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TUESDAY, APRIL 23 -- Noon. At the sundial are 500 people ready to follow Mark Rudd (whom they don't particularly like because he always refers to President Kirk as "that shit-head"), into the Low Library administration building to conduct a demonstration against IDA and the gym and test Kirk's anti--indoor demonstration edict. There are around 100 counter-demonstrators. They are what Trustee Arthur Hays Sulzberger's newspaper refers to as "burly white youths" or "students of considerable athletic attainment"--jocks. Various deans and other father surrogates separate the two factions. Low Library is locked. For lack...
...have been noncommittal to vaguely against the gym, but now I see the site for the first time. There is excavation cutting across the whole park. It's really ugly. And there's a chain link fence all around the hole. I don't like fences anyway so I am one of the first to jump on it and tear it down. Enter the NYPD. One of them grabs the fence gate and tries to shut it. Some demonstrators grab him. I yell let that cop go, partly because I feel sorry for the cop and partly because I know...
...preventing a police invasion of student held buildings. We have been presenting the political position outlined above to the Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on the assumption that they had some power to mediate. It has been the opinion of their negotiators that resolving the substantive issues of the gym and I.D.A. would present no problem, if we could find some way to "get around" the question of amnesty...
...statement of the Trustees shows us that this Ad Hoc Committee is talking in a vacuum. The Trustees called for a temporary halt in gym construction as a favor to the mayor, not in response to the needs of the community. I.D.A. is not mentioned at all. The faculty has made no attempt to demand the power to negotiate, or the power to control the police. This indicates that they fail to recognize what is clear to everyone else: the Administration has been thoroughly discredited. At the same time that the Faculty has been claiming they were "mediating" in good...
...beyond the bounds of limited, semi-secret mediation between faculty and students. To this end, we will ourselves initiate open hearings on all questions. Such hearings should have begun long ago to involve students who are actively concerned, whether partisans of the demonstrators or not. Many facts on the gym, I.D.A., University expansion, unionization of employees, the role in society must be brought clearly and meaningfully into the open