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...tragedy, and the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, headed by former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton. In New Haven, Police Chief James Ahern, a member of the Scranton commission, said flatly that the grand jury's findings concerning the Guardsmen were "inconsistent with the facts." On the Kent State campus, students held a peaceful rally and some were raising funds for the defense of those indicted. The names of the accused will not become known until this week, but they are expected to include students and nonstudent youths alike...
...contrast, the Scranton commission's special report on ' Kent State -which noted that it was avoiding any assessment of guilt in order not to impede criminal investigations-called the decision to disperse the then peaceful rally "a serious error," and the manner in which it was done "disastrous." THE SHOOTINGS. The grand jury was critical of the Guard's commanders at Kent State for placing their men in danger. But of the Guardsmen who actually did the shooting, the jury said: "They fired their weapons in the honest and sincere belief and under circumstances which would have...
...UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION. The jury said bluntly: "We find that the major responsibility for the incidents occurring on the Kent State University campus on May 2, 3 and 4 rests clearly with those persons who are charged with the administration of the university." It charged that ineffective policies over a period of years had rendered the uni versity "totally incapable of reacting ... in any effective manner." The university, the jury found, "can no longer regulate the activities of either [students or faculty] and is particularly vulnerable to any pressure applied from radical elements." The Scranton commission, while avoiding direct critical comment...
...Scranton commission also saw the need to learn from what it called the unnecessary tragedy of Kent State, but it found basic lessons in the events for the Guard as well as for the students and the university. It said: "The actions of some students were violent and criminal and those of some others were dangerous, reckless and irresponsible. The indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable...
...grand jury report, according to Special Prosecutor Robert Balyeat, was based on "far more evidence" than that available to the Scranton commission. The jury had reopened not only the specific controversy over the events at Kent State, but also the general debate over the causes and cure of disorders on the nation's campuses...