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GSU Denied Room for Meeting

We, the members of the Graduate Student Union, a chartered
student organization at the Graduate Center for 3 years have had our
right to assemble at the Graduate Center unjustly denied. Yesterday
at 4:00 pm, 24 hours before our scheduled event, Provost Geoffrey
Marshall, on orders from CUNY Chief Counsel David Rigney,
cancelled our room reservation in Room 1700 and refused us access
to all Graduate Center facilities. This meeting, 6 months in the plan-
ning stage and costing $2500.00 of student government funds allo-
cated last fall by the Doctoral Student Council, is for the purpose of
discussing the conditions of Graduate Assistants and adjunct lecturers
within the City University. We feel that by this action the admini-
stration has shown cynical contempt for the rights of the students and
for the right of free speech. We are asking for your support. We will
meet in roon>x700 as planned. We feel that the rights of part-timers
are overlooked by the Professional Staff Congress and we demand the
right to discuss this issue. Please join us.

Oth loor

The Graduate School and University Center
of The City University of New York

Otfice of the Associate Provost for Academic Alfairs / Box 545
Graduate Center: 33 West 42 Street, New York, N.Y. 10036-8099
212 790-4486

March 13, 1986

MEMORANDUM

TO: The Graduate Student Union

FROM: Geoffrey Marshall ay
Associate Provost fo
Academic Affairs

The purpose of this memorandum ‘s to advise you that permission is
withdrawn from the Graduate Student Union to use Room 1700 on
Friday, March 14, 1986 from 4:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

The reason permission to use the room is withdrawn is because the
activity for which the Graduate Student Union wishes to use the roor
as set forth in an undated memorandum addressed "To Our Fellow
Part-Timers" is not appropriate to the authorized use of Graduate
Center facilities by the Graduate Student Union.