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Language
English (en)
Date of Award
1979
Author's Department
History
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Restricted/Unrestricted
Restricted
Abstract
Washington Ut1iversity, like many other colleges in the 1960s, underwent a period of student activism concerned primarily with American military involvement in Vietnam. This study describes the ways in which Washington University students responded to the issues of the war and alleged University complicity in the government's war policy. Furthermore, it seeks to explain the reasons why students on the hilltop responded as they did, working through available institutional channels until these seemed fruitless, then disrupting regular University functions in an effort to attract attention and force changes. From the time of the organization of a chapter of Students for a Democratic Society in 1965 until the emotional climax of activism in 1970, conflict marked the relationship between the politically active segment of the student body and the University administration. In March and December 1968, March 1969, and March and May 1970 the relationship was one of serious confrontation. All five of these in8tances of confrontation seem to have resulted from frustration with the University's apparent role in the war, and the latter two occurred when institutional communication no longer existed between students and the administration.
Recommended Citation
Thomas, Daniel Gray, "Birds of Passage: Student Activism at Washington University, 1965-1972" (1979). Senior Honors Papers / Undergraduate Theses. 74.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/undergrad_etd/74
Comments
Print version held by University Archives, https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b1262346~S2