coats, and hair; handcuffed them; and pushed the limp students down the circular stairs. One pair of reluctant students was hit by a policeman with his handcuffs to hasten their movement, another pair was ki<:ked by a plainclothesman down several stairs; a third abrasive pair was dragged down one Bight of stairs by their feet, their bottomsides bouncing down the marble staircase. The whole building was cleared in just 20 minutes. Throughout, nearly all the police appeared casual and acted as if the removal operation were routine. "These kids need to be .= spanked," said one cop. Avery had a mere 42 students, only 18 of whom ~ were archi tecture studen ts. <:'" Shortly after the police appeared Leftist students and young faculty, singing, with arms locked, in a cordon around the outside Avery, another contingent apentrance to Fayerweather Hall in an attempt to block police removal of the rebels. peared outside Fayerweather. There were about 150 uniformed police and 20 plainclothesmen, who had come from the 30th precinct on 152nd Street, led by Inspector Casimir Krasewski. arms. Several of these active resisters "We Shall Overcome." Behind the po- The cops strolled almost lazily up to were dragged out by their long hairdos, lice, on the brick walks were about 900 the entrance in a tactic designed to a painful process. Two girls had to be spectators, both booing and shouting maintain calm. Leonard DeFiore, ascarried out by the anns and legs. Once, obscenities and cheering and applaud- sistant director of Engineering School a plainclothesman kicked one of the ac- ing for the police. It made the bullhorn admissions, read the University's warntive resisters. There were no beatings warnings hard for the students in the ing, which was followed by a police or clubbings inside Low, as some rebels buildings to hear. warning. No one came out. There was alleged the next day, but there was The police removed the 30 persons singing coming from inside the buildconsiderable manhandling. A police- in front of the door by throwing them ing. A crowd of perhaps 400 spectaman defended this action, "When the aside, then stood there for 10 minutes tors stood on the grass in the quadkids go limp and refuse to budge or while the special squad cut through the rangle. In front of the two doors were be touched, all you can do is carry them heavy chains with which the students several dozen students and some faculout individually or push and drag had locked the door. ome of the police ty members, many of whom had locked them. To carry them out separately appeared slightly nervous because of arms. To get through the doors the powould have required three times the the unexpectedly large, partly hostile lice had to physically remove the rigid force we had at the time, and would crowd pushing in on them. 'When the phalanx of sympathizers. They did, have taken half the night. We had to do doors opened, Inspector James Kelly pulling and shoving them out of the it. Not one student was seriously hurt told the police to "Go to the top floor way and throwing them down on the inside [Low]." The Low revolutionar- first and work down, quickly."The cops grass quadrangle nearby. The police ies were gathered in the center of Low found a few students in the foyer, and spent another 10 minutes opening the Rotunda and handcuffed preparatory several officers pulled them outside im- door and removing the furniture barrito going out to the police buses. Three mediately. The rcst of the force raced cades in front of the northernmost door girls complained that their handcuffs up to the sixth, and top, floor, found no- facing west. were too tight, whereupon the police body; then ran down to the fifth Boor The police went up the wide marble loosened them promptly. where there were about 15 students stairway to the seventh, and top, Boor. Avery, the home of the Graduate who had decided to walk out peaceful- They searched each room, but found School of Architecture, was the first ly. They were promptly escorted down no one. No students were on the sixth, building that the police had to enter to the front door. On the fourth Hoar fifth, or fourth Boors either. On the from the front, the first part of the bust were the 20 or so students who had de- third Boor, the main entrance floor, that was visible to many of the 1,500 cided on passive resistance. They were they confronted two groups of stuspectators on campus. At 3:00 a.m. barricaded behind the 12-foot-Iong dents: a band of nearly 70 that were about 100 uniformed police, 20 plains- large wood-and-cork display struc- sitting down singing "'We Shall Overclothesmen, and a small special squad tures. The protestors were seated and come" in the 5 x 40-foot corridor, and to break down doors, appeared in front singing, and refused the police orders a larger cluster of about 130 students of Avery. In front of them were 30 stu- to leave. The police, acting with great standing at the north end of the hall dents and several instructors singing haste, pulled them up by the shirts, and on the stairs down to the second
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