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Deborah L. Friedson '72 expressed the feelings of most students: "Look what happened after Cambodia. We struck, we marched, we picketed until our feet almost fell off. And what did we have to show for it? Four kids lying shot apart at Kent State. Then this fall, some of us worked for people like Ottinger or Goodell, and what did we get for that? James Buckley and more war, that's what. So now, I just don't think people really think there's anything that can be done...
Hardly anyone seemed more dazed by the killing of four students at Kent State University than President Robert I. White. He was speechless even when an Ohio grand jury blamed the tragedy on Kent's "permissiveness" rather than the National Guardsmen who did the shooting. But he had reason for silence: the presiding judge forbade him and 300 others who testified from making any "critical comments." Last week, six days after a federal judge removed his legal gag, White spoke out with a blast at what he views as a new threat looming on U.S. campuses...
...Hearing. Until now, crusading was hardly White's style. He was noted more for prudence and hesitancy. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago, White, 61, was dean of Kent's College of Education for twelve years before becoming president in 1963. At first he tried to inform Ohioans about the new realities of youthful alienation and black militancy. But the town of Kent (pop. 30,000) grew increasingly impatient with protests. White leaned toward a harder line...
...years ago, Kent's black students and S.D.S. members staged a sit-in to protest recruiters from the Oakland. Calif., police department. White branded the action "intolerable." In the spring of 1969. he suspended officers of the S.D.S. chapter. When angry students responded by occupying a building, police made 58 arrests. Before any of the accused were tried, White suspended them without a hearing...
...city's edginess started last spring when about two dozen of Haverhill's 2,400 high school students tried to lead a demonstration against the Cambodian invasion and the Kent and Jackson State killings. They were beaten by members of the football team while police quietly watched. This fall, they put out an underground paper called the Mad Hatter. According to a local attorney, the school committee reacted to its four-letter words "as if they had come on the first copy of Das Kapital." The members banned the sheet from the school, calling it "filth" and "insanity...