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University of Iowa anti-war protests, 1965-1967
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[photo caption] TENTING TONIGHT! - Preparing to sit out a nine-day fast, these antiwar demonstraters, who declined to identify themselves, warm their hands at a lantern inside a tent pitched at the Girls Athletic Field south of the Union. Members of Student for a Democratic Society erected two tents Tuesday night as part of a camp-in to protest the planned appearance here of recruiters for Dow Chemical Co. -Photo by Jon Jacobsen Fasters, Campers Begin Long Vigil To Protest Dow By ROY PETTY Nearly a dozen antiwar protesters began living in tents on the athletic field south of the Union Tuesday night o observe a day-and-night vigil until Down Chemical Co. makers of napalm, leaves the campus on Dec. 5. Nearly all of the campers have apparently gone without food since Monday morning. University official allowed the tents to be set up near the Union after an agreement was reached between the administration and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), in which SDS promised to accept certain conditions concerning the protest. Bruce Clark, Al. Des Moines, unofficial leader of the fast, said Tuesday that the major part of the agreement was a promise that SDS would not sponsor an obstruction or any form of dangerous or illegal protest against Dow Chemical's two-day recruiting efforts Monday and Tuesday. Individuals Could Act Clark added that the pact did no necessarily mean that individual students could not organize a blockade of the recruiting area, as was done for the Nov. 1 demonstration against Marine Corps recruiters. He said the University administrators stipulated only SDS since that was the body officially asking for permission to camp out. The setting up of the tents was delayed until after 5 p.m. because SDS had agreed to wait until the Highlanders had completed posing for pictures on the field. The Highlanders did not show up, but the fasters waited until nightfall before pitching two tents composed of nylon parachutes draped over pyramids of wooden beams, much like Indian tepees. By 9 p.m. the fasters had moved into the tents and were circled around hot charcoal braziers because the temperature was below freezing. One of the campus cradled a small dog in his arms. One of the campers was Fred Barnett, 213 S. Capitol St., who turned in his draft card to federal officials in Cedar Rapids on Nov. 16 with Ed Hoffmans, University of Northern Iowa English instructor, Barnett is a technician at University Hospitals. L.A. Stop Postponed In Los Angeles, meanwhile, Dow postponed until next Monday further job recruitment on the campus of the University of California following demonstrations there and at other universities, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, UCLA students arranged to vote today in a referendum to express their opinions on the future status of the campus job placement center, where recruitment interviews have been conducted. Dow attributed delay of further interviews at UCLA to changes of schedules at other schools, not to student antiwar protests. In a rally Monday, 559 UCLA students demonstrated against such campus protests as those aimed at Dow Chemical. The administration's position has been that the job recruitment program was requested by the student body. [handwritten] DI Nov. 39, 1967
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[photo caption] TENTING TONIGHT! - Preparing to sit out a nine-day fast, these antiwar demonstraters, who declined to identify themselves, warm their hands at a lantern inside a tent pitched at the Girls Athletic Field south of the Union. Members of Student for a Democratic Society erected two tents Tuesday night as part of a camp-in to protest the planned appearance here of recruiters for Dow Chemical Co. -Photo by Jon Jacobsen Fasters, Campers Begin Long Vigil To Protest Dow By ROY PETTY Nearly a dozen antiwar protesters began living in tents on the athletic field south of the Union Tuesday night o observe a day-and-night vigil until Down Chemical Co. makers of napalm, leaves the campus on Dec. 5. Nearly all of the campers have apparently gone without food since Monday morning. University official allowed the tents to be set up near the Union after an agreement was reached between the administration and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), in which SDS promised to accept certain conditions concerning the protest. Bruce Clark, Al. Des Moines, unofficial leader of the fast, said Tuesday that the major part of the agreement was a promise that SDS would not sponsor an obstruction or any form of dangerous or illegal protest against Dow Chemical's two-day recruiting efforts Monday and Tuesday. Individuals Could Act Clark added that the pact did no necessarily mean that individual students could not organize a blockade of the recruiting area, as was done for the Nov. 1 demonstration against Marine Corps recruiters. He said the University administrators stipulated only SDS since that was the body officially asking for permission to camp out. The setting up of the tents was delayed until after 5 p.m. because SDS had agreed to wait until the Highlanders had completed posing for pictures on the field. The Highlanders did not show up, but the fasters waited until nightfall before pitching two tents composed of nylon parachutes draped over pyramids of wooden beams, much like Indian tepees. By 9 p.m. the fasters had moved into the tents and were circled around hot charcoal braziers because the temperature was below freezing. One of the campus cradled a small dog in his arms. One of the campers was Fred Barnett, 213 S. Capitol St., who turned in his draft card to federal officials in Cedar Rapids on Nov. 16 with Ed Hoffmans, University of Northern Iowa English instructor, Barnett is a technician at University Hospitals. L.A. Stop Postponed In Los Angeles, meanwhile, Dow postponed until next Monday further job recruitment on the campus of the University of California following demonstrations there and at other universities, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, UCLA students arranged to vote today in a referendum to express their opinions on the future status of the campus job placement center, where recruitment interviews have been conducted. Dow attributed delay of further interviews at UCLA to changes of schedules at other schools, not to student antiwar protests. In a rally Monday, 559 UCLA students demonstrated against such campus protests as those aimed at Dow Chemical. The administration's position has been that the job recruitment program was requested by the student body. [handwritten] DI Nov. 39, 1967
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