![]() They included students, faculty and staff, even though faculty marshals at the door were warning that this is “illegal – forcible entry”įroines showed up to speak to the students. Throughout the night, though, many people – some estimated as many as 150 – entered the building. It’s yours – let’s go.” Most of the hundred or so people milling around were less convinced that this was a good idea. Gail Schnitzer’s story in The Athens Messenger said someone broke the glass on a locked door and shouted, “Now, it’s open. A new library had been built, and the building had been standing vacant for about a year. (Click on the photos to make them larger.) The ‘liberation’ of Chubb LibraryĪfter the rally broke up, some of the students headed to the Main Green to the Chubb Library. John Froines of the Chicago Eight was of the speakers. It started with a rally in Grover Center attended by more than 2,000. It’s getting harder and harder for me to find photos of that era that I haven’t published, but here is what happened when Ohio University students occupied the vacant Chubb Library on the Athens campus. The message, reminding me that on May 4, four students at Kent State were killed by National Guardsmen showed up like always. I wondered if this would be the first year I wouldn’t get the usual cryptic message from John: “May 4 – Never Forget.”Īll is still right with the world. Cox sold our paper to another Chain on the first of May. Lopinot and I took buyouts from The Palm Beach Post 10 years ago this summer. ![]()
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