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COO 0 18-1 14 T o I .. I -- SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT - . The peace and tranquility formula of Cornell's President James. A. PERKINS, one.of soft 'permise'iveness, .has imbued the r-.. campus black militants with sufficient courage to utilize brute belligerence: A study of recent Cornel1 history clearly pointed - ;..t :. to the recent armed takeover of a'University building and hope- fully will assist bther college heads in formulating their strategy in dealing with the white as w e l l a s the black radical revolution in Academe. seems far more advisable and utilitarian as academit self-preser- . vation kethods than the pusillanimous exemplar of President PERKWS. The Heusburgh approach or the use'of a court ord6t . . -+ That the Ithaca cakpus 'could be so deformed-by strife is in part attributable, ironically,. to the president's well-meaning liberaltsm in' recruiting black students, many of whom were ill- equipped for Cornell's academic demands. - Storm clouds erapted last sprisg when three Negro students, infuriated by an economics professor'e' classroom Contention about the superiority of a western civilizatkh seized the offices of the economiFs department and .held the department's chairman prisoner. When the Perkins administration did not press charges against the three, it flashed the green light for anarchy. In December 1968 (black militant activities erupted again, this time- with increased irrationality, increased violence and with an in- credible lack of firm discipline and counter force Cro?m PERKINS. The April armed takeover cannot be attributed to the cross burning at tho Ncgrb coed dorm (widely bclicved in Ithaca to have been startcd by Negroes, incidcntnlly) but rather is a culnrinatisn of a scries of black militant acts of arrogance. Pu,Shing a campaign for black studies (the a~lministration~s non-rcsistance postuir: liar1 already k t. .. .