Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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." Humphrey replied that he understood Pickett...
TUESDAY, APRIL 23 -- Noon. At the sundial are 500 people ready to follow Mark Rudd (whom they don't particularly like because he always refers to President Kirk as "that shit-head"), into the Low Library administration building to conduct a demonstration against IDA and the gym and test Kirk's anti--indoor demonstration edict. There are around 100 counter-demonstrators. They are what Trustee Arthur Hays Sulzberger's newspaper refers to as "burly white youths" or "students of considerable athletic attainment"--jocks. Various deans and other father surrogates separate the two factions. Low Library is locked. For lack...
...have been noncommittal to vaguely against the gym, but now I see the site for the first time. There is excavation cutting across the whole park. It's really ugly. And there's a chain link fence all around the hole. I don't like fences anyway so I am one of the first to jump on it and tear it down. Enter the NYPD. One of them grabs the fence gate and tries to shut it. Some demonstrators grab him. I yell let that cop go, partly because I feel sorry for the cop and partly because I know...
...discuss it and vote no. Enter Mark Rudd, through the window. He says that 27 people can't exert any pressure, and the best thing we could do is leave and join a big sit-in in front of Hamilton. We say no, we're not leaving until the gym, IDA, and amnesty demands are met. Rudd goes out and comes back and asks us to leave again, and we say no again. He leaves to get reinforcements. Ranum leaves. Someone comes in to take pictures. We all cover our faces with different photographs of Grayson Kirk...
...beyond the bounds of limited, semi-secret mediation between faculty and students. To this end, we will ourselves initiate open hearings on all questions. Such hearings should have begun long ago to involve students who are actively concerned, whether partisans of the demonstrators or not. Many facts on the gym, I.D.A., University expansion, unionization of employees, the role in society must be brought clearly and meaningfully into the open