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The contemptuous expressions on the faces of the Columbia radicals, the strident, insulting violence and obscenity (and incoherence) of their language, damaged the American republic (and a great university). It also signaled the sunrise, not of a utopian era, but of shameless cynicism and coarse libertinism, political and nonpolitical, in the midst of which we all must now live, move, and have our being."

...commonly referred to as OBAMANATION.

The Columbia uprising significantly damaged Columbia as a major teaching university. Since Nicolas M Butler was president all Columbia faculty were expected to be teachers as well as researchers and writers. This produced a unique undergraduate teaching experience and made Columbia the most dynamic and exciting of the elite universities at least at then undergrad liberal arts level. The weakness of the Columbia administration and the destructive occupation of faculty offices dealt a near mortal blow to Columbia as a real teaching not propagandizing university. Many senior faculty either retired or went elsewhere in the years immediately after ‘68. One such was Gilbert Hinget, possible the most brilliant expositor of Greek and Roman classic literature and history at any US university. Highet had been assembling what would have been a near definitive treatment of comedy from its Attic origins to the late Empire for perhaps a decade. His office was one of hundreds occupied and trashed by these communist vandals and the extensive files he maintained, including the materials on his comedy in the classic world were scattered and destroyed. Some were used for toilet tissue and the soiled pages left dumped in his office. Highet was too old to try and reconstruct his work and retired a couple years after. he was one of the many casualties of the Columbia putsch. In World war 2 he had been a LTC in British Army intelligence and had questioned many Nazis. He believed the Columbia vandals were less intelligent and had far less physical courage than the average Nazi.