The Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center, a student and community space on the City College of New York campus, was shut down without notice yesterday. The college intends to appropriate the space for an expansion of its Career and Professional Development Institute.
The Morales/Shakur Center is housed on the third floor of the CCNY North Academic Center (NAC). It was created in 1989 as part of a negotiated agreement between students and administrators after an activist takeover of that building.
According to a report from The Meridian, the Lehman College student newspaper, the Morales/Shakur Center was cleared out by campus police yesterday morning. The entire NAC, including the CCNY campus library, was locked down during the eviction, and one alumnus who attempted to intervene was arrested as the officers removed the contents of the space.
In a videotaped interview yesterday afternoon, Center director and CCNY
