CUNY officials said the early-college high school plan called for the students to complete two years of college work in the time they would ordinarily finish high school, earning associate's degrees.
One assignment at St. Matthias this week called for the students to write an essay praising the team they didn't favor, a task that produced some feats of imaginative flexibility.
The design assignment called for the students to include a sanctuary (600 square feet), a nave with seats for the congregation (1,350 square feet) and a choir and organ area (550 square feet), as well as offices, meeting rooms, a reception area and bathrooms.
The milder among them called for the student-players to be expelled.
At Princeton this week, students voted down, 1,014 to 699, a Princeton Committee on Palestine referendum calling for the student government to ask the university's dining services for "an alternative brand of hummus in addition to Sabra".
Among iTurning Point the defunding of progressive organizations on campus, the implementation of "free speech" policies eliminating barriers to hate speech, and the blocking of all campus "boycott, divestment and sanctions" movements.
The United Nations and the European Union had also joined the growing list of those calling for the students' release.
The tall and wiry Shinasi Rama from Shkoder, 31 years old, held the hardest line, later calling for the students' "blood on the square" to see the revolution through.
Last month, for example, the Third Way, a research organization aligned with centrist Democrats, called for the federal student loan program to be extended to adults seeking new skills to climb the occupational ladder.
Her prayers called for the safety of students and an end to gun violence, according to the Concord Monitor.
