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fprmer Rep. Dan Thompson, Dist. 13,
introduced a bill condemning a U.S.
congressman’s vote in favor of partial
birth abortion. The bill failed.
“I said that has nothing to do with an
education issue and nothing to do with
UNC," said Rep. Bryan Kennedy, Dist.
4, a “moderate Democrat.”
Kennedy said he believed student
government should concern itself with
issues “directly linked” to UNC.
But that’s a delicate distinction for
some. Affirmative action policies are
being challenged at other schools across
the country. Does that mean Student
Body President Mo Nathan should pub
licly support affirmative action at UNC?
VIETNAM
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recruiting by Dow Chemical Corp.,
maker of the incendiary Napalm, which
Americans were dropping on Vietnam.
Though nonviolent, the sit-in resulted 15
student arrests.
A day after the sit-in, five female stu
dents gathered around the flag pole in
Polk Place. Dressed as Vietnamese peas
ants, they performed a long depiction of
the suffering of the Vietnamese people.
Increasing anxieties
In April, between 300 and 500 stu
dents staged an all-day rally in
McCorkle Place to protest the war. The
rally coincided with a nationwide walk
out from classes staged by other colleges
and universities.
In November, uniformed soldiers
from Fort Bragg arrived on campus and
distributed anti-war leaflets during
Homecoming.
“There was a lot of anxiety among
me and my peers about being drafted
and losing our lives in Vietnam,”
recalled Chancellor Michael Hooker,
who graduated from UNC in 1969.
By the end of 1968, the Vietnam War
faded, replaced by race, a topic that hit
much closer to home.
“I think a lot of energy went into civil
rights because it seemed like it was eas
ier to make a difference there than at the
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Immediately, public approval of the
war plunged from an already-low 40 per
cent to 26 percent.
At the time, students were making
headlines protesting the war and fighting
for civil rights.
“By 1968, protest becomes not a
fringe activity but an act continually
identified with going to college,” said
Michael Hunt, Emerson professor of
history.
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For Nathan, it’s pretty dear that one
of the qualities his constituents recog
nized in him was his support of a
diverse campus. Thus, openly discussing
his thoughts on affirmative action is not
misrepresenting the students he serves.
It’s part of his job, he said.
“I always knew that if this issue
affected the students of this University,
then I would have to be educated, and I
would have to provide some direction
for students,” he said.
For the most part, though, Nathan
believes it’s his duty to simply represent
the greatest possible number of students.
“Students don’t elect you for your
political views,” he said. “If you’ve been
elected by 2,500 people, you feel a
responsibility to push your political
views aside.”
national level regarding our foreign pol
icy,” Hooker said.
Over the course of the next semester,
food service workers went on strike,
effectively shutting down Lenoir Dining
Hall, and Gov. Bob Scott sent in-state
troopers to expel protesters forcibly from
Manning Hall. But the anti-war move
ment was relatively quiet.
Classes cut, finals canceled
By fall of 1969, however, anti-war
sentiment re-emerged. Many students
and some faculty participated in a
nationwide walk-out from classes.
“Support Vietnam War Moratorium
Today. Cut Classes, Participate in
Activities,” read the headline in the
DTH on Oct. 15,1969.
A reported 60 percent of students
missed at least one class, and students,
faculty, staff and others from the com
munity marched down Franklin Street.
A few days later, rows of white wooden
crosses Med Polk Place, honoring the
soldiers who died in Vietnam.
After fall semester 1969, things quiet
ed down until May 1970 when President
Richard Nixon sent troops into
Cambodia, broadening the fighting in
Southeast Asia when students across the
nation rose up in protest.
On May 4, before students had time
to react, National Guard troops opened
fire on student protesters at Kent State
University in Ohio, killing six.
ry of the Vietnam War, spent two sum
mers in Saigon in 1962 and 1963 with
his father, who was serving in the U.S.
military mission.
So if going to sit-ins was once as
important as sitting in on class, what
happened?
While critics charge that today’s stu
dents are politically apathetic, some
scholars suggest the 1960s may have
turned students away from politics.
“The ’6os is when youth culture takes
form, and since then students enter a
world defined by pure culture,” Hunt
said. That's a world where movies and
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Still, Nathan and his liberal prede
cessors have found plenty of opposition
in Congress, which has leaned farther
and farther right in recent years.
Though the group itself might not
have a conservative majority, many of
its leaders are conservative. Hoffman,
Speaker Pro Temp Kristen Sasser and
several committee chairmen are all firm
ly planted on the political right.
Hoffman said conservatives are work
ing harder to see their own elected.
“What it all comes down to is that the
people who are running for Congress
are conservative," he said.
And in a group in which debate is
integral, the conservative-liberal conflict
might have more bark than bite.
The executive branch, which is
designed to work toward consensus, will
The following day, more than 2,000
people spontaneously rallied on Polk
Place.
“After we had all said our piece, we
had to figure out what to do next,"
Schwartz said. “We formed a steering
group, one that got establishment
groups on campus—groups like the fac
ulty and the Morehead Scholars
involved with students and staff.”
The next day, between 4,000 and
6,000 students, faculty, staff and town
residents marched down Franklin Street,
chanting anti-war slogans and shutting
down the University. Students stopped
attending classes, and many faculty
members stopped teaching
“Nobody in the administration
thought for a moment that it would hap
pen here at Carolina. It was a shock. I
was shocked,” said Schwartz, one of the
most actively involved faculty members.
A few days after the Chapel Hill
protests, more than 8,000 students from
across North Carolina staged a protest.
While hundreds of students waited out
side Hill Hall, the faculty to cancel class,
and the semester ended early.
“We thought it would be more edu
cational to let the students go home and
try to let others in their hometowns, the
opinion leaders, know why we opposed
the war,” Schwartz said. “But it was the
end of May, and all the students went to
the beach. That was essentially the end
of the anti-war movement on campus.”
music come to define a generation, not
politics and protest.
“And Vietnam plays an important
role accentuating youth alienation,”
Hunt added.
Vietnam and Watergate, in the late
1960 sand early 19705, brought almost
daily revelations of covert operations by
once-trusted federal officials. Youth and
adults grew skeptical that government
was there to serve the American people.
“Politics became something older
people do, something adults do,” Hunt
said. “If students can’t enter the world of
adults, they can’t enter politics.”
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