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Finding Aid for the Guide to the Campus Unrest: Research conducted by Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan, Social Psychology Department, 1967-1972, 1975

3/5/897

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives

Finding aid prepared by Jessica Tanny.
Finding aid encoded in EAD by Jessica Tanny, 2005.
Finding aid written in English.
Finding aid prepared using local best practices.

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Collection Overview

Administrative Information

[Description and dates], Box-Folder#, 3/5/897, Campus Unrest: Research conducted by Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan, Social Psychology Department, 1967-1972, 1975, University Archives, The State University of New York at Buffalo.

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The collection was originally deposited in March 21, 2001 as collection #01-001. Newspapers from the clipping series were integrated with collection #03-728.

The bulk of the Campus Unrest collection is open for research.

University records are public records and once fully processed are generally open to research use. Access to student and personnel records is restricted for 80 years from the date of creation. See reference staff for details. No restrictions on access apply to published records. The restriction of university records is subject to compliance with applicable laws, including the Freedom of Information Act. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the archives' usual procedures unless otherwise specified.

Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.

Processed by Jessica Tanny, 2004.

No further accruals are expected to this collection.

Historical Note

This archive contains a record of a research project that started in 1969 and ended in 1973. Its main product was an intensive case study of the Buffalo Student Crisis in which the city police occupied the campus and 45 faculty members went to jail. The case study was directed by [Dean G. Pruitt] and staffed by Dr. James Gahagan, a postdoctoral fellow with a deep knowledge of the contemporary youth culture, and several graduate students in social psychology. The research was housed in the Department of Psychology which was then located on the Ridge Lea Campus.

[Pruitt's] main research interest was in social conflict, as was Dr. Gahagan's. Hence, when he joined [Pruitt] in 1969, [they] decided to observe the developing conflict between the university administration and the radical students on the UB campus. [They] wrote extensive notes on the mini-crisis of 1969 and were ready, with a team of trained observers, when the major student uprising hit the campus in February, 1970. [Their] intention was to write a theoretical book based on [the UB case as well as five other campus unrest cases], but this never materialized. All [they] published was a book chapter on the UB case and a Spectrum article and two conference presentations on [their] student surveys.

--From "Archive of the UB Student Crisis of 1970" by Dean G. Pruitt, March 21, 2001.

Scope and Content Note

Interviews, chronologies and surveys collected by social psychologists, Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan pertaining to the events on the South campus of the State University of New York at Buffalo mainly from February to April 1970.

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