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SERVING THE CAUSE Kfsussui Gr 3YW ■• 51 M 7 I GE. f -**■■* taMM^w-"' —-—j ■ ■TT^ ■Al^Hk' 1 So From the 1970 Spectrum. March 16 accurately described it as "the most colorful, provocative, and exhausting Awareness Week this college has yet seen."3" Six weeks after Symposium 70, when President Richard Nixon ordered American troops to invade Cambodia, presumably in an effort to force the North Vietnamese to agree to peace terms acceptable to the Americans, students on campuses all over the country erupted in revolt. The Ohio governor ordered the national guard to restore order in the town of Kent and on the campus of Kent State University. During the days which followed, four students were killed and eleven were wounded. Many Gettysburg students joined the nationwide protest by sending letters to Washington and persuading the faculty to suspend classes for two more days of wide- ranging discussions. By a large majority, the faculty took the most unusual step (in justifying it, one faculty member remarked that the times were most unusual) of deploring the expansion of the war and calling upon the president to withdraw all American troops from Cambodia and Vietnam. The crisis was sufficiently unnerving to some that the faculty gave students several options for completing their semester's work, one of which permitted delay into the fall semester. When they met in June, the trustees commended Arnold Hanson and those who worked with him "on their overall handling of the affairs of this institution during the year just passed and particularly because of their ability to meet the situation of the college community and keep 333Many students organized and directed Symposium 70, but the one most responsible for it was the senate president, Geoffrey Curtiss. Symposium 70 is a good example of positive, constructive student activism, designed to bring together rather than to tear apart. 100