Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long Challenge. Much of the blame falls on President Grayson Kirk, whose aloof, often bumbling administration has proved unresponsive to grievances that have long been festering on campus. Last month, when a group led by Students for a Democratic Society marched into Low Library to protest a university ban on indoor demonstrations, Kirk began disciplinary proceedings against six of the leaders. Feeling thus challenged, and long provoked, the SDS last week organized a defiant demonstration. The students demanded that the charges against the six be dropped, and also seized the occasion to protest the construction of a new off-campus...
...students concluded that the whites should leave -and at 6 o'clock the next morning they did. Left in control of the building, the Negroes eventually released their three hostages-26 hours after they were first taken captive. A number of the whites had meanwhile moved on President Kirk's office-he was not there at the time-in nearby Low Library. One group broke down a side door and brushed aside campus police to get into the office; others clambered through a window. They hurled Kirk's papers onto the floor, smoked his cigars, pasted...
Victory Claim. Obviously chary of capitulating to the demonstrators, Columbia officials seemed equally reluctant to regain control of their university. The students refused to quit their posts without a promise of general amnesty for all demonstrators-a condition that President 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...
Hyman's plan, which would leave the administration menial tasks, is not likely to be well received by the faculty. Several hundred faculty members appear willing to see Kirk leave, but many express their faith in David B. Truman, university vice-president and Kirk's heir apparent...
...resignation of President Grayson Kirk and Vice President David Truman...