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Student protests, May-December 1971

1971-05-13 Iowa City Press-Citizen Article: ""Ray Has Made 'No Plans To Remove Highway Patrol'""

P-C 5/13/71

After Night of Clam

Peace returned to the University of Iowa campus today after several nights of disturbances. Next week is finals week, and many students are spending most of their non-class time with their books. There remain some 200 highway patrolmen here, but they found no problems Wednesday night. (Press-Citizen Photo)

Ray Has Made 'No Plans To Remove Highway Patrol'

DES MOINES (AP) - Gov. Robert Ray said today he hasn't made any plans to remove Iowa Highway Patrolmen from the University of Iowa campus. 
Ray told newsmen he did not want Iowans "to believe they can't send their sons and daughters to our schools. This is the reason we moved very rapidly to quell the disorders' earlier this week, he said
About 200 highway patrolmen were sent to the campus Tuesday at Ray's direction. Tuesday night the patrol encountered demonstrators with six patrolmen receiving injuries serious enough to require medical attention. 
But the patrol encountered few demonstrators Wednesday night as the Iowa City campus was quiet. 
Ray blamed the disturbances on "only a few people - I keep hearing the figure 25 but 50 could be just as accurate. The vast majority of students don't want any part of this activity; they want to be good students and don't want any part of this violence."
Ray told newsmen he thought the disturbances resulted from "an attempt to use the peace movement as rallying point to attract a lot of people - and it did not work," Ray said the disorders then turned into vandalism by a few students, whose numbers grew after tear gas was used by law enforcement officers. 
Ray was asked why such disturbances happened at the University of Iowa and not at other state schools. he said he thought it might be because the University of Iowa stresses social sciences: "Many of these people are attracted to movements toward social reform and a lot of the movement a year ago came from social sciences."

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P-C 5/13/71 After Night of Clam Peace returned to the University of Iowa campus today after several nights of disturbances. Next week is finals week, and many students are spending most of their non-class time with their books. There remain some 200 highway patrolmen here, but they found no problems Wednesday night. (Press-Citizen Photo) Ray Has Made 'No Plans To Remove Highway Patrol' DES MOINES (AP) - Gov. Robert Ray said today he hasn't made any plans to remove Iowa Highway Patrolmen from the University of Iowa campus. Ray told newsmen he did not want Iowans "to believe they can't send their sons and daughters to our schools. This is the reason we moved very rapidly to quell the disorders' earlier this week, he said About 200 highway patrolmen were sent to the campus Tuesday at Ray's direction. Tuesday night the patrol encountered demonstrators with six patrolmen receiving injuries serious enough to require medical attention. But the patrol encountered few demonstrators Wednesday night as the Iowa City campus was quiet. Ray blamed the disturbances on "only a few people - I keep hearing the figure 25 but 50 could be just as accurate. The vast majority of students don't want any part of this activity; they want to be good students and don't want any part of this violence." Ray told newsmen he thought the disturbances resulted from "an attempt to use the peace movement as rallying point to attract a lot of people - and it did not work," Ray said the disorders then turned into vandalism by a few students, whose numbers grew after tear gas was used by law enforcement officers. Ray was asked why such disturbances happened at the University of Iowa and not at other state schools. he said he thought it might be because the University of Iowa stresses social sciences: "Many of these people are attracted to movements toward social reform and a lot of the movement a year ago came from social sciences."