The YMCA
During its founding moments, students didn’t have much to protest, but student groups, such as the campus’ YMCA, gave University of Minnesota students a place to come together. The YMCA was a foundation created in response to unhealthy social conditions arising in big cities at the end of the Industrial Revolution.1
Students at the YMCA service counter.
History of Student Activism on Campus
Center Block Building in Gateway Park, location of the first Minneapolis YMCA rooms as of 1866.