Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

 - Class of 1972

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demonstrators tangled through all of this, with rocks, gas, and insults Hung across the Mall. Several were injured - both police and students. At about 5:30 the police left the area. Rev. Vincent Hawk- inson of Minnesota Clergy and Laymen Concerned tried to calm the group. We don't want another Kent Slate. he yelled. I'm with you 100 percent. I've been fighting the war for seven years. I hate this goddamn war. Let's not kill one another. Let's not kill our brothers. By midnight a barricade built of snow fences, saw horses, trashcans, cement blocks and lumber stood across Washing- ton Avenue at Church Street. No traffic would be allowed to pass, .lust in case. Governor Wendell Anderson activiated three National Guard units to take their positions on campus early Thursday morning at the request of Minneapolis TOP LEFT: Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy speaks from the steps of the University’s Coffman Union while students look on. LEFT CENTER: A lone National Guardsman stands near the University’s Armory with a statue of a historic sentry in the background. RIGHT CENTER: A painted cry ’’Strike on a footbridge. ABOVE: University President Malcom Moos holds a news conference during the heated week on his campus. TOP RIGHT: A group of protestors spends the night camping by streetlight at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Church Street. Mayor Charles Stenvig. Campus activities on Thursday were relatively calm, or rather they remained peaceful because the police kept their hands clean. The barricade was manned by students all day long, and they also blocked traffic on University that after- noon. A march through the streets was likewise relatively uneventful. The demonstrators caused quite a disturbance later, however, when they moved onto 1-94 during rush hour, blocking traffic for an hour. Former Senator Gene McCarthy boldly stated in his speech during an afternoon campus rally that impeachment procedures should be started against President Nixon for his latest moves against North Vietnam. Traffic resumed at 5:30 at a normal pace, but not before demonstrators had proved how well they could dis- turb the normal pattern of life in order to make themselves heard. University President Malcolm Moos spoke to the crowds blockading the streets on Friday. Since dawn, police and National Guardsmen had been trying to clear the area with no success. Pressure was building. Moos tried to get the dem- onstrators to leave the area, but he also revealed an under- standing of their point of view. Looking tired and w ith hands trembling. Moos said. For 4 Vi years (as university president) I have advocated and used restraint. In the last day and a half I think things have been cool. I applaud you...I am respectfully asking you to leave Washington Avenue...If you don't leave, this is out of my hands. This is a city street. A little later the protestors were warned that in no sooner than 20 minutes National Guardsmen and Minneapolis police would arrive to clear the street. This announcement by Eugene Eidcnbcrg. acting University Vice President, was followed by additional comments that police would respond to acts of violence, and may use gas again. Minneapolis Police Captain Bruce W. I.indberg reported that officers were prepared to non-violcntly arrest anyone who wished to peacefully demonstrate anti-war feelings. Minutes later he announced that the crowd could stay in the street for the time being. You can have your street. We will not move troops in. There will be no violence. Within minutes, all 23

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began at noon on Northrup Pla a. But speeches didn’t satisfy the restless crowd and they were anxious to demonstrate to the community their disapproval of recent war actions. Groups of 25 to 30 people were formed and they began to march toward the Dinkytown Air Force recruiting station. Finding it empty on arrival, they soon moved on to the Armory. The demonstrators chose to express themselves there by breaking windows in the building. Police Captain McDonough of the University Police told the group that they could stay if they discontinued their destruction. Mem- bers of the group responded by burning the window screens which had been removed. Destruction continued. A few min- utes later, on the arrival of the Tactical Squad, protestors were chased off the street. Once again the crowd began to throw rocks, eggs and bottles at the police. One band of demonstrators overturned a car on 18th Avenue and threw a match into the pool of gasoline which spilled out. Flames soared, the gas exploded. Police then tried to restore disci- pline, clearing the sidewalks and chasing protestors down the street. Arrests were made. In many cases, police held protestors to the ground while handcuffing them, then beat them with fists. The group decided to meet and regroup at Washington Avenue and Church Street. They moved in about 2 P.M., blocking traffic on both streets. At 2:30 the crowd moved eastward on Washington blocking Oak Street traffic. At 3:00 the Tactical Squad arrived, armed with riot sticks and masks. They spread out across Oak Street in columns of 20, and the police captain announced into a bullhorn “Clear this area or you will be Maced.” Then the police charged, swing- ing riot sticks and squirting Mace. They then moved on to the group at Washington and Church Street, still swinging their sticks, and pushed the demonstrators back onto the Mall. The police then regrouped at the intersection and charged the crowd again, this time wearing gas masks and hurling tear gas. Students were chased up the Mall, only to follow the policemen back onto the street .when they re- turned. About 5 P.M. protestors lore down part of the fence dividing Washington Avenue and strung it across the street. Police tried to clear away the fence once, and they clashed with another group on the north side of the street. Police and 22 ? U+Sl



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BOTTOM LEFT: Protestors sitting on Washington Avenue enjoy a musical evening of their own. while traffic is rerouted off the street. BELOW: Angry students trample over a chain-link fence at a Cedar-Riverside housing de- velopment. FACING PAGE: Thousands of demonstrators march through the rain and drizzle to the Capitol in St. Paul as a finale to a week of protest. hut 100 protestors left the street. By nightfall only about 150 protestors remained on campus. At 8:00 P.M. the Na- tional Guard was removed. Officials fell safe in doing this because there had been no violence since Wednesday. In spite of 150, by 7 A.M. the barricade was removed at Wash- ington and Church, traffic moved, and police left. The barri- cade at Oak Street was torn down by a dozen students who opposed the war in Vietnam but who also opposed the dem- onstrators' tactics. Saturday's events consisted of a peaceful march in front of Coffman Union and ending at the Minnesota Capitol. There was no trouble and the march was considered success- ful. Despite persistent rain, about 8,000 people participated to make themselves seen and heard. Many opionions have been expressed on both sides now that the incidents are over. Undoubtedly both sides were at fault wherever there was any conflict. It was proven on Thursday and Friday, and even more on Saturday that dem- onstrations can be peaceful, and people can be heard. To Howard Gelfand, editorial staff writer in the Minneapolis STAR, the week was remarkable, . .it wasn't rioting that made the week remarkable, it was the quick return of peace to the campus and the continued naivate of the protestors. Tin. tone of the week wasn't set by the rock-throwing on Wednesday, but by the quaint resolution of university phy- sicians on Friday, calling for the police to aim their riot sticks at shoulders instead of heads.” The riots are over, but Minneapolis and St. Paul will not forget them for a long time. At least it w ould be well for them if they did not. A look at the contrast between that Wed- nesday and Saturday reveals that there are lessons to be learned about effective control, effective ways of being heard, and just about people in general: things vital to a “by the people and for the people” government. 24

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