BREAKING: An "autonomous group" of students occupied the office of the president of Stanford University president. Police had to break into the office to arrest the students.
Some Notre Dame students took over a building to protest. Hesburgh's policy was clear -
Father Hesburgh then laid out his "15-minute" rule, which would give any disruptive demonstrator 15-minutes to "cease and desist." They would be given a chance to do so at that time, but after five more minutes, would be suspended. If they chose to persist, they would be expelled from Notre Dame. https://hesburghportal.nd.edu/story-dedication-protests.html
If you know how precious the ND degree is to Catholic parents and how difficult it is for their children to get in, there is no chance a group would even consider staging a protest to prove something. Nevertheless, college presidents all over the country felt their knees buckle and they caved in.
I was told at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary that I could not go into the library because they were staging a lockout for the entire Waterloo Lutheran University campus. That was about 1972. I said, "I am not in your lockout." They offered to let me participate in all-night prayer for part of their protest, adding "You don't have to pray." I laughed and walked away. Kent State was in 1970, but I cannot remember which protest du jour was on the menu that day.
