Radical student groups get more local attention as they try and organize cancellation of classes as part of the National Vietnam Moratorium.
"Moratorium Planning Reaches
Final Stages"
This article offers numbers of partipants, adding a sense of the scope of the event.
The Cavalier Daily, October 14, 1969
"Shannon Bars Cancellation
of October 15 Classes"
Shannon maintains a "business as usual" stance as he denies Council's request to cancel classes for Moratorium day. Note the incredible shift in tone when he speaks out against Nixon's sending more troops to Cambodia in May of 1970. The article at the bottom right speculates further about the curious "bugging" device in the BOV room.
The Cavalier Daily, October 7, 1969
"Shannon to Consider Request
for Moratorium"
One of the ironies of the Moratorium is that Student Council president Bob Ogle asked permission from President Shannon to cancel classes for Moratorium Day. Asking permission to strike seems peculiar, but as a matter of fact, this conciliatory attitude framed much of the pre-1970 anti-war activity at the University. The Cavalier Daily, September 30, 1969
"The Vietnam War Must End
Now"
This article gives the national scope of the Vietnam protests and explains how college campuses will be used for the purposes of the October 15 Moratorium. The Cavalier Daily, September 22, 1969
Vietnam Moratorium
Across the nation, universities cancelled classes on October 15, 1969 in order to spend the day protesting the war in Vietnam. While Shannon refused to officially cancel classes on behalf of the protest, he allowed professors to use their own judgment about holding classes. The Moratorium Committee organized a rally and speakers that day on the Lawn, but all remained fairly peaceful and certainly contained. October 15, 1969
Anonymous Note to Shannon
When Shannon deliberated over student requests to cancel classes in observation of the nationwide Vietnam Moratorium, he received this anonymous letter. Shannon, as time would tell, was unable to guard his educational institution from the pull of politics.
September 28, 1969
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