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Playing It Cool. The plan seems to be working. When S.D.S. Leader Mark Rudd tried to register, most of the students present looked on with bored amusement. A brief struggle between the radicals and some elderly gymnasium guards was noted primarily for its comedy. The administration also played it cool when 400 students attending the opening session of the "International Assembly of Revolutionary Student Movements" (a confederation of S.D.S.ers, black militants and European radicals) stormed into a classroom in protest against the university's ban on the meeting. Instead of calling in the police, Columbia stood aside...
...permanent halt to construction of a gymnasium in Morningside Park, Work there has been temporarily suspended pending talks with the nieghboring Harlem community...
...morale where it is found among reservists. "Our daily routine," fumed Sergeant Robert A. Levy, a District of Columbia Air Guardsman at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, "consists of reading magazines and newspapers, listening to the radio, playing cards, organizing and participating in chess tournaments, visiting the base gymnasium, pitching horseshoes and taking coffee breaks." Levy, who was president of a Maryland computer consulting firm until he was called up, was so angry that he wrote an open letter to the President and Congress. "Never have I seen human resources so tragically misallocated," he declared. "Never have I experienced...
...making processes. Yet would Harvard's Corporation be any more flexible in the face of reasonable opposition from the community, and from students and faculty, to a policy-decision? Harvard's decentralized government and its community-minded Office for Civic and Governmental Affairs would probably never permit an apartheid-gymnasium issue to reach the Corporation in the first place. But in the face of general increase in student agitation, does Harvard need to adjust its constitution? Or does the current decision-making system provide adequate means for any community member to express his thoughts...
Columbia's students had reached the point where they recognized that polite and relevant protests got nowhere with the authorities; faculty and students alike had bristled over the Morningside gymnasium issue for years. When they were not listened to on a reasonable issue, the students resorted to force...