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Volu m e II - Purdue University Calumet

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Figure 2. Burying the U.S. Constitution (Ruffner, 1970).<br />

Draft cards, belonging to students, were incinerated. Students also made it clear on that day that they did<br />

not want an ROTC building on Kent State’s campus. There were inquiries of why the ROTC building was<br />

still there. That foreshadowed what was to become of the ROTC building the next day. The students<br />

planned to meet again on May 4, 1970. The topics that they wanted to converse about were opposition to<br />

the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia and the demands of the students, including eradicating<br />

the ROTC program on Kent State’s campus (U.S. President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, 1970).<br />

Overall, there were not any problems during the day of May 1. However, the evening of May 1 was a<br />

different story.<br />

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