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  Long Island University was chartered by the New York State Education Department in 1926 in Brooklyn, N.Y., as a nonsectarian, coeducational, privately supported university established to provide "effective and moderately priced education" to people from "all walks of life."

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  University Hall, the first building owned by Long Island University in Brooklyn, was a converted factory located at 300 Pearl Street.

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  In 1929, the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy formally affiliated itself with Long Island University. That same year, it moved to 600 Lafayette Avenue.

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  In 1931, Lillian Huriash Benowitz walked across the stage as the first of 92 people to receive a diploma at Long Island University’s inaugural commencement exercises.

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  Known as “Mr. Basketball,” legendary coach Clair Bee took the reins of Long Island University’s basketball program in 1931, building it into a national powerhouse.

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  The Brooklyn Paramount Theater, originally designed to show “talking pictures” and later the site of Alan Freed’s rock “n roll shows, was purchased by the Campus in 1950 and was eventually converted into the Brooklyn Campus Metcalfe Building. Many of the Theatre’s architectural details and its Mighty Wurlitzer organ have been preserved.

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  Throughout its history, the Brooklyn Campus has cultivated a diverse faculty, hiring women and minorities for teaching positions before many other institutions did. In the ’50s, female faculty members in the sciences were a rarity, so the appointment of one to the Brooklyn Campus’ Biology Department prompted The Herald Tribune to run this headline story.

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  The Brooklyn Campus boasts a long tradition of social consciousness and community activism. Here, students raise money to rebuild a church in Birmingham, Ala., that had been bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1963.

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