"In the spring of 1968, Gilbert (An SDSer and Weatherman) was called before the Columbia University faculty to discuss a possible student strike. He recalls the faculty asking: “Do you say you stand for democracy?” We said, “Yes, we do.” They said, “Would you stand by a referendum, of the students and faculty, everybody at the University?” … And I was really torn between what I considered fundamental issues and the commitment to democracy, participatory democracy, and I sort of hesitated and said, “Well we would stand by a referendum, as long as the people in Harlem, and people in Vietnam, who are the ones most affected by this, can vote, because that’s really participatory democracy.”23"