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...committee ran into the first of many long delays. Gund Hall had been scheduled for construction on the site where Hunt Hall stands in the Yard. Its present location--the corner of Cambridge and Oxford Sts opposite Memorial Hall-became open when the University finally purchased the land from a nearby church after many years of tedious negotiations...
...design development drawings were approved in September 1968 and the architect received permission to complete the construction documents. Although some dissatisfaction had occurred up to this point, the most bungled chapters in the Gund Hall story would be written during the spring...
Nineteen sixty eight--sixty nine was a year of general turmoil throughout the University. The strike at Columbia University the previous cup many people here. The subsequent bust at University Hall in April 1969 forced such mundane projects as Gund Hall into monetary limbo...
During the early months of 1969 there were rumors that Gund Hall might never be built. A second committee--with an equal number of faculty and students--had been organized to investigate complaints about the project and a three-month inquiry into the feasibility of Gund Hall began. Although the committee eventually reaffirmed the program of its predecessor, the inquiry generated a great deal of bitterness between the faculty, the design firm, and the students...
Doebele also pointed out that the building boom inflated wages and there contractors bids. The bid for Gund Hall was given to Moses Slotnick a 1927 graduate of the Business School in August 1969. According to Doebele Slotnick had planned to finish the building in August 1971 but the death of the elder Slotnick delayed its completion...