Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Peaceful student protest follows Kent State killings, spread of war More than 40,000 Americans killed in VietNam, four dead Kent State Univer- sity students and the spreading of the Indochina War were the issues peace- fully protested by 2,000 students, facul- ty, administrationers and townspeople on May 6, 1970. Protestors gathered at noon in front of Anderson hall to show dissatisfaction toward President Nixon ' s decision to expand the war in Cambodia and to participate in a funeral procession for Kent State students alleged to have been shot by National Guardsmen dur- ing a war protest riot. Before pallbearers carried the sym- bolic black coffin through the Universi- ty, protestors sang and listened to speakers plead for peace and an end to the growing war. Then, the funeral procession wound its way through the campus, ending on a hill across from the ROTC building. There, the coffin was burned in hopes of a quick and just peace. Student and faculty strike is urged by a selection of banners and signs. Fred Clemente, political science in- structor, explains the Asian opinion of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and the reaction of student protest. 22

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Speaking to an audience of 4,000, Interior Secretary Hickel, a Landon lecturer, challenged them to care for the earth by pollution control. Walter Hickel, followed by a chain of Volkswagens, rode in an electric car from the airport to campus. Both cars are low in their pollution effect. Supporters for the control of pollu- tion in the environment show their concern during an address by Secre- tary of the Interior Walter Hickel.

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Concerned with the expanded U.S. involvement in Asia and in protest of To commemorate the war dead and those who died in campus revolts, 23 the four deaths at Kent State, hun- dreds gathered for a massive strike. a coffin was burned on the hill across f rom the Military Science Building.