Saturday, April 29, 1972
Student Protests Set Off By Speech
Several hundred students at four universities demonstrated Wednesday night to protest President Nixon's televised announcement that the bombing of North Vietnam would continue.After the President's speech, about 400 to 500 protesters took over the main administration building at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. They said they would remain until the university scraps its ROTC program and sells stock in four corporations that do defense work.In Bloomington, Ind., about 500 Indiana University students marched to the Monroe County Courthouse in a demonstration demanding the end to the war.About 400 students at Columbia University in New York City hooted and jeered as they watched the President on television in an auditorium.A group of 150 New York University students gathered at their Washington Square campus after the speech and marched to Times Square for a brief demonstration."Student Protests Set Off by Speech", by (AP) published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Saturday, April 29, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.