Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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In May, UDC punished four members of SDS for disrupting a regularly scheduled class of NROTC during an anti-ROTC demonstration on Deering Meadow. The university has used academic means in defin- ing Deering Meadow as a classroom in order to re- press political dissent on the campus, Defense Counsel Barb Caulfield said. Six hundred students rallied to an SDS demonstra- tion protesting the UDC action, the largest such force Northwestern has seen. But SDS anti-ROTC polemics were overshadowed by the general indig- nation of those present that a judicial body declared inadequate had again been allowed to exercise power. The Daily pointed out that Dean Hinz acted as both a prosecutor, since his staff members had been at Deering helping identify offenders, and as a member of the judicial committee. Associated Student Government reported that no midshipmen had said their rights were violated, and that Col. Baylor Gibson said he saw no disruption on the field. The case was appealed, UDC dissolved into the Student Hearing and Appeals Board — but for the four, the sentences held. Northwestern University stands for freedom of speech, freedom of inquiry, freedom of dissent and freedom to demonstrate in peaceful fashion . . . and stands for the right of all faculty and students to pursue their legitimate goals without interfer- ence. . . . This University, therefore, will not toler- ate any attempt by any individual, group or organi- zation to disrupt the regularly scheduled activities of the University. ... if any such attempt is made to interfere with any University activity, the lead- ers and participants engaged in disruptive tactics will be held responsible and will be subject to ap- propriate legal and disciplinary action, including expulsion. — Board of Trustees

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Cahn auditorium ove rflowed and spilled 2,000 people into Deering Mead- ow. Controversial historial Staughton Lynd spoke there, placing responsibility { for the war on big ' corporations and the universities that in- vest in them. Others spoke on war crimes and war games. Six hundred Northwestern students leafletted Evanston. There were classes, too — about a third of those normally scheduled — but audiences were small. Young Americans For Freedom demanded refunds for cancelled classes, but most of those who didn ' t participate in the Moratorium did not begrudge a day off. SDS marched in a torchlight parade of sixty against ROTC and scuffled with fraternity men that night. The Civic Center in Chicago over- flowed. The crowd spilled across the plaza and the base of Picasso ' s rusted bird onto LaSalle St. Traffic was de- toured. Office workers watched construction workers watched and police encircling the base of the Civic Center Building watched. But housewives and hippies, businessmen ana students, blacks and whites and vet- ' I Si illg erans participated. j -— . -:;-= «i Defendants in the Conspiracy Eight trial spoke, wearing black arm bands. Members of the Hair cast sang. And in a moment of silence, everyone bowed his head and raised his arm fingers stretched into the V for peace. Over 15,000 students from neigh- boring universities leafletted the city and a white-jacketed corps of North- western med students carried a mock stretcher splattered with mock blood into the American Medical Association offices. At the University of Chicago, a bell tolled 38 times for the 38 weeks the Nixon Administra- tion had failed to end the war. But in the White House, Nixon was busy discussing Latin American and economic problems.