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 *The students hated him because... well they hated establishment authority figures- it was the 60s, after all.
-*The faculty hated him because, thanks to recurring budget woes, the university grossly underpaid its employees in relation to peer institutions during his tenure.
+*The faculty hated him because, thanks to recurring budget woes, the university grossly underpaid its employees in relation to peer institutions during his tenure. Many also disliked the fact that Kirk was a supporter of [[w:McCarthyism|McCarthyism]] who believed that communists were "unfit to teach" and welcomed probes of the faculty's political beliefs.
 *The neighborhood hated him because... well they really just hated Columbia, and he was just a stand in for the institution. Though it didn't help that Kirk had proposed a never-completed expansion that would have wiped out half of [[Morningside Heights]].

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 [[Category:Provosts|Kirk, Grayson]]
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-[[Alexander Hamilton Medal recipients|Kirk]]
+[[Category:Alexander Hamilton Medal recipients|Kirk]]

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 '''Grayson Kirk''' (October 12, 1903 – November 21, 1997) had the misfortune of becoming the 14th [[University President]] after [[Dwight Eisenhower]] set off for [[w:White House|greener pastures]], and thus of later enduring the [[1968 protests]]. Previously, Kirk had served as [[Provost]]. Everyone hated him:
 *The students hated him because... well they hated establishment authority figures- it was the 60s, after all.
 *The faculty hated him because, thanks to recurring budget woes, the university grossly underpaid its employees in relation to peer institutions during his tenure.
 *The civil rights movement hated him because he declined to open up a [[Lydia C. Roberts Graduate and Traveling Fellowships|racially restrictive fellowship program]] to all applicants.
-Of course it didn't help that Columbia had arguably been drifting through the two decades before his tenure - through the great depression and WWII, through President Butler's late tenure senility, through the three years without a permanent president while the [[trustees]] kept the seat warm for [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], and through Eisenhower's own absentee presidency while he served as Supreme Allied Commander NATO, and then ran for President of the United States. By 1954, Kirk was left to preside over the nation's "most complexly organized university."[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19540321&id=3F5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HTcNAAAAIBAJ&pg=789,3208225]
+Of course it also didn't help that Columbia had arguably been drifting through the two decades before his tenure - through the great depression and WWII, through President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]]'s late tenure senility, through the three years without a permanent president while the [[trustees]] kept the seat warm for [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], and through Eisenhower's own absentee presidency while he served as Supreme Allied Commander NATO, and then ran for President of the United States. By 1954, Kirk was left to preside over the nation's "most complexly organized university."<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19540321&id=3F5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HTcNAAAAIBAJ&pg=789,3208225]</ref>
 After all the stress of keeping up appearances, trying to manage the University's [[Campaign for Columbia (1966)|first major fundraising campaign]] and a massive physical expansion, combined with the scandals like the the University's harebrained involvement in the [[The Strickman Filter|Strickman Filter]] controversy, the [[1968 protests]] finally broke him and led to his resignation. Kirk is therefore perhaps indirectly responsible for the decades of alumni apathy that followed (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.
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 {{succession|preceded=[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]|succeeded=[[Andrew W. Cordier]]|office=President of Columbia University|years=[[1953]]-[[1968]]}}
 [[Category:University presidents|Kirk, Grayson]]
 [[Category:Provosts|Kirk, Grayson]]
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 [[Image:GraysonKirk.gif|thumb|Grayson Kirk]]
 '''Grayson Kirk''' had the misfortune of becoming the 14th [[University President]] after [[Dwight Eisenhower]] set off for [[w:White House|greener pastures]], and thus of later enduring the [[1968 protests]]. Previously, Kirk had served as [[Provost]]. Everyone hated him:
 *The neighorhood hated him because... well they really just hated Columbia, and he was just a stand in for the institution. It didn't help that Kirk had proposed a never-completed expansion that would have wiped out half of [[Morningside Heights]].

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	The faculty hated him because, thanks to recurring budget woes, the university grossly underpaid its employees in relation to peer institutions during his tenure.		The faculty hated him because, thanks to recurring budget woes, the university grossly underpaid its employees in relation to peer institutions during his tenure.
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		+	The civil rights movement hated him because he declined to open up a [[Lydia C. Roberts Graduate and Traveling Fellowships\|racially restrictive fellowship program]] to all applicants.

	Of course it didn't help that Columbia had arguably been drifting through the two decades before his tenure - through the great depression and WWII, through President Butler's late tenure senility, through the three years without a permanent president while the [[trustees]] kept the seat warm for [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], and through Eisenhower's own absentee presidency while he served as Supreme Allied Commander NATO, and then ran for President of the United States. By 1954, Kirk was left to preside over the nation's "most complexly organized university."[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19540321&id=3F5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HTcNAAAAIBAJ&pg=789,3208225]		Of course it didn't help that Columbia had arguably been drifting through the two decades before his tenure - through the great depression and WWII, through President Butler's late tenure senility, through the three years without a permanent president while the [[trustees]] kept the seat warm for [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], and through Eisenhower's own absentee presidency while he served as Supreme Allied Commander NATO, and then ran for President of the United States. By 1954, Kirk was left to preside over the nation's "most complexly organized university."[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19540321&id=3F5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HTcNAAAAIBAJ&pg=789,3208225]

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 [[Image:GraysonKirk.gif|thumb|Grayson Kirk]]
-'''Grayson Kirk''' had the misfortune of becoming the 14th [[University President]] after [[Dwight Eisenhower]] set off for greener pastures, later enduring the [[1968 protests]]. Previously, Kirk had served as [[Provost]].
+'''Grayson Kirk''' had the misfortune of becoming the 14th [[University President]] after [[Dwight Eisenhower]] set off for greener pastures, and thus of later enduring the [[1968 protests]]. Previously, Kirk had served as [[Provost]].
 The neighorhood hated him because... well they really just hated Columbia, and he was just a stand in for the institution. It didn't help that Kirk had proposed a never-completed expansion that would have wiped out half of [[Morningside Heights]].
-The students hated him because... well they hated establishment authority figures- it was the 60's after all. The faculty hated him because the university grossly underpaid its employees in relation to peer institutions during his tenure.
+The students hated him because... well they hated establishment authority figures- it was the 60s, after all. The faculty hated him because the university grossly underpaid its employees in relation to peer institutions during his tenure.
-The stress of the University's harebrained involvement in the [[The Strickman Filter|Strickman Filter]] and the [[1968 protests]] led to his resignation. Kirk is perhaps indirectly responsible for the decades of alumni apathy that followed (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.
+The stress of the University's harebrained involvement in the [[The Strickman Filter|Strickman Filter]] controversy and the [[1968 protests]] led to his resignation. Kirk is perhaps indirectly responsible for the decades of alumni apathy that followed (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.
 {{succession|office=[[Provost]]|years=[[1949]]-[[1953]]|preceded=[[Albert C. Jacobs]]|succeeded=[[John A. Krout]]}}

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