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Why Is N.Y.U. Forcing Protesters to Write Apology Letters?

The New York Times · GINIA BELLAFANTE · last updated
At one point during the demonstrations at Columbia University in 1968, protesters took the acting dean of the liberal arts college hostage. Barricading his office door with furniture, they kept Henry Simmons Coleman, a former Navy man, locked up for 26 hours.

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