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By WILLIAM J. SHKURTI

ISBN-10: 0814213073

ISBN-13: 9780814213070

ISBN-10: 0814253628

ISBN-13: 9780814253625

At 5:30 p.m. on may perhaps 6, 1970, an embattled Ohio country collage President beginner G. Fawcett took the exceptional step of last down the college. regardless of the presence of greater than 1,500 armed street patrol officials, Ohio nationwide Guardsmen, deputy sheriffs, and Columbus urban police, college and nation officers feared they can now not retain order within the face of becoming pupil protests. scholars, college, and employees have been ordered to depart; administrative workplaces, school rooms, and laboratories have been closed. The campus used to be sealed off. by no means within the first 100 years of the university’s lifestyles had this kind of drastic step been necessary.

 

Just a yr past the campus appeared proof against such disruptions. President Nixon thought of it secure adequate to plot an deal with at graduation. but a 12 months later the campus erupted right into a spasm of violent protest exceeding even that of conventional scorching spots like Berkeley and Wisconsin. How may possibly stipulations have replaced so dramatically in precisely a number of brief months?

 

Using modern information tales, lengthy neglected archival fabrics, and first-person interviews, The Ohio nation college within the Sixties explores how those tensions outfitted up over years, why they converged after they did and the way they perpetually replaced the university.

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