Box 1

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Contains a statement released to newspapers and wire services about student discovery of bias in the Admissions Office, and their subsequent expulsion from the faculty committee, as well as a letter sent to all Oberlin students by Student Senate explaining the situation.

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Contains material on the Student Senate election campaign of March 1969. Virtually all published platforms are included, as well as campaign regulations, an Oberlin Review supplement on the candidates, a sample ballot, and other campaign memorabilia.

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Contains some of the agendas and papers coming out of Student Senate meetings in the spring of 1969, including the budget for the student activity fee.

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Is the statement of Bruce Ente, the first of the 59 students charged with breaking college rules on student protest, at his trial by a joint faculty-student judicial board. Those of the fifty-nine who were found guilty were given the option of taking a week’s suspension from school and campus or signing a statement that they would never involve themselves in a coercive demonstration at Oberlin again. Mr. Ente chose the week’s suspension.

Scope and Contents Contains material on the brief takeover of the Administration Building in April 1969. In March 1969, just before spring vacation, Jeremy Pikser and other SDS members staged a guerilla theater skit in Professor Robert Tufts’ class. He was outraged and demanded that Carr do something. Carr suspended Pikser, therefore sidestepping the complex judicial system set up a few months earlier that handled the punishment of those tried for the February 1969 sit-in, including Bruce Ente (see folder 24)....

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Contains material on the College Faculty Committee on Student Participation in Faculty Meetings. As a result of the expulsion of the Admissions Committee student members, the faculty charged this committee with creating new ground rules for students on faculty committees. It broke ground for next fall’s admission of 11 students to attend and vote at General Faculty meetings.

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Contains most of the minutes and agendas and papers of the Student Senate in the period from September 1969 to March 1970. There is also a copy of the Student Constitution, as was created by the Student Senate of 1966.

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Contains a smattering of campaign material from the special election of 10 senators in October 1969, following the mass recognition of 10 senators elected in March 1969 that their time would be best spent on town issues. About half followed through on this commitment.

Scope and Contents Contains material on Oberlin’s participation in the October and November 1969 moratoriums. The “practice nonviolence” tag and black armband were worn on the silent vigil announced in the Oberlin News Tribune advertisement. So many people stood at that vigil that Tappan Square was completely ringed with people. The orange “Ohio Marshall” badge armband was worn by certain people in Washington during the November demonstration to keep order within the ranks of Ohioan protestors. It was at this...

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Contains material sent to students who were members of the General Faculty only as voters and speakers beginning in October 1969. Includes the December 15 agenda when President Carr announced his resignation and the material from May when the faculty officially opposed the war in Vietnam and injustice in the courts.