After four people were fatally shot by members of the Ohio National Guard during a protest at Kent State University on this day in 1970, young activists “restored breath to a country that had seemed in many ways close to extinction,” Roger Angell wrote.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about last week—surely the most critical week this nation has endured in more than a century—is that its agonies and bitterness could yield, just a little and at the end, to a stubborn hope. Only the very young are capable of such a quick and deep swing of emotions, but the week belonged to the young; they provided its victims, its rage and energy, most of its history, and all of its sense of a future reopened.
More than four hundred colleges and universities across the country were closed by student strikes or by faculty decision, and many administrators, including such heroic friends as President Kingman Brewster, of Yale, suggested that this forsaking of education was a sacrifice inappropriate to the occasion. We disagree. Last week, there appeared a new national campus, which will be kept open, now and for months to come, at all costs.
We don’t believe that President Nixon agrees with these interlocking conclusions that the young presented to the nation last week. In spite of his dawn journey to the Lincoln Memorial to meet a handful of students, in spite of his protestation at his press conference that “everything I stand for is what they want,” we don’t believe that he yet understands or much respects the young.
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