Campus Unrest: Research conducted by Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan, Psychology Department
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- 1967-1972, 1975
Creator
- Pruitt, Dean G. (Person)
- Gahagan, James P. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English.
Terms of Access and Use
The bulk of the Campus Unrest collection is open for research. According to the terms agreed upon at the time of each interview, Post-crisis interviews in Accession 2019-027 series are closed until after the death of the interviewee.
Copyright
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 University Archives before requesting photocopies and/or publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Once permission is obtained, most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
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.
Extent
4 Linear Feet (9 manuscript boxes)
Abstract
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.
Arrangement
This collection is divided into five series:
- Prepared chronologies and writings
- Gathered research
- Surveys Series
- Clippings
- 2019-027
Acquisition Information
The collection was originally gifted in March 21, 2001 as collection #01-001. Newspapers from the clipping series were integrated with collection #03-728. Series "Accession 2019-027" was gifted in April 2019.
Accruals and Additions
No further accruals are expected to this collection.
Processing Information
Processed by Jessica Tanny, 2004. Additions (series 2019-027) processed by Marie Elia.
- Affidavits
- Bennis, Warren G.
- Campus violence -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
- Chronologies (lists)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- College students -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
- Handbills
- Interviews
- Judicial records
- Letters (correspondence)
- Narratives (document genres)
- Police -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
- Questionnaires
- Regan, Peter F.
- Riots -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
- Siggelkow, Richard A.
- Student movements -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
- Student protestors -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
- Student strikes -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
- Student unions -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
- Student-administrator relationships -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
Source
- University Archives (Repository, Organization)
- Campus Unrest at the University at Buffalo Collection (State University of New York at Buffalo) (Organization)
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Campus Unrest: Research conducted by Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan, Psychology Department
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Jessica Tanny.
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- December 2014: Finding aid migrated to ArchivesSpace by Gabrielle Carlo
- 2019 November 11: Finding aid revised to include additions, series 2019-027, and container instances updated by Marie Elia
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives Repository
420 Capen Hall
Buffalo New York 14260-1674 US
716-645-2916
716-645-3714 (Fax)
lib-archives@buffalo.edu