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Like the Paris student uprising two years ago, the U.S. student strikes over Cambodia and Kent State had a spontaneous and vivid byproduct: a sudden flood of impassioned graphic art, always polemical, often bitter, sometimes extraordinarily eloquent. Hundreds of thousands of protest posters poured out of campus workshops. One group at Stanford put together a collection from California campuses for a ten-day show in a Washington, D.C., church hall that ended last week. The students sold posters and lithographs for prices ranging from 500 to $70 to raise money for peace candidates...
...caricature of a new conflict is raging right at home. The old meaning still persists; hardly any American could escape a thrill of pride when Neil Armstrong planted his vertebrate flag on the airless moon. But some Americans could also sympathize with the emotion that moved a student at Kent State to rip down a flag after the shootings. It is as if two cultures, both of them oddly brandishing the same banner, were arrayed in some 18th century battle painting, the young whirling in defiant rock carmagnole against the panoplied Silent Majority...
...their own causes, they attach great importance to how it is shown. The day after the Kent State shootings, a crowd of 20,000 young people gathered on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse to protest. As Republican Governor Francis Sargent looked down, the crowd chanted: "Lower the flag! Lower the flag!" Sargent did so. The encounter was an indirect affirmation by youth of the country's most enduring symbol; the lowering of the flag to half-staff seemed to them a proper and necessary tribute to their fellow students who had fallen...
...year-old Rice University graduate student, Sidney Drouilhet II, was guest of honor at a Chamber of Commerce banquet because he filed charges against three other young men for dishonoring a flag. When 150 San Diego State College students tried to half-staff a campus flag after Kent State, Bill Pierson, a 6-ft. 5-in., 250-lb. football center, held them off singlehanded for three hours and became a Horatius figure in conservative San Diego...
CLEVELAND, OHIO sprawls comfortably just south of polluted Lake Erie. The city does not appear crowded. The expensive Tudor mansions along Fairmont Boulevard give way gradually to the apartments in Shaker Heights, which in turn, lead to the ghetto. Hugh Calkins '45 is from Cleveland. Kent State is 50 miles away...