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WSU's Radical Union Guerilla Theater produces a mock trial on the CUB mall. The subjects of the trial are an unnamed "toad" and "tuna" standing in for Placement Bureau head Walter Bristol and WSU President Glenn Terrell. The image featured in this…

This poster for a racism workshop in response to the 1970 Student Strike at Washington State University features the image of Uncle Sam. The face of Uncle Sam consists of three different skin tones to reflect different racial groups on the Washington…

Reporting in Colfax for their first weekend in jail, five African American students charged in the Alpha Gamma Rho brawl are prevented from entering the courthouse by 75 students from different colleges who support them; they and all involved spent…

President Terrell releases his (mostly negative) response to the eleven demands.

Portraits of the Washington State University football players from the program for the 11/18/1972 football game between Washington State University and the University of Washington (page 19). This page is part of the digital exhibit about student…

Portraits of the Washington State University football players from the program for the 11/23/1968 football game between Washington State University and the University of Washington (page 16). This page is part of the digital exhibit about student…

The fall's third Moratorium includes panel discussions and picketing outside Todd and Sloan Halls.

28 x 22 cm. handout, 2 pages. This joint statement of several Washington State University campus activist groups lays out eleven steps that they feel the university must enact as a minimum commitment against racism.

President Nixon sends U.S. troops across the Vietnamese border into Cambodia, which is being used as a sanctuary by the People's Army of Vietnam (they can strike at South Vietnam forces and U.S. forces and then withdraw into Cambodian territory and…

On October 1st, the ASWSU Senate votes to take no stand against the Vietnam War, but reverses their stand on October 8th. Events at WSU's Moratorium include discussions, speeches by Governor Dan Evans and Spokane civil rights attorney Carl Maxey,…

A Molotov cocktail is thrown into a basement hallway of Waller Hall, but quickly extinguished by the residents. Three other arson fires occur in Waller in the weeks around this.

MEChA recruits in the CUB lobby for its weekly picketing of Pullman's Safeway store, asking people to refuse to buy grapes.

WSU MEChA pickets Pullman's Safeway in support of the National Farm Labor Union. The boycott of Safeway would include a raid as part of a larger protest in March.

Students from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington march in protest of the Vietnam War. Students hold signs that read "Stop the Draft", "Fuck War", and other anti-war sentiments.

A left-wing campus organization of motorcycle-riding professors and grad students (the UAWMFMC, known informally as the "Mothers") hosts a nine-hour kegger benefit of the Seattle Black Panthers' free medical clinics.

An all-day Indochina teach-in is held in the CUB ballroom; classes are cancelled so students can attend. This was one of the demands that President Terrell had agreed to in ending the "Fort French" occupation.

Several hundred draft protesters march from campus to the Selective Service (draft) office, and after police break that up, many march into three grocery stores to participate in a grape boycott protest. The protesters do minor damage to the stores,…

Hundreds of students occupy the French Administration Building ("Fort French"), refusing to leave until President Terrell submits to their demands. The WSU protest is one of many across the nation on May 5 protesting the Kent State University…

During a protest against the invasion of Cambodia, four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed when National Guardsmen open fire on the protesters.

Four male black WSU students, including the head of the Black Student Union, are arrested and charged with "willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, perpetrating an act of sexual Intercourse with a female, not his wife, by forcefully overcoming her…

Washington state Selective Service administrator Chester Chastek is invited to speak at a 3:00-5:00 forum, but the event ends after just 75 minutes due to the hostility of the attending students.

WSU announces that that fall, for the first time, some campus dorms (Orton, Neill, Streit, Perham) will be co-ed.

Carlton Lewis is elected ASWSU President. He is the first African American to fill that role in the school?s history. The image featured in this item may be found in the Hilltopics Photograph Collection (pc123b7f1_lewiscarlton.tif).

The view of the destroyed south grandstand of Roger Field on the campus of Washington State University. The Fine Arts building, which was being built at the time, can be seen in the background. The stands were destroyed in a fire (later determined to…

On the campus of Washington State University, early morning light reveals the damage done by a Rogers Field fire the night before. Picture is taking looking at the stand from the field It was later determined that the cause of the fire was arson.

Fire rages through the south grandstand of Rogers Field (1902-1972) on the campus of Washington State University. The main south grandstand was destroyed.

Glowing pieces of the burning grandstands at Rogers Field, on the campus of Washington State University.

The Resident Instruction Staff (RIS) announces students may petition to have their grades based on work done to that point in the term, effectively making finals optional.

Commencement goes off without a hitch; President Terrell is cheered when he commends the demonstrators for their dedication to non-violence. The image featured in this item may be found in the Paul Philemon Kies Photograph Collection…

28 x 22 cm. handbill, 1 page. 11 demands from Chicano Studies, echoing the 11 Third World demands, to help reduce racism.