Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once had slum properties (he withdrew the gift); protests by Princeton students against the university's work for the Pentagon-allied Institute for Defense Analyses (trustees are considering disassociating from the institute). In the current uprising at Columbia, extremists forced the university to stop construction of a gymnasium on a location considered offensive to some people in neighboring Harlem (see EDUCATION...
...demonstrations, Kirk began disciplinary proceedings against six of the leaders. Feeling thus challenged, and long provoked, the SDS last week organized a defiant demonstration. The students demanded that the charges against the six be dropped, and also seized the occasion to protest the construction of a new off-campus gymnasium...
THEY cleared the basketball players out of the old Cambridge armory (now an M.I.T. gymnasium) last Sunday night to make way for several hundred small round tables, each with a white and a red carnation in the center and neat white programs with the cartooned image of Cambridge Mayor Walter J. Sullivan on the seats. It was a "do" (testimonial dinner) for Sullivan, perenially the top vote-getter in City Council elections...
Kirk also said tonight that he would yield to a request to discuss the Morningside Park gymnasium issue with the mayor. The mayor is said to favor an alternate site for the gym, which was scheduled to be built on a site leased to Columbia in 1961 for only $3000 a year. Construction has already been halted temporarily at the mayor's request...
They also say that Columbia is trying to "buy off" the city with its gymnasium plan. They argue that no private corporation has the right to take over park land...