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University of Iowa anti-war protests, 1970

1999-05-08 Iowa City Press-Citizen Article: ""Readers share more memories of UI riots"" Page 1

[[underlined]] Iowa City Press-Citizen [[/underlined]] May 8, 1999 [May 1970 protests] 

History Mystery Johnson County Historical Society

Readers share more memories of UI riots
Here in Johnson County in 1970, following a week of protests, UI students were given the option of leaving school on May 10 and accepting their grades as they stood; or staying to finish classes and complete their semester finals. Almost 12,000 students took the early-out option; and decamped for home or summer jobs. 
UI was just one of hundreds of U.S. college campuses which had exploded in bitter protest over the ongoing war in Vietnam, the recent U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and the shootings of four young people during campus anti-war demon-strations at Ohio Kent States University. 
We invited responses from anyone who might remember that week of unrest and strong feeling. Three local readers penned lengthy responses from widely disparate viewpoints: Last week Hisory Mystery featured the reminiscences of William Kurth, now of Coralville, who was a freshman UI student at the time of the riots.
UI Professor Emeritus Stow Persons also penned his memories. Because he was a UI faculty member and chairman of the Faculty Senate, Persons recollections are from an entirely difference perspective than Kurth. 
Williams Kurth had remembered that the first night of student unrest started out as a panty raid, and quickly degenerated into confusion as students argued about whether to protest
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[[underlined]] Iowa City Press-Citizen [[/underlined]] May 8, 1999 [May 1970 protests] History Mystery Johnson County Historical Society Readers share more memories of UI riots Here in Johnson County in 1970, following a week of protests, UI students were given the option of leaving school on May 10 and accepting their grades as they stood; or staying to finish classes and complete their semester finals. Almost 12,000 students took the early-out option; and decamped for home or summer jobs. UI was just one of hundreds of U.S. college campuses which had exploded in bitter protest over the ongoing war in Vietnam, the recent U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and the shootings of four young people during campus anti-war demon-strations at Ohio Kent States University. We invited responses from anyone who might remember that week of unrest and strong feeling. Three local readers penned lengthy responses from widely disparate viewpoints: Last week Hisory Mystery featured the reminiscences of William Kurth, now of Coralville, who was a freshman UI student at the time of the riots. UI Professor Emeritus Stow Persons also penned his memories. Because he was a UI faculty member and chairman of the Faculty Senate, Persons recollections are from an entirely difference perspective than Kurth. Williams Kurth had remembered that the first night of student unrest started out as a panty raid, and quickly degenerated into confusion as students argued about whether to protest See RIOTS/4B