From the New York Times - May 2, 1970
The resurgance of campus antiwar sentiment – with Cambodian developments as its central issue – took a variety of forms yesterday and included the following incidents:
Two National Guard units were put on alert by Gov. Marvin Mandel of Maryland after students at the University of Maryland clashed with the state police following a rally and a hit-and-run attack on the R.O.T.C. headquarters on the College Park Campus.
About 2,300 Princeton University Students and faculty members voted to strike until at least Monday afternoon, when a mass meeting is scheduled: this will conclude a boycott of all social functions during this “Houseparties” week-end.
A student strike at Stanford University developed into a rock-throwing melee on the California campus: police used teargas to disperse the demonstrators.
About 1,000 persons, mostly University of Cinncinati students, marches from the campus to a downtown Cincinnati intersection, where they staged a 90 minute sit-in until the police, who arrested 145 of the demonstrators dispersed the crowd.
In Philadelphia, a stalled National Guard tank gave Temple University studens a prop for staging an antiwar demonstration on Broad Street, near the site of a campus protest rally.
In Appleton, Wis, about 500 students from high schools and Lawrence University walked out of their classrooms and marched to the county courthouse.
By voice vote, the Stanford University faculty requested that its smaller 53-member legislative senate consider a resolution condemning President Nixon’s action in Cambodia as “unwise, immoral, and hostile.” In a telegram to Mr. Nixon, Stanford’s President, Kenneth Pitzer, called the Cambodia troop commitment “a mistake of the gravest kind.”
At Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J., about 1,000 students shouted their approval of an immediate and indefinite student strike.
MEETING AT PENN TODAY
Student Strikes or meetings to discuss taking such action were planned by a number of other colleges and universities. About 5000 students are expected to gather this afternoon at the University of Pennsylvania to plan such a boycott through the southeast Pennsylvania – southern New Jersey region.
Other protest action – its form often not yet delineated – is planned by antiwar groups on many campuses, including the University of Texas in Austin; Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, N.J., and Purdue University in West Lafayette Ind.
A resolution suggesting the impeachment of President Nixon was adopted by 68 members of the Cornell University faculty, who said that although they supported Congressional moves to censure the President, “we believe that the President’s unconstitutional action suggests that the appropriate Congressional resolution is one of impeachment.”
In Washington, the National Student Association also called on the House of Representatives to start impeachment proceedings against the President, saying that “the U.S. invasion of Cambodia,” was “an obvious disregard for the Constitution of the United States.”
The group’s statement also said “We plan to rally students throughout the country urging them to enslist the support of their campus and community,” in asking their Congressmen “to take action and assume their constitutional responsibility to check the President’s use of power and put those powers to declare war and raise armies back where the Founding Fathers meant them to be – in the hands of the Congress, elected by the people.
In Lansing Mich, Wayne State University and University of Michigan students announces that they would hold a protest rally on May 14, and State Representative Jacking Vaughn 3d, a Democrat from Detroit, said that he would attach to another bill a request for a statewide referendum on whether Michigan residents should be sent to fight in Southeast Asia. An antiwar demonstration on the Wayne campus, in Detroit, is scheduled for Tuesday.
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