Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are only 2700 men in Columbia College. Of the over 1000 people who have been arrested, about half of them are from the college. The strike had the active or passive participation of almost everyone in the college, although this was influenced by the cancelling of most class meetings. Many undergraduates who feared arrest supported the sit-ins in petition, and demonstrations...
...likely that the 33 seniors will be put on two weeks probation and then given a diploma. The great bulk of the arrest cases will probably be postponed until fall...
...Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark, decided that their most effective tactic would be to file quietly into the vans (unlike white demonstrators in other buildings, they had kept their occupied quarters immaculate). With the two highest Negro officers in the New York police force observing, it was a model arrest operation-except that no one had brought a key for the main door and it had to be forced open...
...keep police and demonstrators apart were charged by wedges of plainclothesmen. Uniformed officers plunged into the breach to smash open the doors, while others broke in through underground tunnels. At Fayerweather Hall, where protesters had preplanned every act by majority vote, students who intended to submit cleanly to arrest lined up at the door; those who preferred to be dragged out sat on an upper floor; those who decided to resist linked arms on another floor. The neat plans went awry as police kicked and clubbed their way through the building. For no clear reason, they even attacked newsmen, including...
...Police brutality!"-and drew only laughs from bystanders. A girl wedged in a police van saw her plight in grandiose terms. "First they arrest the workers and now the intellectuals!" she shouted. As demonstrators were dragged or shoved into vans, unsympathetic students applauded, demanded: "More police! More police!" Among those booked at precinct stations that morning were a surprisingly large sprinkling of students from other campuses, nearby high schools, and even from no schools at all..They were all released on bail, and their cases will be heard in June...