A student saw Menaged as he climbed down from one of the library windows and brought him over to a proctor, who took his identification card.
Menaged, who appeared pale and tired, said that the demonstrators had adequate food. Girls had set up a kitchen, he said.
He also said that the people inside feared a police charge last night. They had the doors and windows barricaded with filing cabinets, chairs, and tables. "Everyone inside was really scared," he said.
But the police did not get inside the building. Instead, they charged the faculty members who had surrounded Low on the outside to keep away assaults of conservative students. Twenty-five plainclothes police, billy clubs concealed at first under their trench coats, tried to break up the faculty for some unknown reason.
In the melee that followed, one faculty member, Richard Greenman suffered a five-inch gash on the forehead and had to be hospitalized. An unidentified woman was also slightly injured.
According to the New York Post, sources in Mayor John V. Lindsay's office said that the police moved toward the building at the request of Kirk, although Kirk did not intend the men to break up the faculty, but merely "get into position.