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Kent State Shooting This photograph of a campus scene shows the aftermath of Kent State Shooting, as chaos ensues. The period after Kent State was the most turbulent on college campuses during this era.
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Protest Dance A 1971 poem from the Miscellany mocking outbursts of activism as more so performative than meaningful.
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Summer Soldiers This poem by Ernest Kroll seems to reflect on the passing of time and frailty of life.
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Students Peacefully Protest Two photos of students engaging in peaceful anti-war protests on Davidson's campus.
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ROTC Officer and Students This photo shows a ROTC officer attempting to step over student staging a sit-in protest in an unidentified hallway building.
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ROTC Mission Statement Excerpt These two paragraphs, taken from a document outlining the goals of the ROTC program, specifically describe how ROTC fits into a Davidson student's academic and everyday life.
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The Victor This Inklings poem written in 1975 but published in 1979 broadly speaks on the horrors of war, but does not directly reference Vietnam.
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The Bomb (1975) This poem's published in the 1979 Inklings, but written in 1975 details a narrator that refuses to become an oppressor and join the war effort.
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till the tide hath changed Appearing in Inklings in 1973, "till the tide hath changed" features Vic Fleming's thoughts on being a young man in 1969.
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War Poems This poem appeared in the 1973 edition of Inklings. Referencing the death and destruction caused by the war, Carl Patterson ('73) makes his anti-war perspective explicit.
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Red Ernie in Quips and Cranks 1971 This portrait of Ernest F. Patterson, nicknamed "Red Ernie" by the students, appeared in the 1971 edition of Quips and Cranks. Patterson was known for having anti-war views.
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Davidsonian May 3rd. 1968 Screenshot Political cartoon depicting Davidson students' inward focus on their campus rather than national activism.
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Davidsonian April 5th. 1968 Screenshot A screenshot of a Davidsonian political cartoon that depicts the ROTC as a complete joke and its members as mischevious.
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The Adventures of Harry Harless This creative fiction from The Inklings mocks a student extremist/ counter-culture figure as he destroys the school in an attempt to enforce his radicalism upon everyone else.
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Representative George Brown Guest Speaker George Brown visited campus in 1968 and his visit was commemorated by his strong distrust in the military.
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1968 Quips and Cranks Yearbook Caption #2 Yearbook caption remarking on the general sentiments of college students and their relation to public institutions.
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1968 Quips and Cranks Yearbook Caption #1 Yearbook caption complaining about a lack of sincerity and consistency in student activism and protests efforts.
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War Victims This student poem written in 1969 portrays service in the military as similar to losing one's identity like a leaf that falls from its tree and can only wait to be blown away.
