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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disputes involving Columbia and Morningside Heights, a neighborhood whose residents are a mixture of Negroes, Puerto Ricans and white intellectuals attracted by low rents, the university and such varied institutions as Union Theological Seminary and the Juilliard School of Music. In an effort to enlarge its cramped 28.5-acre campus, Columbia since 1963 has acquired nearly $30 million worth of property on the Heights, including 73 low-rent apartment buildings and houses and nearly 20 cheap "S.R.O." (single-room occupancy) hotels, some littered with prostitutes and dope peddlers. By cleaning up the worst of the rooming houses, Columbia has helped...
Cliffies have been cooperating with the newly-formed Draft Union in other ways as well. Committees now being organized will concentrate on several areas of resistance, including counseling men about to be inducted, canvassing on and off campus, printing and distributing leaflets, and setting up a draft information service...
...recurrence of police brutality on Southern campuses in the past two years, while laying bare police intimidation, has at the same time catalyzed increased political activity. These students recognize clearly enough that the college campus no longer enjoys a privileged status in the eyes of the Southern police force. So that now the black college student need go no further than his own campus to realize that his plight is the same as any other Negro's suffering at the hands of the Southern police establishment...
...culture and its attempt to deal with the adolescent, I would like to discuss a recent incident at Harvard College. On October 25 a group of 300-400 students spontaneously filled Mallinckrodt, the chemistry building, to protest the napalm-making Dow Chemical Company's recruiter being permitted on the campus. Several of these students had participated in the peace march on Washington on October 21, while others had lived vicariously through the stories of the beating and tear-gassing of the marchers by the Army's Military Police. The hysteria on campus resulted not just in what the students...
...protesting group, leaderless but determined (the campus Students for a Democratic Society the night before had voted against any act of civil disobedience), refused to allow the Dow Chemical representative to leave Mallinckrodt until he signed an affidavit promising never to return. He refused good-naturedly, and the students even permitted him to speak without too much uproar. The 6-7 hours that the Dow Chemical man was "imprisoned" saw great student turmoil as it was virtually a constant mass meeting with students voting on all sorts of radical political questions. Along with this intellectual ferment went such ludicrous touches...