Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gymnasium controversy has been simmering ever since the university in 1959 leased part of nearby Morningside Park as a site for the facility. A few Harlem leaders objected on the grounds that the project would deprive them of park land-though the area involved occupies barely two acres of the 30-acre park. A later objection arose over the architectural plans: while Columbia intended to make part of the gym exclusively available to Harlem youngsters, it blundered by providing for a rather grand entrance opening on to the campus and a separate, less conspicuous one, facing Harlem. Negroes seized upon...
...Institute for Defense Analysis, a Washington "thinktank" that conducts military-related research for the Federal Government. But the students, carried away by their own heady sense of sudden power, shouted down the university's offer and marched to Morningside Park, where they tore down a fence at the gymnasium excavation site...
...Kirk rejected. Failure to take disciplinary action, Kirk insisted, would "destroy the whole fabric of the university community." But the school yielded on at least one important point. At the urging of New York City Mayor John Lindsay, it announced that it would temporarily suspend construction of the disputed gymnasium. Still the students refused to budge...
...Board also announced its "intention that consultants and negotiations with community leaders shall be held before a decision is reached as to whether or not construction of the gymnasium will be resumed...
While we appreciate the need for maintaining many of the services mentioned in your letter--"the operation of Hilles Library, the Deans' Office, the protection of the Harvard University Police ... extracurricular facilities in Agassiz and the Gymnasium ..."--we nevertheless fear that any contributions to such services would serve only to free funds for use on Radcliffe's new dormitory system. We do not mean, however, to preclude the renovation of existing dormitories...