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[Description and dates], Box/folder number, 3/5/1248, Richard A. Siggelkow Campus Unrest Collection, 1961-1991, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Acquisition InformationReceived from Richard Siggelkow circa 1990s.
Terms of AccessThe Richard A. Siggelkow Campus Unrest Collection, 1961-1991 is open for research.
CopyrightCopyright 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.
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Richard A. Siggelkow received his B.A. (1941), M.A.(1948), and Ph.D.(1953) in Education from the University of Wisconsin. He came to the University at Buffalo in 1958 as Dean of Students. In 1967 he was promoted to Vice President for Student Affairs and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1983. Dr. Siggelkow also was a faculty member in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology.
Prior to his service at UB he had been assistant dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin from 1956 to 1958 and associate director of the University of Wisconsin Teacher Placement Bureau from 1949-1956. He also taught history and social studies at the secondary school level from 1945 to 1947.
During World War II he rose from the rank of private in the Field Artillery to a major during his active duty period. He retired from the U.S. Army Reserves as colonel. He was awarded the Bronze Star during his 38 months of service in the European and African Theaters of Operations during the war and took part in eight battle campaigns.
As Vice President for Student Affairs, Richard Siggelkow was intimately involved in the years of campus unrest at the University at Buffalo, particularly 1966 through 1970. Issues of academic freedom, recruitment by the Selective Service and Dow Chemical Corporation, the Vietnam War, as well as demands for a more democratic administration of the University that would include faculty and students, caused protests on campus. A timeline of events during the crucial year 1969-1970 is available here .
Collection contains miscellaneous material Richard Siggelkow kept while researching for his book, Dissent and Disruption: A University Under Siege, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1991. Also included are personal correspondence, essays, and clippings regarding his role as Dean of Students later Vice President for Student Affairs.
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I. Campus Unrest,
1962-1991 |
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Arrangement is by date. |
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 1.1 | Academic Freedom, 1962-1969 | |
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Includes materials on a disputed 1962 lecture series entitled,"A Political Spectrum of a Contemporary World," including visits by Sir Oswald Mosley (Fascism) and Dr. Henry Aptheker (Communism) as well the "open campus" policy for all job recruiters; Buffalo Alumnus, 1962; three issues of The Gazette: State University of New York at Buffalo, 1967-1969; transcript of a news clipping; a manuscript; and a memo from President Meyerson proposing a Faculty committee on academic freedom. |
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| 1.2 | Academic Freedom - Publications Task Force, Sub Board I, 1966-1973 | |
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Concerns the constitutional rights of campus newspapers. |
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| 1.3 | Feldman Report: "Special Report: Student Demonstration",
August 15, 1966 [28 pages plus 6 enclosures] |
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Concerned the Selective Service test given to determine student deferrals from the draft. From the report: "This particular demonstration [May 1966] grew out of the pressures brought to bear on the Administration by an ad hoc group naming themselves the Graduate Faculty Committee on the Selective Service (GFCSS). Finding fault with the Selective Service System in its relation to the academic community, this group inadvertently focused attention on the lack of student and faculty involvement concerning administrative affairs, while trying to change current university policy." |
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| 1.4 | Dow Chemical Corporation recruitment, 1967 | |
| 1.5 |
Handbook, University of Buffalo Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS),
circa 1968 [36 pp.] |
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The Buffalo Nine booklet,
1969 [16 pp.] |
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Concerns the arrest, trial and sentencing of draft resisters. |
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| 1.7 | Student Affairs Staff Call-in Log marking events of student demonstrations following sentencing of Buffalo Nine defendants, March 19-20, 1969 | |
| 1.8 | Photograph of Buffalo Police at Rotary Field, University at Buffalo, circa 1970 | |
| 1.9 | Blueprint of University at Buffalo Main Street Campus, 1970 | |
| 1.10 | Bennis, Warren G., Resignation letter from Acting Executive Vice Presidency, March 9, 1970 | |
| 1.11 | Reports and Chronologies, March 13-19, 1970 | |
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Includes some by Prof. Dean Pruitt. |
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| 1.12 | Essay, “Anatomy of a Disruption - State University of New York at Buffalo,”, July 7, 1970 | |
| 1.13 | Testimony of Richard Siggelkow concerning student unrest before the Temporary State Commission to Study Causes of Campus Unrest [New York], 1970 | |
| 1.14 | Correspondence, faculty survey for Siggelkow book, 1987-1989 | |
| 1.15 | WBFO, Letter from William Siemering to Richard Siggelkow on WBFO's role in the Spring 1970 campus unrest, 1991 | |
| 1.16 | Notebook - student disciplinary hearing, undated | |
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Contains handwritten notes, no author apparent. |
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II. Student Affairs,
1966-1981 |
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Contains materials reflecting Richard Siggelkow's service as Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs. |
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Arrangement is alphabetical. |
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| 1.17 | Clippings, 1970 1975 | |
| 1.18 | Correspondence, 1966-1978 | |
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Includes policy memos and personal. |
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| 1.19 | Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report on Richard Siggelkow, 1981 | |
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Regarding access to foreign student records. |
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| 1.20 | Graduate Course Outline, "Blacks, Racism and Minority Groups in Higher Education," CED #620, September 1970 | |
| 1.21 | Essay, “Student Government and the Administrative Dilemma” by R.A. Siggelkow, 1961 | |
| 1.22 | Essays, “Changing Students"”, by Richard Siggelkow, 1959 1966-1967 1977 | |
| 1.23 | Essays on Student Retention, 1977 undated | |
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No authors but one may be by Siggelkow. |
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| 1.24 | Student Affairs at the Crossroads, excerpts, 1972 | |
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