Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meantime, assorted student protests roiled Belgium, Britain, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain and West Germany. Out went the U.S. tradition of universities policing adolescents in loco parentis. At Columbia, student rebels captured the campus, destroyed a tottering adult empire (last week President Grayson Kirk resigned), and inspired more demonstrations in France, where once-passive students turned anarchist and incited a nationwide general strike that nearly toppled
Remote Powers. Despite the need to ease tension on the campus, the administration of President Grayson Kirk has concentrated on defining new procedures for handling discipline and demonstrations. Kirk has also called in a major Manhattan public relations agency to advise the university-a move that smacks more of image building than real change. His only concrete concession to reform so far has been the appointment of Associate English Professor Carl F. Hovde as new Dean of Columbia College. Hovde is an admirer of student activists and welcomes the fact that the spring rebellion shook the place up. Most students...
...only detailed plan offered so far this summer has come from the university's Alumni Federation, which expressed "unreserved pride" in Kirk, called for stern limits on protests and stronger student government. It also proposed the creation of a 15-man board of visitors to check out complaints about the operation of each of the university's 15 schools. The boards would include trustee-appointed alumni, students, administrators and outside specialists. But Kirk is cool even to that modest proposal...
...final form of proposals for change. It is expected to suggest the creation of a faculty senate, a more representative student assembly, and a "collegium" composed of students, faculty, administrators and neighborhood groups. But other faculty members contend that the only way to ease campus antagonisms is to kick Kirk upstairs to a fund-raising post. They also urge the dismissal of criminal charges pending against some 700 protesters, arrested for criminal trespass and resisting arrest. Many of them are slated for trial in September. If such pacifying moves are not made in the next few weeks, argues one committee...
...that administrators will react harshly, thus generating sympathy for the militants. Others have proposed more subtie harassments, such as gumming up registration by filing wrong information on computer cards. In any case, the administration is preparing for the worst. Last week workmen were installing thick, rockproof Plexiglas windows in Kirk's Low Library office...