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Power to the (correct) People!

Campus protest rally


Vietnam War protest rally at Bronson Park, Kalamazoo

7,000 students marched this day



Feeling caged and helpless

Marching from WMU campus to downtown Kalamazoo



The night of protesting the earlier closing hours of the student union

The night of protesting the earlier closing hours of the student union

The cops were primed for action

The State Police moved in to clear Michigan Avenue through campus

This is the night I was arrested for "unlawful assembly".

Clearing the street through campus

Stressing out for reasons unknown

Free jams in the Valley

Free jams in the Valley

Hitchhiking was common and accepted in the 1960s

No I.D., no law-breaker will he be

Hitchhiking was common and accepted in the 1960s

A 7-Up aficionado

Chemistry class

Crowd for an anti-war speaker in a campus lecture hall

Crowd for an anti-war speaker in a campus lecture hall

Greek games

Crowd for an anti-war speaker in a campus classroom

anti-war speaker

Everly Brothers wanna-bees

Homecoming antics

Greeks at Homecoming parade

football fans

Mimes were an ever-present threat

unknown band

unknown

Greek Games

Homecoming

Outdoor concert in the Valley


Check the price, and the insinuation.

Campus radio station

Borgess School of Nursing graduates, Kalamazoo MI

Nursing School students

cross-country track

Campus student government officers

unknown

Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Legal and allowed.

WMU basketball

Greek Games: VW races

Greek Games

Student group hosting city kids for Christmas party

"Kennedy", a folk singer



Early computer machinery



Campus newspaper management/editors

goofing off

VW Beetles were the big thing in the 1060s

Old-fashioned telephone operator

unknown location

A classic Pontiac ambulance

Rates at the new campus parking deck

Peace to the anti-war marchers

The Fortran computer office

WMU's first computer

WMU's first computer

WMU's first computer area

WMU's first computer setup

Plenty of seating in the new campus library

The card catalogue

The new library

Please take one

More trouble with students

Trouble at the high school too

Protesting at a job fair on campus

Too much noise? Was this a Greek joke?

packing 'em in for something or other, unknown


Anti-war protesters sleep-in/out

Entertainer Stu Mitchell


Football homecoming queen and court

Just chilling

unknown student

Boxed lunches were devoured

African family on campus

Winters were brutal in Kalamazoo

Summers were better



At the campus radio station, spinning 45s.

Swim team winners (from Ohio U)

Chemistry class

Homecoming parade

Homecoming parade

Sorority girls?

Never without her guitar

Sorority women?

toward the new library


Time off at the fountain

Kent State shooting aftermath

Campus bookstore, first week of classes

Protests seemed never-ending

A professor stops to interact with the protesters

Big anti-war rally

Note the broken windows in the background

One of the more privileged kids on campus

WMU President Miller talks with protesters

WMU President Miller talks with protesters

Anti-war sit-in at the County Courthouse, Kalamazoo

Sometime one just needs to play and dance.

Back when newspapers were newspapers

Kalamazoo

At Western Michigan University, 1968
