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Campus "Unrest" demonstrations and consequences, 1970-1971

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FIGHT BACK!
Events of the past week have made it clear that formal education at the University of Iowa has become an impossibility. in an atmosphere of political repression, administration-sanctioned violence, and judicial intimidation, classroom instruction cannot take place. It is unfair to students to expect them to concentrate on lectures, books, term papers, final exams, and other paraphernalia of what passes for an education at the University of Iowa, while the administration turns the campus into a police state.
Accordingly, the University of Iowa Chapter of the New University Conference calls upon the University community--students, faculty and administration--to end at once the academic exercises of this semester. Classes must cease, final examinations must be cancelled, and the administration and other officials responsible for the recent violence in Iowa City must be forced to deal with the moral issues with which students have contromted them. Accompanying the termination of this semester must be the following:
1. The abolition of ROTC at the University of Iowa and the provision of scholarships for all former cadets.
2. The resignation of Willard Boyd and Ray Heffner in view of their role in the unwarranted arrests of students and faculty Thursday night.
3. The punishment by law of policies who assault blacks.
4. The granting of amnesty for all persons protesting America's aggressive war in Southeast Asia and the presence of one arm of that war, ROTC, on the campus of the University of iowa.
5. The Tuesday, May 12th meeting of the Faculty Senate on the status of ROTC must be turned into an open meeting. It must be held on the Pentacrest, or, in case of rain, in MacBride Auditorium.

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FIGHT BACK! Events of the past week have made it clear that formal education at the University of Iowa has become an impossibility. in an atmosphere of political repression, administration-sanctioned violence, and judicial intimidation, classroom instruction cannot take place. It is unfair to students to expect them to concentrate on lectures, books, term papers, final exams, and other paraphernalia of what passes for an education at the University of Iowa, while the administration turns the campus into a police state. Accordingly, the University of Iowa Chapter of the New University Conference calls upon the University community--students, faculty and administration--to end at once the academic exercises of this semester. Classes must cease, final examinations must be cancelled, and the administration and other officials responsible for the recent violence in Iowa City must be forced to deal with the moral issues with which students have contromted them. Accompanying the termination of this semester must be the following: 1. The abolition of ROTC at the University of Iowa and the provision of scholarships for all former cadets. 2. The resignation of Willard Boyd and Ray Heffner in view of their role in the unwarranted arrests of students and faculty Thursday night. 3. The punishment by law of policies who assault blacks. 4. The granting of amnesty for all persons protesting America's aggressive war in Southeast Asia and the presence of one arm of that war, ROTC, on the campus of the University of iowa. 5. The Tuesday, May 12th meeting of the Faculty Senate on the status of ROTC must be turned into an open meeting. It must be held on the Pentacrest, or, in case of rain, in MacBride Auditorium.