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Working Exits. At Kent State University, Humphrey received standing ovations from the 8,500 students and faculty members who packed the gymnasium. When about 60 Negro students and 100 antiwar youths walked out on him, the crowd booed them and cheered Humphrey's crack: "We were just testing the exits on both ends of the gym, and they work." But Humphrey turned serious when one Negro student, Robert Pickett, 20, rose to question him. Pickett said that he could not buy Humphrey's talk about the "American dream" because "for the black man it is the American nightmare...
...construction on the gymnasium in Morningside Heights...
...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...