Word: gymnasium
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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...
...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...
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...