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1970 Tragedy at Kent State University
Remembered by Concerned Students
By AUDREY BLEDSOE. FEATURE EDITOR
There is a bullet bole in the
statue in front of Taylor Hail, but
the blood on the pavement has
been washed away, the four dead
students are buried, and most of
the wounded have recovered. But
the tragedy of Kent State is not
forgotten a year later.
A leader of the student
movement said that it was at
Kent State that “the young
became niggers” and that “Kent
State will serve as a rallying
point much the way the Boston
Massacre and the Alamo did.”
A YEAR AGO
But since the tragedy of a year
ago, there have been no campus
disorders of major proportions It
seems that the students have
WEST GEORGIA X
VOLUME XXXVII NUMBER 30 CARROLLTON, GA. 30117 FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1971
Former President James Boyd
To Assume Interim Tech Job
Former West Georgia
President James E. Boyd was
appointed acting president of
Georgia Tech Tuesday following
the resignation of Tech President
Arthur G. Hansen.
Dr. Boyd, who served as West
Georgia's president for ten years
and recently left to assume the
position of vice chancellor for
academic development for the
the University System, will take
over the Tech job until anew
president is selected.
PLANS
Dr. Hansen announced his
plans to some 4,000 students in
Tuesday’s assembly and added
that he will leave Atlanta to
become president of Purdue
University on July I.
While a Tech faculty member,
Dr. Boyd served as a research
assistant directing radar and
microwave propagation projects
and later was named t lief of the
Physical Sciences division. He
went on to become director of the
Engineering Station.
DEVELOPMENT
As director erf the station, Dr.
Boyd was responsible for
development and administration
of Tech’s central research
facilities and for all research
sponsored by the Department of
Defense and Industry, as well as
other federal, state, and local
agencies.
He was also one of the prime
movers in Georgia Tech’s
nuclear program and was
chairman of the Nuclear Science
Committee.
Since Dr. Boyd left West
Georgia cm April 1, Dr. George
Walker, vice-president of the
institution, has been acting
president.
As of this week, the Advisory
Committee of facility, students,
and alumni which is working with
gone underground in the face of
fire. Even the acceleration of the
war into Laos triggered no
massive rallies or organized
campus protests.
A writer in “Nation” says that
students have swallowed the
resentment they felt over May 4
and over the callous reaction of
their elders, but “they are
beginning to accumulate
frustration at a disturbing rate.”
The reaction to Kent State has
been more real than apparent.
The tragedy did not trigger more
violent confrontations but it has
widened the rift between
generations. A surprising
number of middle class
Americans reacted not with
the chancellor in interviewing
candidates for the vacant
position, is still “considering
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These children are running in the 50 yard dash. Each division ran in each event until all 120
children had tried their skill.
A Glimpse Of The Special Olympics
The Recreation Department, along with the Civitan club
and the Carroll County Association for Mentally Retarded
children, sponsored a Special Olympics Wednesday with
over 120 children participating. Students from West
Georgia College and several coaches assisted the Recreation
Department in the Olympics.
The children participated in the Olympics and followed a
program designed just like the Olympics held each year
around the world. Mayor John Robinson delivered an
opening address to the athletes and gave them the special
Olympic charge.
shock but approbation to the four
deaths; students canonized the
dead into unbelievably innocent
martyrs.
ACCIDENTAL TRAGEDY
Six months after the May 4
incident, an Ohio grand jury
indicted 25 students, faculty
members, and administrators
while exonerating the guardsmen
who fired the fatal shots.
The report written by the jury
members themselves, laid
special blame on the ad
ministration for “surrendering
the campus to violent radicals
through years of laxity, over
indulgence, and per
missiveness.”
several men for the job,” ac
cording to Dr. James Mathews,
chairman.
President of the University,
Robert White, charged that the
report was inaccurate and that if
followed in all nuances it would
“destroy Kent State and all
major universities in America.”
Trials for the indicted 25 began,
but will probably last for years.
Meanwhile governmental studies
concluded that the events were
“unnecessary, unwarranted, and
inexcusable.” In a book-long
study author James Michener
concludes that the event was “an
accidental tragedy.”
Dean Kahler, permanently
paralyzed from the waist down as
a result of injuries received at
Kent, says the one thing that Kent
Morley Recommends
Curfew Be Dropped
By JULIAN McCULLER
A recommendation that curfew on second and third quarter
freshman women be removed was adopted by the student senate at
its regular meeting Tuesday night. The group approved the
recommendation made by Boyd R. Mobley, minister of student
affairs. The change still has to be approved by the dean of student
affairs and the president of the college.
Mosley said upperclass
women have adhered to the
curfew regulations and have
shown that the women of the
student body are “mature adults
capable of making responsible
decisions.”
OTHER BUSINESS
Other business at the Senate
meeting included moving the
State proved is that “there must
be an end to violence.”
VIOLENCE BREEDS
VIOLENCE
After returning to the
University in January, Kahler
often speaks for the cause of
peace because “violence only
breeds more violence.”
In the aftermath of the events
last year, a letter to the editor of
“Time” magazine asked, “When
will college kids stop their
tiresome rallies and return to
class?” A year later it seems
that the rallies have stopped, but
whether or not the students have
returned to class, it is too early to
say.
deadline for signing up for
candidacy for SGA elections to
May 11, a week later than
originally planned. The reason
for the postponement is to give
more students a chance to
decide whether to run for one of
the 20 offices open, said John
Rouselle, elections chairman.
Don Smart, president of the
SGA, explained the high points
of the student Academic
Council meeting last week,
where discussion centered on
making sex education courses
available on the state college
campuses. The courses would be
taught jointly by psychology
and biology departments, Smart
said.
Also discussed at the meeting
was the proposed college senate
which would be composed of
faculty, students, administrative
officials, and staff
representatives. It was brought
out in the discussion that Dr.
James Boyd, former president,
urged the move be adopted.
Such a plan has been presented
to the Board of Regents.
New appointments were made
and approved. They are Bill
Groover, chairman of the main
court; Susan boyko, executive
secretary of the main court; and
Tom Cyhers, minister of
academic affairs.
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Strike!
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Veteran Interview
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