Holly Ackerman, social sciences librarian at Richter Library, talks about campus protests. She went to Howard University where, on March 19, 1968, a sit-in became the first building takeover on a college campus. She was working as a paraprofessional in a black ghetto, which was frequently patrolled by police officers with German shepherds who would be unleashed on the residents if there was any trouble. Ackerman went on to grad school at Columbia to get a degree in social work. Ackerman says that the student activists had two main issues: they thought the curricula they were being taught were unrealistic in view of the real conditions of the world they lived in; and they were unhappy with social justice and the slow pace of the Civil Rights Movement. She recalls student strikes at Columbia, but concludes that "when things were settled, it seemed to me we settled for very little. ... We accepted a small number of changes." Ackerman says she had applied, with other students, to be a community organizer, but they were told that white women could not be community organizers because it was too dangerous. The students struck a deal: that they would engage in social work for families for a year, but if they still wanted placement in community organization in their second year, it would be granted. Ackerman wound up working for a group of poor people on the west side of Manhattan. Eight groups around the city, who were connected to health centers affiliated with a teaching hospital, plotted to organize take-overs of buildings within the hospital, their ultimate goal being to introduce detox programs for addicts and thereby show that the hospital had not been treating fairly the people in its neighborhood. She concludes by explaining the attitudes behind the radical-revolutionary mode of social change.