Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students at Columbia continued demonstrating, and would not stop until they were granted total amnesty, because even if the cool stewardess did read the New York Times, she probably still wouldn't know what was happening. If they had given up demonstrating, they would be publicly admitting their own guilt and they would have lost their chance to force the Times to report the story from a different view-point. They would do so only if the students succeeded in forcing the administration to meet their demands and in winning the support of the respectable Columbia faculty...
...important of all, of course, is that Columbia proved that students, without help from the delicate political immunity that accompanies Northern black demonstrations around the time of Dr. King's death, occupy a position of strength within the University. With the right technique, students can rally enough power to stop the University. Whether this is also enough power to change it remains in doubt. This is the third stage of the Columbia demonstration, student activism to force constructive and permanent change. The rationale for prolonging the demonstration before the violence, and the movement toward student solidarity after the violence...
...right of these peoples, like us, to determine their own lives. We do not want students to take over the university's function of slumlord and expropriator of park lands in Harlem and Morningside Heights. Our demands around the gym were not intended only or even primarily to stop a particular injustice, but to support the right of the people of these communities to exercise control over the use of their neighborhoods...
...thus ask the Faculty Ad Hoc Committee to stop trying to perform a mediating function they cannot carry out. Instead, we think they should constitute themselves as the political body that in fact they are--and take a political position in favor of our six demands, including amnesty. The Faculty Ad Hoc Committee has recognized, as we have recognized, the fruitlessness of negotiations under the present circumstances. They independently broke off negotiations with us after last night's session. Professor Westin, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, told us that the committee would now attempt to put forth an independent...
During the day, 25-40 special groups also held meetings. The groups ranged from The Alumnae Committee for Fair Play to Strikers to the Committee for the Defense of Property Rights, which claimed it had sold more than 700 "Stop SDS On Campus" buttons in the last week...