Word: winstead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freaks" (members of the university's long-hair set). Six city police rolled up and soon were reinforced by nightstick-toting plainclothesmen. There followed what by most accounts was a police riot: the cops went berserk, clubbing students and bystanders indiscriminately. Among the casualties was Senior Richard Winstead, a former all-state basketball star and campus beau ideal. Strolling on the Dekehouse lawn with a date, Winstead was wrestled into some bushes and stick-whipped by policemen. Undergraduates were appalled. "You know," said one Greek, "we never believed the black students about police brutality. We thought the Freaks deserved...