National Guardsmen open fire on students, some of whom are fleeing for cover into Taylor Hall May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio. Four students died and nine others were wounded during the student protest at Kent State against the Vietnam War. Clouds of dust at the far left of the photo near the sidewalk show bullets hitting the ground.
Since April 18, police also have detained protesters at Emerson College in Boston, New York University, the University of Texas at Austin and Ohio State University, among others. But even as law enforcement has moved in, students — many demanding that their institutions cut ties with corporations doing business with Israel — have gathered on campuses, defying exhortations and threats by administrators and calls for crackdowns by politicians.
Unfortunately. we’re seeing much of the same anger and outrage over the relentless bombing of Gaza and the cruel hostage dramas of Hamas that led to mass arrests and graduation cancellations that some of us old-timers easily and unhappily recall from the Vietnam era. On my way to the West Coast, I stopped for a couple of days to revisit my alma mater in Athens, Ohio. It was there on the television in the student union that I heard President Richard Nixon announce his latest surprise: America was making an “incursion,” which sounds slightly nicer although less honest, than “invasion,” into Cambodia.
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