Student Protest and The Law II; The 1970 Scene

Quarto. 29pp. Bound in a Smead Pressboard Binder. 278pp. printed to rectos only. Clean, strong and bright, internally clean, a very good, solid copy. Essentially all of the relevant literature for a two day course on student protests on US campuses, divided into three sections detailed in the text: "The Campus During Crisis" discussing the roles of the faculty, the legality of police involvement in campus protests, the role of student leaders etc.; "The Campus After Crisis" with particular focus on the Kent State atrocity, the makeup of post demonstration tribunals and hearing committees, and a comparison of student rules regarding protest from the perspective of the campus, and when the "rules" are organized from the perspective of the students (the test case here is contributed by the students of UC Berkeley); and the final part, "The Aftermath of Crisis" which contains an article entitled "Universities and Political Involvement: A Tentative Agenda" alongside sections detailing the Free Speech policies of a number of prominent US universities and colleges, the legality of demonstration at various institutions, and a clear inference that campus authorities regularly break the law and behave unconstitutionally when suppressing students exercising their rights to free speech and assembly on the sites set aside for this purpose. 54 years old at the date of cataloging, this academic and extremely considered and detailed text suggests that nothing changes but it stays the same, and that few democratic rights survive their first encounter with aggressive institutional self interest.