Newspaper article describing an incident wherein the former president of the University of California, Clark Kerr, was attacked with a pie while delivering a speech at IU. The assailant was Jim Retherford, onetime IU student and former editor of the…

Newspaper article describing the assembly of thousands of IU students in recognition of the nationwide Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. The demonstration stayed largely peaceful throughout, although there were some windows broken in Rawles Hall…

Newspaper article describing the IU Faculty Council's decision to support the students' right to peaceful protest on the upcoming Vietnam Moratorium Day. In light of past events when students had faced punishment for "disrupting campus activities"…

Newspaper brief describing the results of the trial of seven individuals involved in the Ballantine lock-in two years earlier. All defendants were found not guilty of the charge of "Rout," a misdemeanor offense originally devised to curtail the…

Newspaper article describing the proceedings of the trial of seven individuals facing misdemeanor charges related to their participation in the Ballantine lock-in two years earlier.

Taken from the IU Archives' reference file "Student…

Newspaper brief documenting the start of the trial for one professor and six former IU students on misdemeanor charges related to their participation in the Ballantine lock-in.

Taken from the IU Archives' reference file "Student Demonstrations -…

Article from the underground newspaper The Spectator describing the Grand Jury indictments of 9 persons from IU involved in the Ballantine lock-in. The article is harshly critical of the charges and the Indiana government in general. Taken from…

Newspaper article documenting court activity regarding the trial of nine people indicted by the Grand Jury for their participation in the Ballantine lock-in.

Taken from the IU Archives' reference file "Student Demonstrations - Ballantine Lock-in"

Print response to a radio editorial regarding the punishment of the students involved in the Ballantine lock-in. The radio station had called for the suspension of students involved, but in this response IU Student Senate president pro-tem Dean…

Flyer calling for students to gather to help plan for the defense of those being indicted by the Grand Jury for involvement in the Ballantine lock-in.

Taken from the IU Archives' reference file "Student Demonstrations May 1969"