Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Outrage. Unquestionably, the school has calmed down; the campus police force has been beefed up from 30 men to 88, and most of the hard-core radicals have left school anyway. There have been no political rallies this year. Kent's radicals came to the movement late in the game, and like Dostoevsky's young radicals in The Possessed, they were shocked by their first encounter with political reality. Says Dr. Edward Crosby, director of the Institute for African American Affairs: "The students had all been playing roles. They never expected violence...
...crisp November afternoon, Kent State University resembles any other thriving Midwestern campus. Hirsute young men and their long-haired girl friends, identically dressed in blue jeans and peacoats, stroll hand in hand across a snow-covered reach of lawn. Their path is interrupted by bulldozed mud trails, wire fences and spools of cable, the debris of new campus construction...
...Kent State today is nothing like Oberlin-or even Kent State, 1969. The bloody afternoon of May 4 ensured that the campus would not be the same for years to come. Passers-by stop at the sculpture outside Taylor Hall, insert a little finger in a clean bullet hole and quietly move on. In general there is a sense of listlessness on the campus, coupled with a lingering frustration over the handling of what the students consider to have been a massacre. Last August the office of Attorney General John Mitchell dropped further federal investigation of the incident. Two nonradical...
Drastic Cuts. Kent's new president, Glenn A. Olds, 50, accompanied the students to Washington. He was named to replace Dr. Robert I. White, who retired after the tragedy and is presently touring Kent State exchange programs abroad. Olds is past dean of international studies and world affairs for the State
Students have sporadically contributed to a Kent 25 defense fund, but most of the campus has turned toward passivity. One student concedes: "Kent State is now a household word. But Kent State as a symbol is more important to other universities than it is to itself." Adds Bill Arthrell, one of the 25 indicted: "You can't maintain your outrage for a year. Now everyone has his own trip: dope, work or the counterculture." Jerry Lewis, a sociology professor, perhaps best characterizes the prevailing mood: "As much as we want justice, we're all tired. Many...