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. BJ' Ki"bJ’ StePbe”-‘ involvement in Vietnam. They couldn't seem to —
understand that it was the duty of our government to ‘
We should hold our heads high and be thankful for stop Commmzmist agressian in the free warId—even at the l
how much we havechanged fromourcounterparts of cost of more than 50,000 American lives. Some l
a decade ago at this institution of higher learning. students insisted on holding a moratorium against  
We are the students of the peaceful transition from the war in Vietnam. t
the ’70s into the ’80s. We are nothing like those As long as the radicals were peaceful, they weren't {
l students who rode the waves of turbulence from the too much cause for concern to Pres. Richard Nixon or  
l ’60s into the ’70s. Gov. Louie Nunn. But those radicals just wouldn’t g
l   learn.  
O   In May of ’70 members of their group burned the
P Air Force ROTC building on Euclid Avenue. That was -
  the last straw. What else could Nunn do but station `
250 National Guardsmen on campus to save what was A
Remember that year? left from the szilwrersizies. [
University of Kentucky, 1969—70—Students were It wasn't just the Vietnam issue those left-wingers   ` ·
` ` voicing peaceful protest to the United States' were protesting about. They went as far as to   .
condemn the coal companies for strip mining the hills ;
T   in Eastern Kentucky and then not reclaiming the land.  
All the yippies had to do was ask the coal company e
Forsornestudentsof1979-80,thebasketballcourtsa@acenttoBlazer executives about COI-PO;-ate profits and they would  
Hallprovideaplace to dance tbeir cares away. The charred remains of have understood Why the land was left in A destroyed {
tbe ROTC building (facing page) once stood wbere tbe courts are now. ‘
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were ways of calling attention to tbeir outcry for cbange. But the PYOWSTEYS Couldn t Step Wlth this nature .
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