Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia University has been governed undemocratically. An administration responsible only to the trustees has made decisions that deeply affect students, faculty and the community. It has expropriated a neighborhood park to build a gym. It has participated through I.D.A. in the suppression of self-determination throughout the world. It has formulated rules and disciplined students arbitrarily and for the purpose of suppressing justified protest. The actions of the administration in the present crisis have exposed it to students and faculty as the anti-democratic and irresponsible body it has always been...
...wrold. Implicit in our I.D.A. demand is the right of these peoples, like us, to determine their own lives. We do not want students to take over the university's function of slumlord and expropriator of park lands in Harlem and Morningside Heights. Our demands around the gym were not intended only or even primarily to stop a particular injustice, but to support the right of the people of these communities to exercise control over the use of their neighborhoods...
...preventing a police invasion of student held buildings. We have been presenting the political position outlined above to the Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on the assumption that they had some power to mediate. It has been the opinion of their negotiators that resolving the substantive issues of the gym and I.D.A. would present no problem, if we could find some way to "get around" the question of amnesty...
...statement of the Trustees shows us that this Ad Hoc Committee is talking in a vacuum. The Trustees called for a temporary halt in gym construction as a favor to the mayor, not in response to the needs of the community. I.D.A. is not mentioned at all. The faculty has made no attempt to demand the power to negotiate, or the power to control the police. This indicates that they fail to recognize what is clear to everyone else: the Administration has been thoroughly discredited. At the same time that the Faculty has been claiming they were "mediating" in good...
...Coleman. After telling his visitors that he had "no intention of meeting any demands under a situation such as this," Coleman went into his office with two other school officials. Blocking Coleman's door, the demonstrators pasted up photos of Lenin and Che Guevara, and chanted "Racist gym must go." As night came, the demonstrators were still there-and Coleman and his friends casually played cards...