Word: offer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia University's board of trustees last night said that it had received no legitimate offer to negotiate from student strikers and would make no comment on prospects for talks...
...Columbia Spectator, the university daily, said last night that it had contacted spokesmen for the trustees, who said that the board had not received any official offer to talk from the Student Strike Coordinating Committee...
...York Times reported yesterday that Mark Rudd, spokesman for the strikers and head of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, had made the offer because only the board "has the power" to arrange a settlement...
...students who are supporting the demonstrators' demands today were all for sicking the police on them before the violence. The main obstacle to reconciliation in the final days before the violence was the demonstrators' insistence on total amnesty. According to the Times, they even refused the administration's offer to let them off with "just a warning." From the viewpoint of the Majority Coalition, whose claim to speak for most Columbia students could not be disputed, the rebels' position seemed totally unjustifiable. It was the old story of a minority trying to impose its will on the majority, bringing memories...
Dunphy said he received President Pusey's letter notifying him of the release of the Business School site Wednesday, too late to send it to Tuesday' night's School Committee meeting. He said he would "notify" the Committee of Harvard's offer, but without recommending whether they should accept the site...