Viking_Yearbook_70

FOUR YEARS- ARECAP 1966/67. ASPSC president Joe Uris wel– comed a class whose enrollment had dropped. Students had their first option to rent at the Viking Residence Hall. The Vanguard ran a hopeful editorial on the football season. The first student protest– they marched against Hubert Humphrey at the Sheraton in suits and ties. A student strike was called on programs run by the . Activities' Establishment· students demand– ed greater representation. PSU had a home· coming. Talk was of having pass-no pass P.E., but that was clobbered by P.E. heads. Timothy Leary came to PSU and played to more than a cognitive crowd. The Provos ladled soup freely for the police's Big Drug Bust. Stokely Carmichael black crusaded and Allen Ginsberg read poetry, clothed. 1967/68. Tuition rose. Enrollment dropped. President Branford Millar resigned. Parking permits were issued and available. PSU had another homecoming- apparently its last. There was a Black Student Union. Draft protestors marched down Sixth Avenue wearing masks of napalmed children. Police shut down a theatre-dance happening in the Ballroom and students went home to com– munes. Eugene McCarthy came and attacked the war. Robert Kennedy came and attacked the war. A first SDS demonstration-against Dow recruiters on campus. Navy officials talked of recruiting elsewhere. Pass-no pass grading was approved, but only for request– ed courses. University status by 72, said state senator Ross Morgan. 1968/69. President Gregory Wolfe came. He started with 10,000 students and added two Task Forces. Pass-no pass grades became an option. The Times, a new student paper, started and folded. A student was evicted from the Viking Residence Hall for long hair. PSC lost its first five football games, despite a new coach. Football was ques– tioned. A shutdown was proposed. Ques– tions arose in the general discussion about the university's purposes. The college elected its first black student body president and became PSU. 1969/ 70. Papa John's was bought and sold, at, last and another tradition succumbed to concrete. A series of anti-war protests and moratoriums culminated in campus closure and violence. President Wolfe found a new home. Sororities came back on campus. A new rally squad was chosen. Three student body presidents came and went. Those who graduated were relieved, no doubt, that it was over.