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...were arrested by police breaking up the siege. A university disciplinary committee recommended that criminal-trespass charges be dropped, but that the rebels be placed on probation for a year and those guilty of theft or vandalism be suspended or expelled. Backed by the trustees, Columbia President Grayson Kirk insisted that the trespass charges could not be dropped; reluctantly, he agreed to let the committee have final disciplinary authority in dealing with students...
Rudd was reported to have said that President Grayson Kirk was "too intransigent" and other groups or persons lacked authority...
...decision to call in the police, said Columbia President Grayson Kirk, was "the most painful one I have ever made." Although the need for some drastic action to end the impasse was due partly to Kirk's own vacillation in handling the student protests, he had plenty of provocation to call in the police. For one thing, the strike had expanded well beyond its initial aims getting the university to cancel plans for a gymnasium in nearby Morningside Park and drop its affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Govern ment-supported research center...
...explore. The temptation to loot is tremendous, middle-class morality notwithstanding, but there is no looting. I am particularly attracted by a framed diploma from American Airlines declaring Grayson Kirk...
...also mentioned that Harvard's administration long ago delegated academic and disciplinary authority to faculty members. Columbia president Grayson Kirk and his board of trustees retain control over student discipline...