Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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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.

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Bring The Action Home Washington overflowed the next month. The protesters from the cities and the campuses spilled around the White House and the Justice Building and down Constitution Avenue. Some reports said 250,000 and some said a million people were there. It ' s too bad. The first thing anyone said when you asked him about Wash- ington was, Well, I was teargassed. The gas came Friday night after SDS called a march to the South Vietnamese embassy to serve an eviction notice. It ' s too bad because 47,000 people participated in a 40-hour March Against Death before that, each marcher calling out the name he was carrying as he filed past the White House. The voices harmonized with funeral cadences beat- ing from six drums. The strands of people wound from the Capitol to the Washington Monu- ment in the official march organized by the New Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. Some placed the estimate of marchers near a million, but of course that ' s still a minority. The silent majority remained silent. Everyone said the Moratorium would continue to grow in strength but the Dec. 14 newspaper headlines were busy with more elaborate issues. As one student leaving Washington said, ' Nixon will have to hear us, an- other commented, I don ' t think this does any good any more. We ' ve been doing it for ten years. « 1 - ;v J %m