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...Ebert suspended normal business at the Med School "to mark the deaths of those students needlessly killed at Kent State University and the needless deaths in Southeast Asia." Since then, two other students-at all-black Jackson State College in Mississippi-have died in campus disorders. Today's day of mourning coincides with "Black Solidarity...
During a period of national turmoil and self-doubt, it is all the more imperative for protesters to put down their rocks and find their voices again. As a commentary on the Kent State tragedy, President Nixon's remark that "when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy" is callously inadequate. His warning, however, carries the weight of history: in a general unleashing of violence, dissent is the first casualty. Today the nation is in considerable need of healing, as well as elevating, language; often in the past that need has been filled by protesters whose perspective on society...
Rhodes also may have been hurt by the killing of four Kent State students the day before the primary. He had successfully opposed hard-line state legislation against student protesters, and Taft headquarters criticized Rhodes for that opposition only hours after Na tional Guardsmen - ordered to Kent State by Rhodes - shot the students...
...Fitzpatrick, it was a long-delayed victory. A journalism major at Kent State, he switched to English when the chairman of the journalism department told him he could not write and would never make it as a reporter. For a long time, it seemed that the chairman was at least half right. As a cub reporter on the Toledo Blade in 1957, Fitzpatrick freelanced a story for a competing paper. He was fired. At his next job, in Lima, Ohio, he recalls that "I was writing a column in which I said that bowling was stupid and that bowlers were...
...only 10% are Democrats and the rest independents), and fully 84% voted for the President. The poll was taken last week, after Nixon had announced the invasion of Cambodia and just before the eruption of the massive campus protest over that move and the deaths of four students at Kent State University...