Word: waller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUESDAY morning, I found about 30 students milling around a bulldozer they had stopped at Waller Creek before it could do a lot of damage. I helped guard the creek between classes during the day, and made a sign that I tied to a tree- just a small tree- a sapling not more than twelve feet tall. It switched around Shakespeare's tombstone epitaph to: "Cursed be he that moves our trees; Blessed be he that leaves them be." Tuesday night people slept in the trees so that the university couldn't send out a midnight wrecking crew...
Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. I found a crowd of several hundred students clustered around Waller Creek. Erwin was there with about 50 campus cops and a bulldozer. The local Sierra Club, at the instigation of some professors who were members of it, was trying to get a temporary injunction to stop the university from acting until it could look at the alternatives. For some reason, they weren't going to be able to get the injunction until about 10 a.m., but the university had sort of indicated that it would only clear away brush until 10 a.m. (You always...
...General Faculty of the university held a special meeting at which they adopted a resolution harshly condemning Erwin for his general actions during his term as Regent and especially for his behavior at the "Battle of Waller Creck." If he refused to resign, it said, the faculty would institute impeachment proceedings against him in the Texas legislature. That is a nice gesture, but it probably won't work because Erwin is so powerful in Texas. He was a successful lawyer who became a crony of LBJ and Connally, and rose with them. Connally appointed him a Regent...
Last Saturday was another beautiful sunny day. About 250 of us gathered at Waller Creek to plant some trees, clean the place up and shore up the banks with rocks and logs. I only stayed a couple of hours, but it was really nice. I worked hard carrying rocks, and there were lots of apples, oranges, and singing. We even built a barbecue...
Last Tuesday they bulldozed away everything we had built, but that was sort of expected. I spent half an hour trying to escort the last living thing in Waller Creek past the bulldozer, but it got scared when the dozen snorted, and I finally had to give up. The last living thing was a large old snapping turtle- who looked so very confused...