Box 2

Contains material on an organization known as Republicans and Democrats United for Peace that sprouted from the October Moratorium and whose membership included faculty, students and town citizens, with no distinctions or exclusions made.

Contains a fairly complete collection of campaign material from the Student Senate Election campaign of March 1970. During the course of the campaign, all candidates agreed to take down any posters they had, because of sabotage to the United Black Party’s posters.

Contains material on Oberlin College following the U.S. secret action in Cambodia as explained by Nixon, and the events at Kent Sate University. It included material from the demonstration in Washington and the events of that night at the Washington Cathedral.

Contains material on the demonstration against trustee Erin Griswold’s actions as the U.S. Solicitor General at the Commencement of the class of 1971. It was during the speech by Ms. Forsythe that underclassmen (women) dressed in hooded black robes with white face make-up proceeded up the aisles, as black balloons were released above the commencement grouping of people in Tappan Square.

Anti-library leaflet distributed on campus the week of Commencement.

Contains two different copies of the Lorain County Free Press, which began to publish with start-up funds from the Oberlin Resistance. It was founded by Bill Hedges and was put together by members and supporters of his commune in Lorain. It ceased publication when Mr. Hedges left for Canada after jumping bail on a draft evasion charge.

Contains 3 issues of The Activist, the Oberlin political journal.

Contains two copies of the student course evaluation handbook, an innovation created by the Student Educational Plans and Policies Committee under the leadership of Kalman Resnick ('70). They were considered essential by most students.

Is a copy of a booklet, Student Perspectives on Oberlin College, an offshoot of an Experimental College course titled “Institutional Analysis of Oberlin College."