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Student Occupation
On May 4th, 1970, several groups of "strikers" occupied the Loeb Student Center. The following day, strike groups also took over Warren Weaver Hall and Kimball Hall, the former building containing a $3.5 million dollar computer owned by the Atomic Energy Commission and leased by NYU. The "liberated" buildings became "Strike Student Centers" or "Communes," and a strike coordinating committee set forth its demands to the University. Holding the computer as a hostage, the strikers demanded ransom money of $100,000 from the University to be used as bail money for imprisoned Black Panthers. While NYU President Hester attempted to obtain a court injunction to remove the strikers as quickly as possible, the students, in control of the University Print Shop in Kimball Hall, printed and distributed manifestoes calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam and enjoining fellow NYU students to join their "injunction party" and "make revolutionary love in the streets." Strikers evacuated Warren Weaver Hall on May 7, but set off the fuse to a bomb device before departing. University staff managed to douse the fuse just seconds before it would have destroyed the computer. After 17 days of high tension, University officials succeeded in removing the strikers from all occupied buildings.
The Office of Global Programs develops and supports international academic initiatives in New York and abroad for the benefit of faculty research and undergraduate and graduate education. The office advises and oversees centers and institutes at Washington Square with an international focus, and manages the academic and administrative operations of NYU's Global Sites in Accra, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Prague and Shanghai.
Housed within the Office of the Provost, Global Programs is committed to increasing opportunities for faculty research and teaching at the Global Sites, expanding study abroad opportunities and participation rates among students at all degree levels, promoting geographic, cultural and academic diversity by identifying and developing new international programs, and providing support to faculty for scholarly collaborations, conferences, colloquiums and artistic endeavors abroad. The office also actively encourages and sponsors cross-school and global collaborations among NYU departments and scholars.
The Office of Global Programs
c/o Vice Provost for Globalization and Multicultural Affairs
New York University
Office of the Provost
70 Washington Square South, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Email: global.programs@nyu.edu