After the Kent State Shootings: Bowling Green State University's Reaction

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Kent State Shootings at Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University 70_05_20_Brown

TEI Letters

2017 Mathew Sweet Created the initial version of the article
2017 Mathew Sweet Converted to TEI
Mary T. Brown Ohio May 20, 1970 William T. Jerome
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May 20, 1970

President
Bowling Green State University

Dear President:

As a teacher and counselor at the high school level I
am doing something for the silent majority, I am sending this
letter to fifty (50) Governors and fifty (50) Presidents of
colleges.

I am terribly disturbed with the violence and the complete
breakdown of freedom on many college campuses by minorities.

I do not understand College Presidents who blame the
President of the United States
, the war in Vietnam, the draft for
the unlawful acts of faculty members and students. Harvard, Yale,
Cornell, Berkely at one time great universities taken over by
mobs. Insane chanting by radicals win many concessions.

What is a college education today? Is it a license to
hold unlawful meetings, to incite riots, to stir up hate against
the government, to bomb, to burn, to commit treason? The
majority of students and faculty members on most college
campuses want an academic education not a revolution.

I pray to God that the majority of College Presidents
like Eric Walker at Pennsylvania State University will continue
to be worthy of their office. These are the Presidents today
who are saving our freedom.

Sincerely yours,

Mary T. Brown
Counselor
Technical Memorial High School
Erie, Pennsylvania

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Enclosure
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May 27, 1970

Miss Mary T. Brown
Counselor
Technical Memorial High School
Erie, Pennsylvania


Dear Miss Brown:

Thank you for your letter of May 20 expressing your
concern about what is happening on our college campuses.
I share your concern.

Though we were fortunate at Bowling GreenBowling Green State University not to
have any violence or loss of property, the winds of change
are blowing ominously.

Cordially,

Wm. Travers Jerome III
President

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