Word: anti-rotc
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...Spring 1969, President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey decided to defy the Faculty's overwhelming anti-ROTC vote. The consequences included a building occupation and a brutal police bust leading to 250 arrests and dozens of injuries...
...Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, students were still protesting the use of dogs and tear gas and the arrest of 170 anti-ROTC demonstrators the week before. Last week the protesters used a new tactic. By flushing toilets and turning on showers and faucets at the same time, they ran off 5,000,000 gallons of water and temporarily deprived the whole town (7,500 residents and 11,500 students) of its water supply...
...Washington University in St. Louis last month, an early-morning clash between police and anti-ROTC demonstrators helped to prompt what may be the nation's first federal-grand-jury investigation of a campus protest. The jury, which last week heard testimony from faculty, students and newsmen, is trying to determine whether the protesters violated the civil rights of ROTC students. The jurors will also consider whether a fire that leveled the university's small Army ROTC building in February violated a federal law that protects national defense installations...
...yesterday. police had charged the Old Union building, which a group of students were occupying in an anti-ROTC protest. Police arrested 22 demonstrators, but about 100 escaped and rampaged through the campus breaking windows and setting minor fires...
...also consciously avoided adding ancillary demands to its original list of eleven. Although Michigan earlier this year had a large anti-ROTC demonstration leading to the loss of credit for ROTC courses. BAM did not add any anti-ROTC demands to its list. BAM spokesmen explained that they were careful to avoid an anarchist situation, such as happened at San Francisco State, where the administration did not know who to work with because of the profusion of student groups, demands, and voices...