James,

l have enclosed a clipping from a local paper and the front and editorial pages from the campus paper, both from the day after the violence here. Thousands of students were outraged by the police action, and many boycotted classes the rest of the week. Numerous mass rallies were held, and on Sat. perhaps 3000 joined in a silent march with black armbands from the campus to the state capitol. (They had planned to march to the police station, but decided to avoid confronting the police.) On Sun. about 300 joined in a prayer vigil on Bascom Hill for "prayers of reconciliation and meditation on the events of Wed." A number of campus clergy including Betsy Gwynn and Bob Trobaugh participated. A special faculty meeting was called for the day after the violence, and when they recessed until the following Mon. without taking a stand on the violence (except to vote support for the Chancellor's action) students confronted them by forming long silent corridors for them to pass through as they left the meeting. A number of faculty members commented that this was the most effective thing the students had done. Students voted to call off the student strike on the recommendation of their steering committee at a Sun. night rally, and at the final session of their special meeting on Mon. the faculty approved a resolution expressing regret at the violence and setting up a student-faculty committee to study modes of response to future obstruction, etc.