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Roger Paynter, a 49-year-old New York City fireman with a son at New York University, was outraged when N.Y.U. canceled his son's classes for 19 days amid the national wave of campus protests over Cambodia and Kent State. "I paid for my son's education, and the university should make it available to him," he said. As a result, Paynter sued N.Y.U. in the city's small claims court, asking for 19 days' worth of his money back. According to the university, its catalogue clearly stated that academic programs and requirements were subject...
After four students at Kent State University were killed and nine were wounded by National Guardsmen last May, the incident stayed on the front pages of newspapers for weeks. Even today, five months later, the aftermath of the confrontation still makes news. But when students at the predominantly black South Carolina State College in Orangeburg clashed with police on Feb. 8, 1968, newsmen covered the event sparsely, inaccurately, or not at all. Though three students were killed in Orangeburg and 27 others were wounded, the tragedy was effectively ignored by most of the world...
Last Friday the three professors organized a meeting of 70 students, faculty, and staff members at the Medical School which sent a telegram of encouragement to the Kent State student government...
...this reason Gorini, along with Edward A. Kravitz and David D. Potter, professors of Neurobiology, responded to the appeal for support from students at Kent State University as reported in the New York Times of October...
...telegram stated, "We are appalled" at the fact that 25 Kent students and faculty have been indicted by an Ohio grand jury in connection with the disorders at the school last May, while National Guardsman have been "exonerated" of guilt in the deaths of four students...