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Saturday, February 22 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Olympians Track and Field Meet from Madison Square Garden, plus the announcement of the series' "Athlete of the Year" award...
Even at its height last Thursday, the demonstration at Madison resembled a homecoming carnival more than a protest. For the University of Wisconsin, Wednesday and Thursday are the end of one weekend and the beginning of another. Besides the protestors, thousands of students lined the streets to watch the National Guard go through its maneuvers. Coeds walked around with instamatics taking pictures to send home to Whitefish Bay or Eau Claire, and boys wore their best stapress levies and sweaters for the occasion...
Black students understood their mass of student support far better than anyone else in Wisconsin last week. Madison students will turn out in hundreds to picket and march, and in thousands to watch the National Guard. Confrontation politics, however, is as popular as Wisconsin's 0 and 17 football team. The week-long meeting between police and students approached confrontation often, but it never came...
While the week was punctuated with violence, these were usually encounters between Madison police--"first that Dow thing, now this. Let's take a few of them with us"--and white radicals. The National Guard appeared to be having fun playing army for a week. The units Governor Knowles called in were almost exclusively from farm areas -- there was only one unit from Milwaukee, Wisconsin's only center of black population. They could not hold a formation and they were soon bored by all the marching around...
Though students had asked the chancellor to agree to all the demands, most were not within his jurisdiction and his assent means little to a state legislature which was already hostile toward radicalism on the Madison campus. By the end of last week, most black leaders had resigned themselves to the fact that their demonstration was only serving to dramatize the power structure of a state school--the preponderant legislative interference in the university...