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...decision to call in the police, said Columbia President Grayson Kirk, was "the most painful one I have ever made." Although the need for some drastic action to end the impasse was due partly to Kirk's own vacillation in handling the student protests, he had plenty of provocation to call in the police. For one thing, the strike had expanded well beyond its initial aims getting the university to cancel plans for a gymnasium in nearby Morningside Park and drop its affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Govern ment-supported research center...
...left Students for a Democratic Society and the all-Negro Student Afro-American Society-seemed far more interested in a bloody confrontation with the ad ministration than in any meaningful negotiations. They demanded a complete surrender on all points at issue, including amnesty for all participants in the rebellion. Kirk refused, on the ground that this would mean a complete abdication of all disciplinary authority...
...would not comment specifically on Kirk's decision to call the police in at Columbia, because he said that he only knows what he has read in the papers...
...explore. The temptation to loot is tremendous, middle-class morality notwithstanding, but there is no looting. I am particularly attracted by a framed diploma from American Airlines declaring Grayson Kirk...
...also mentioned that Harvard's administration long ago delegated academic and disciplinary authority to faculty members. Columbia president Grayson Kirk and his board of trustees retain control over student discipline...