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With the arrival of spring's best weather in much of the nation, campus unrest was abloom almost everywhere, from Caltech, which had known almost no demonstrations, to the University of Maryland, where police and National Guardsmen waged pitched battles with protesters. Early in the week the issues included almost any notion that radicals could use to challenge administrations or to try to provoke a confrontation. There were demonstrations seeking more black students, protests against ROTC, fights for greater student influence over university policy. But after the President announced the dispatch of U.S. troops into Cambodia, the overriding issue...
Governor Ronald Reagan of California yesterday afternoon asked all seven state universities to close until Sunday, so that students could consider "the grave sequence of current events." Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes said that all Ohio universities experiencing unrest should be shut down immediately...
...praised the students who had helped fight campus fires and denied that there was any racial organization behind the disorder. Instead, he blamed the firebombings on "pyromaniacs," and attributed the high school disturbances to a small group of "sick if not insane people who use the cover of student unrest and political tension in the high school to destroy...
...same brand of cliched sociology also turns up in the book's pronouncements about general student unrest. Most college students, the authors tell us, were...
...ancestors came starving on a boat four generations ago. They made it, and many of them died for the new country that was hostile to them. But none of them, from all over Europe, set themselves up as martyrs, full of self-hate. Believe me, the seeds of unrest are not exclusively the black...