Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Fire bombs hit Marquette Hall, Speech School and J-School. Sirens. O'Donnell girls walk out protesting unfair open-house rules in girls’ dorms. Dorms guarded by ASMU senators, faculty, dorm counselors, et al. Bomb scares begin. FRIDAY. Picketing begins at Grandmora. At a noon rally Dunn announces that Raynor's announcement will be announced later. He adds that the strike is over. Library sit-in. Expressway blocked. Milwaukee riot squad makes four arrests. Windows broken in Todd Wehr Chemistry. Sirens. l.D.’s needed to enter dorms. Black Student Union holds dance in ballroom. Traditional Music Society sponsors 12-hour jam session in grill annex. Heraty Beach fills with strikers, spectators, Milwaukee residents and drunks. Sirens all night. SATURDAY. Students mill through the grill, waiting for the unknown. Small fire in union men’s room. Publications Banquet cancelled. One thousand students brave rainstorm to picket O’Hara Hall for speeches. SUNDAY. Milwaukee Health Department closes union. Free the Three” rally held downtown. All day meeting at Greater Marquette Center produces grade option decision. Paris Baldacci reads Raynor's statement to crowd outside union. Options explained. Crowd rallies at People's Park, tours campus, throwing rocks and chanting. Dorm guarding goes on. Bomb scares frequent. Sirens. Dud bomb discovered on McCormick’s fifth floor. Students evacuate to union and Ardmore Apartments. Fire bomb discovered in Schroeder. Students evacuated to union. MONDAY. Cold and freezing weather. No strike activity. Students line up at department offices for grade options. Dorm exodus in full swing. Students live off campus: 333 from O’Donnell, 190 from McCormick and 110 from Tower. TUESDAY. All is quiet on the Marquette front. WEDNESDAY. Sixty students at afternoon rally decide campus needs political awareness through the summer and fall. The days ran into nights. The absurd mingled with the real. Emotions ran wild as intellects tried to cope. The self-seekers and self-sacrificers came forward, gave their speeches and retired to the wings. The student body was as confused as ever. It never recovered. It reeled under the terrorism of bomb scares and firebombs, reacted with beer bottles on Heraty Beach and wandered down the avenue looking for cops. It watched and clapped and retched. It stood in line to negotiate for final grades—the university’s blatant public avowal that grades mean very little—and slept off campus. It packed its suitcases early and went home. The corporate body died and the university yawned.

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Commencement ceremonies came with “Pomp and Circumstance resounding off the steel rafters of the Arena. In the wake of the strike, rumors of planned disruptions had circulated all during Senior Week. Everyone waited. The ROTC graduates filed into the Arena and sat together rather than in their resepctive college sections. Immediately they were sworn into commissioned service—for the second time in two days—to the tune of “give peace a chance. Several Liberal Arts seniors chanted and flashed the peace sign. Slowly the parental audience rose to its feet thunderously clapping in support of ROTC. The question arises: why must the ROTC commissioning ceremony be re-enacted before the entire graduating audience? Preferential treatment is given where none is due. Is ROTC interwoven so completely into the Marquette community that it deserves such elaborate attention? On the heels of the departing graduates, Hegelian scholars arrived for a Hegel Symposium held June 2-5th. The 175 philosophers brought intellectual excellence back to the campus. Hegel was a German philosopher who originated the historical and cultural dialectic theory that Karl Marx used sometime later to describe communism's proposed triumph over capitalism. All participants commented on the excellence of the symposium, sponsored by Marquette’s philosophy department. They said, the symposium aimed for quality and achieved it... superior to all others, and absolutely excellent, in every important respect .. A Benedictine monk, Dorn Sebastian Moore, OSB, finally made it to Marquette after being delayed by a ship’s broken propellor in the mid-Atlantic. Continuing Education worked arduously to arrange his two-day visit. Moore, a noted English religious scholar, lectured on God-talk and the notion of a bi-polar Church. Next the circus rolled in to celebrate the Fourth. Dom s b »ti n Moore, osb