Talk:1968 protests

This article has some questionable statements. I'm tagging this NPOV and will be editing it as I get a chance. Absentminded 23:21, 23 March 2007 (EDT)

Help me out. Do you have AIM? Adolph Lewisohn 23:23, 23 March 2007 (EDT)

Yes. your SN? Absentminded 23:26, 23 March 2007 (EDT)

Ask wikicu. Adolph Lewisohn 23:27, 23 March 2007 (EDT)

Some issues

• The Riverside Park stadium is mentioned but it doesn't seem to serve any purpose? What does it add to the article.

• This text: Unfortunately for Columbia, the city was still a decade away from routinely farming out public parks to private entities with the hope of cleaning them up for the public good. Time was not on Columbia's side, and the revolutionary mobilization of anti-institutionalism was to clash with what otherwise seemed like Columbia's giving back to the slums adjacent to Morningside Park. I have a real problem with this - when exactly did the city hand over parks to private entities for private use (which the gym would have been, even if only partially?)

• This text: Had Columbia built a gymnasium ten years earlier during the historically conservative fifties, it would have just escaped this student animosity. Instead, it was the sixties and anything that touched a larger issue would be placed under the microscope by radical groups demanding institutional accountability. It's pretty tendentious and belittling to the protesters to use this quote. Also, the implication that CU would have somehow gotten away with it in the fifties is very questionable.

• Aftermath of the protests and criticisms (whole section.) The ONLY place CU could build a gym was on campus? The only place it would have been able to build a 'big enough' gym was in Morningside park?

Feinstein 23:31, 26 March 2007 (EDT)