Arts and Letters Colloquium : The University in Peace and War

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This collection contains student papers from the Clark Honors College course HC 421 Honors College Arts and Letters Colloquium: The University in Peace and War. For more information on the course and the Honors College program, consult the College website

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    The Roles of President Clark and the Oregon Daily Emerald In the 1970 Protests on the University of Oregon Campus
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2003-12-11) Hoogerhuis, Mara
    Like many colleges and universities throughout the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the University of Oregon experienced a variety of anti-war student protests on its usually peaceful green campus. Students at the University of Oregon, upset with the unjust war in Vietnam, the draft, and the feeling that their parents’ generation was ignoring their voice and first amendment right to protest, took to the streets and administration buildings their demands for justice. The administrators of the University of Oregon, as well as other demonstration prone universities like UC Berkeley, Columbia, and San Francisco State, faced new challenges as the demonstrations and protests erupted into unprecedented forms of violence and student/faculty/community discontent. Different University Presidents handled the disruptions differently. On the University of Oregon campus, President Robert D. Clark’s voice of reason and calm kept dangerous situations from escalating into uncontrollable ones. The events of the late 1960s and early 1970s, on the microcosm of the university campus, epitomized an era of transition and shifting values among the younger generation of America.
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    Why Here, Why Now? The Story of Student Protest on the University of Oregon Campus, April 1970
    (Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2004-04-14) Hoogerhuis, Mara
    Most people know that the 1960s and early 1970s were volatile years in the United States of America, and particularly for American universities. What many do not know, is that in addition to the well-known protests at Berkeley and Columbia, Kent State and San Francisco State, there are other Universities that experienced these trying times as well. Stories, for example, like the ones that took place on the University of Oregon campus, in Eugene, Oregon: stories that have, for the most part, been lost or forgotten. I ventured into this world of protest and paranoia, students and a changing society, buried deep in the archives at the University of Oregon Library, and came out with a new understanding and appreciation for the lengths that both students and administrators were willing to go to stand up for what they believed.