Re: Columbia U. caves

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:52:02 -0400, Auric Hellman
<adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:

Why on an American college campus
is protest being stifled?

They marched by the thousands, on campuses from coast to coast. At
different times they chose different targets: the Pentagon, Presidents
Nixon and Johnson, the draft, Dow Chemical. But the students all acted
from a common belief that the Vietnam War was wrong. As that conflict
escalated, the protests grew in strength, and some turned violent.
They also triggered a backlash.
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But the violent consequences of some of those protests helped trigger
a backlash of support for the government and targeted corporations
like Dow. A record number of University of Wisconsin students signed
up for Dow interviews in the wake of the October 1967 bloodshed.
Wisconsin legislation held hearings denouncing student protests. And
local newspaper editorials overwhelmingly supported Dow and criticized
the students. The pro-war group Young Americans for Freedom saw
increased enrollment in its University of Wisconsin chapter. A
right-wing student newspaper was founded, the Badger Herald. And polls
after the Dow protests showed that large majorities felt the
demonstrations were "acts of disloyalty" against the soldiers in
Vietnam that hurt the larger antiwar cause.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/two-days-in-october-student-antiwar-protests-and-backlash/