Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been trying to save five oak trees in front of the football stadium across the street. But the trees had already been bulldozed- which was to be expected, since they were in the way of the stadium expansion. The football stadium presently seats 65,000 persons, but Frank Erwin, chairman of the Board of Regents, had led a campaign to build a new deck of 14,000 seats. A lot of people here thought one of the last things this university needed was 14,000 more football seats and an extension of that concrete monstrosity to twice its present height...
...case, Erwin has never been liked. He has always seemed more interested in the football team than in the rest of the university. Two years ago he touched off a furor when at Gov, Connally's birthday party in the University of Texas gym he publicly called peace demonstrators a "bunch of dirty nothings" that had no placate on the campus. From time to time, he has handed down other, similar bits of wisdom...
Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. I found a crowd of several hundred students clustered around Waller Creek. Erwin was there with about 50 campus cops and a bulldozer. The local Sierra Club, at the instigation of some professors who were members of it, was trying to get a temporary injunction to stop the university from acting until it could look at the alternatives. For some reason, they weren't going to be able to get the injunction until about 10 a.m., but the university had sort of indicated that it would only clear away brush until 10 a.m. (You always...
...Erwin had decided, however, that he had better push down the trees before the injunction went into effect. He was ready at 9 a.m. to attack the trees. Unfortunately for Erwin, a lot of the university shared my feelings about the trees. So there were already hundreds of students out by the creek. A big group had had the guts to climb up in the trees before the cops arrived. A tree flag was flying from the tallest cypress...
ABOUT the time I arrived, Erwin called in an additional force of approximately 30 helmeted Austin police with clubs, 25 state troopers, and a hook-and-ladder fire truck that could reach the tree people. Feeling secure with his 100 cops, Erwin decided it was time to start. He sent the cops in with orders to "arrest everybody you need to; once the trees are cut down, there won't be anything to protest." (This is an interesting statement all by itself- there are all sorts of things you can do with it: "Go ahead and kill all the Vietnamese...