"Let's Work Together Now"

"Present members of The Establishment would do well to cope. How? Not by suppressing the revolution. Not by turning a deaf ear upon it. But by listenting and analyzing and with the discretion and wisdom of experience, and from the vantage points of influence and power, to guide it, even to cooperate with it." - John Caldwell, "We Have to Cope," box 27, folder 3, John Tyler Caldwell Papers, North Carolina State University Special Collections

Chancellor John T. Caldwell advocated for a more open line of communication between administrators and students in order to create a better learning environment that would compromise between what the administrators wanted and what the students wanted out of their education. His negative views about the US' involvement in the Vietnam War helped shape his interactions with the student body and with Cathy Sterling in particular during the Peace Retreat in May 1970.