Grayson Kirk

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Grayson Kirk had the misfortune of being University President during the 1968 protests. The community hated him because he wanted to build a segregated gymnasium on Morningside Park. The students hated him because he happily turned over student rolls to the defense department for drafting purposes. The faculty hated him because the university grossly underpaid its employees in relation to peer institutions during his tenure.

Kirk is perhaps indirectly responsible for decades of alumni apathy (including, at one point, the serious thought of closing the school due to a lack of funding) and the affirmation of the university as a left-wing jihadist institution, much like the University of Havana.