![]() ![]() I had a class in Bowman Hall, and I had a Guardsman right outside the door. “Guards were there in front of the buildings, on the street,” Joseph Sima, then a junior, remembered of school that morning. ![]() By then, the only certainty seemed to be that thousands of Kent State students would be swept up-by intent, circumstance, or proximity-in a noon rally that the National Guard clearly had no intent of allowing. gathering with National Guard commanders, White and his brain trust left for an off-campus luncheon meeting. Then, shortly after the conclusion of a 10:00 a.m. meeting of his cabinet and an eight o’clock one with the executive committee of the faculty senate. Top administrators fretted over what was to come-President White had called a 7:00 a.m. ![]() Professors preached caution, or encouraged opposition to authority, or in some cases even tried to lead it. Monday morning, May 4, 1970, found Kent State a place strangely divided against itself: part university, part military installation a school where students were encouraged to gather in classrooms but prohibited from doing so on the campus Commons. ![]()
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