A Pictorial History Of UT Student Protests [Slideshow]
Time for some Friday afternoon Scenes of Disobedience.
This week saw UT students stage a walkout and rally to protest budget cuts to various ethnic-studies centers within the College of Liberal Arts.
This is an age-old tradition, one that stretches all the way back to the University’s dusty beginnings.
Our diligent Alcalde photo intern, Humberto Jaimes, went digging through the archive to find photos of previous campus protests.
The contentious expansion of the stadium in the late ’60s and the resulting fight over Waller Creek and its old trees is pretty well known, as are the Vietnam-era anti-war protests.
But who knew there was an Austin Tea Party in 1985? Or that protesters used to hold signs saying, “Don’t force us to go to O.U.”
Take a guided tour through the walkouts and demonstrations of yesteryear.
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My most vivid memory of UT protests was the one I didn’t go to. I was on National Guard duty up in Bee Caves when the Johnson Library was opening. We all go issued riot gear and drilled on lining up straight, holding up our plexiglass shields and marching forward. Then we loaded up on trucks and sat for about an hour. Then we got off the trucks, turned in our gear and went home.’
Like I said, vivid.
Well there was one in 74 with the NLF flag and a dozen students.
Bigger one was in 75 when Student Government was shut down and voted out of office. Yeah, lots of students didn’t get to pad their resumes that year.
And in 80 when One Iranian student showed up to protest the rally that was against Iran for capturing the embassy. Thing was, lots of non students were at that one, few Klansmen in pickups. He was encouraged to leave by UT police.
Lots against the Regents in the 70s. Erwin was always good for a quote. Best was, looking down on a good ten thousand students, ‘Insignificant number of students’. Even the faculty were wearing armbands that year.