Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What occurred after the rally, however, was totally unexpected. Following the final speaker-- the university chaplain--students stormed the steps to College Hall and marched into the building. In a spontaneous burst of activity, a rally had turned itself into a sit-in, and the students said they meant business...
...midst of the confusion, students--vowing to stay all night if necessary--said they were "sick of decisions being made without student input." But no one there was counting on three more days of a sit...
Meeting with provost Eliot Stellar, the students demanded that President Martin Meyerson return from his vacation in Barbados and sit down to negotiate with them. This, the first of their demands, was promptly met, and Meyerson flew in the next night to being the talks...
...took over another building. This building--the Franklin building--served as the headquarters for the Black Student League (BSL), and the negotiators at College Hall incorporated the minority demands into the other negotiations. The BSL emphasized that the Franklin take-over was undertaken in solidarity with the College Hall sit-in, and was not a "minorities-only" move...
...Administrators, though initially hesitant, proved cooperative and receptive to student ideas as the talks proceeded. Meyerson, after returning to the school from Barbados, told students, "This gives me a tremendous sense of exhilaration even though many of you may be furious with me. You have to give it [the sit-in] your priority. It's more than a one-night stand. We're in it together...