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increase gver 35 recent gi year as 198} Student protests erupt on the compus in l970.
President Singletary and his
administration devoted mueh time and a year of ferment, it seemed as though firmness to avoid the panic that might
effort to cultivating private giving The the term would end without a campus have plunged the University into
yields increased enormously. upheaval. Then, as the saying goes, tragedy. The events of that week are
This success reflected a change in "All hell broke loose." Campuses recalled mainly by the words, Kent
attitude among the public and alumni erupted across the nation after the State, which became part of the
and an enlarged understanding of the Cambodian invasion, and at Kent collective memory of American higher
University. Public universities, like State University National Guardsmen education.
private institutions, need to supplement shot four demonstrating students on After those May days, student
income from traditional sources and May 4th. activism expressed its aspirations in
V alumni and friends are responding to At a board meeting the next day, the more responsible ways and received
this need. new student government president more attentive hearing. When a student
Another source of external funding is announced a demonstration for the trustee addressed the complaint of
private and government research grants following day. The board postponed student under-representation in the
and contracts. These amounted to commencement. University Senate by proposing an
$12.5 million in 1968-1969; $26 million The next two days were the most increase of student membership from
‘ in 1977-1978, and $38.4 million in dangerous the campus ever knew. five to 40, his proposal was seen as an
 ` 1984-1985. The total for 1985-1986 Gatherings of students and strangers attempt to win for students the balance
was a little over $51 million. That is the milled about in the vicinity of Barker of power in situations when faculty
i largest one-year leap since the Hall, headquarters of ROTC. The city might be divided. The trustees accepted
Kentucky Research Foundation began police were present, and the governor a compromise number of 18.
to administer grants and contracts 40 called out units of the National Guard. As one trustee said at the time, it was
years ago. Arrests of demonstrators occurred but not always easy to be a trustee in those
Along with the financial pressures there was no untoward violence. A fire days. Later the Senate membership was
1 upon the University in 1969-1970, ruined the Euclid Avenue classroom recast to 125 faculty and 25 students.
there was a drumfire of complaints building and had a sobering effect. The The administration encouraged the
from student activists conditioned by campus quieted down and the semester widening of a student role in a way that
the unsettling persistence of the melted away. fostered a sense of responsibility.
Vietnam war. Most students had enough good Student—l`aculty participation
Toward the end of April, 1970, after sense and the administration enough became institutionalized and is now
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