Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning the night before the third bust and second police battle. We are walking down Broadway from Columbia's 116th Street --Checkpoint Charlie, where you pass in and out the campus through credentials check. Shouting and sounds of riot draw us around the corner of 110th St. A dozen students standing in front of a small white-pillared building are shouting up at a 15-story Columbia dormitory, Carmen Hall. About half hold beer cans. Student heads stick out from every third window in Carmen and yell back. I am told that those on the ground are Jocks from "Beta...
...provoked, had once again cracked plenty of heads with unnecessary roughness. The university administration had displayed its customary exquisite sense of poor timing in suspending Rudd and the S.D.S. leaders during a period of relative calm and then heightening tension by ordering a full-scale clearing of the entire campus...
Wall Posters. Randell makes money through a network of 581 part-time campus representatives, who earn up to $4,000 a year distributing samples, doing market research and peddling fad items. Last year, for example, they sold 55,000 paper dresses in 27 days for Mars Manufacturing Co., topped that by selling 100,000 personality and psychedelic wall posters (at $1 each). At a higher level, the company sold 105,000 youth air-fare identification cards for American Airlines-and kept $2 of the $3 price of each card for its effort. To help manufacturers boost sales of everyday products...
With Computers. Still spreading out, Randell early this year bought two other college marketing services and next week will begin a computerized service to match graduating seniors with corporate job openings through a third acquisition, Manhattan-based Compu-job. In mid-June he expects to open a campus discount store at the University of Oklahoma. "It's very easy to start a small business these days," Randell maintains, "if you want to give up everything else for years...
...large group, about 800, students, will be from abroad. The appeal of summer dormitory life evidently is low as nearly 70% of the students will live off campus, Crooks said...