be getting too much sun. SEAS Student Council election ends By Caroline Lee Elections for the School of Engineering Student Council ended yesterday, but Elections Commis- sioner Ben Wan, SEAS ’92, refus- ed to release the results of the race for the University Senate race. The senate position is ‘‘to be an- nounced. We have to discuss that with the University Senate. We have to talk to them first,” Wan said. Wan is also Vice Chair of the Engineering Student Council. Wan would not say why he would not release the name of the new senator. Current Barnard College Liaison Jeff Dean, SEAS ’91, was elected Columbia College Liaison, and cur- rent President of the Sophomore Class, Touth Evans, was elected Bar- nard College Liaison. For the Class of 1990, Hyun Bae was elected President, current junior class president Laura Cordani was elected Vice President, and Anita Cordani and Ross Fox were elected Class Representatives. For the Class of 1991, current BC Springfest events begin tomorrow By Jonathan Ross While some students see spring as a time for protest, others believe it is a cause for celebration. Baranrd students will do just that today as Springfest ’89 kicks off with a barbe- que and an all-day vendor sale, ac- cording to Coordinator Dana Leib, BC 790. Sponsored by the Barnard Student Government Association (SGA), Springfest ’89 is a three-day event commemorating the “‘rites of spring,’’ according to SGA Vice- President for Student Activities Peggy Wang, BC ’90. Today’s events include an all-day vendor sale along the various walks of the Bar- nard campus. An open barbeque is planned from noon to 2 p.m. on . Lehman Lawn. Friday will bring a professional travelling carnival to Lehman Lawn as well as the sounds of Dreamspeak, the Blues Travellers, and Majick. In addition, several on-campus bands will perform throughout the day, including the Bacchantae, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, the Clef Hangers, the Barnard College Musical Theater (BCMT), and Notes and Keys. From 12-3 p.m., McIntosh Ac- tivities Council will sponsor a free barbeque tomorrow which will be followed by a free pizza party pro- vided by the Springfest Committee, Lieb said. The three-day event will be cap- ped off by a ‘‘Monte Carlo Night’’ 10 p: m. to i a.m. ee in 5 tosh Cafe, Lieb said. Co-sponsored by the Chinese Stu- dent Club, ‘‘Monte Carlo Night’ will consist of professional gambling tables furnished with fake money. The Springfest Committee had in- itially intended to hold Barnard’s famous Greek Games, last held 20 years ago, according to Wang. However, administrators cancelled the Games because of a perceived lack of student interest and the dif- ficulty in coordinating alumnae ef- fort, she said. Springfest Coordinators then decided to sponsor their own version of the Games, but were unable to do so due to bad timing. ‘“‘“We were told too late of the ad- See Spring, p. 9 SPECTATOR FILE PHOTO SORRY, ATHENA: Barnard’s annual Springfest Celebration begins Friday, but without. the planned evival of the Greek’ Games... Vice President of the class of 1991 Julie Chow was elected President, John Prior was elected Vice Presi- dent and Manish Sagar and Nedi Telvi were elected Class Representatives. For the Class of 1992, Yoshi Maruyama was elected President, John Huang was elected Vice Presi- dent, and Janneth Ignacio and Allen Chu were elected Class Representatives. The chair and vice chair of i council are elected by other council members. Mexican-American named coordinator of IRC house By A. Cassidy Sehgal Richard Chacon, a Mexican- American first-year graduate student at the School of International and Public Affairs, has been named coor- dinator of the Intercultural Resource Center (IRC), according to Assistant Dean of Students William Wiggins. The IRC, designed to promote multiculturalism at Columbia, open- ed on January 11 for student residents. The 113th street brownstone was formerly occupied by Chi Omega Rho fraternity. Chacon said he decided to accept the position as house coordinator because he believes the University needs a center for minority students and because he had met some of the current residents of the house who said they needed a coordinator to get house events going. “It is a chance for me to work with these people and mold the position and define just what the IRC is go- ing to be,’’ Chacon said. “I hope the opening of the center will show that after ten years of plan- ning for the house, we’re ready to begin,’’ he added. Chacon also said he wants people to understand that the house will not- only be a resource for minority students but for all students in the community. . The gala opening of the center will be held within the next few weeks, and a lottery to fill the 14 remaining residence spaces will also be held soon, Wiggins said. Chacon said although he will move into the house during the next few weeks, he does not expect to hold many events this semester since there are only a few weeks of classes left and finals will begin soon. Planning for future events will be done over the summer by Chacon and other administrators, he said. Chacon also said he hopes to have ~ the IRC library established in the house by next semester. Gustafson lectures on 19th Century Russian philosophy By Martha Cooley Professor Richard Gustafson, Anne Whitney Olin Professor of Russian, spoke on philosophy in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century yesterday as part of the Barnard Centennial Lecture series. Gustafson lectured on the slavophile movement, popular among many 19th century Russian intellectuals. Slavophiles believed Russia was becoming westernized, and that with westernization, came many values that were alien to the Russian way of life. The most prominent of these in- vading ideas was that of the supremacy of reason, Gustafson said. Reason was seen as incompatible with Eastern mysticism and the religious orthodoxy that was such a large part of Russian culture, Gustaf- son said. Slavophiles found it difficut to reconcile reason with many of their religious beliefs, Gustafson added. For example, things such as the trini- “ty; heaven and hell ‘could’ not be reduced to simple formulas, he said. Many philosophers actually dealt with the reinterpretation of what God was and what doctrine should be, Gustafson, said. 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