t was willing to put their safety and records on the line, and it was also a higher level of violence that the police were willing resort to in order to end the dispute.
             The academic calendar of 1967-68 was highlighted by heightened unrest stemming from members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Students Afro-American Society (SAS) (Dohrn 1). The protests included a Naval Reserve Officers ceremony in May 1965 where students blockaded the entrance of the Low Library, where it took place (Crisis 63). There were protests in November of 1966 and in February of 1967 where students protested CIA recruiters who had come to campus to conduct some interviews (Crisis 64). In April 1967 some students were protesting Marine recruiters at the campus. The first day included a violent backlash between protestors and conservative students. The next day there were protests still occurring at the Marine recruitment accompanied by a protest of the protesters who would not allow people the right to recruit (Crisis 67). A sit-in took place at Dodge Hall in February 1968 to protest recruiters from Dow Chemical, a manufacturer of napalm (Crisis 69). What, to the students' dismay, had resulted, was a university stronghold against protests in campus buildings. These actions culminated in April when members and supporters of these two groups occupied five campus buildings (May 1).
             The issues at hand included the plan to build a gymnasium in a park between the campus on Morningside Heights and Harlem (Isserman 229). The gym would exploit the black construction workers and black employees who would facilitate its construction and maintenance. Harlem residents, however, would have no access to it. What was at the heart of this issue was the fact that students believed that the university was exploiting the poor black neighborhoods of Harlem that surrounded the campus (May 1). Students thought of Columbia University a...