The Slow Death Of The Student Protest Movement A 1972 Report

The Reader‘s archive is vast and varied, going back to 1971. Every day in Archive Dive, we’ll dig through and bring up some finds.

There was some activity on campus, most notably a voter registration drive that got 4,500 students on the voting rolls and Gay Liberation, which Sunden said was the best-organized activist movement, but he was much more enthusiastic about the price of Coke at the Food Co-op and the activities of the Occult Phenomena Student Research, of which he was the director. Valelly asked him about it:

But mostly, Valelly concluded, everybody was more interested in studying now than in changing the world.