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...climbed out at 6:30 a.m. while the police were forming a ring around the building. They had torn down the barricade; some chairs were wrecked; solid doors had been chopped through; they had completely screwed up a Xerox machine...
...years, they have cooperated by using the same tennis courts and football fields, sharing their geology and astronomy departments, even arranging class hours so that students could attend courses at both schools. Back in the 1940s, symbolically enough, the sturdy Cyclone fence that long separated the two campuses was torn down and replaced by a less conspicuous steel chain -and even that stands today only in spots...
...community leaders and protesting students, the gym has become the symbol of what they see as a land-gobbling university. Columbia has acquired over 100 buildings in recent years in the area of the campus. The University has evicted tenants and torn down buildings to make way for Columbia classrooms and dormitories...
...final act makes that abundantly clear, after the unanticipated arrival of the party thrower's former college roommate. The newcomer, who is sexually "straight," is torn between revulsion and a hypnotized curiosity, and cannot bring himself to leave. A savage game begins, rather too patly adapted from the "Get the Guests" scene in Albee's Virginia Woolf, called "Affairs of the Heart." Each player must say "I love you" over the telephone to the person he has most dearly loved in his life. All drunk by now, the partygoers guzzle this witch's brew of truth...
Even if the projected number of seniors moves into apartments next year, the dormitories will probably still be crowded, a Residence Office spokesman said yesterday. Three North House off-campus houses--Slater, Warner, and Edmands--will be torn down next year to provide land for the new fourth House...