Emerald
Vol. LXXII, No. 13 University of Oregon, Eugene. Monday, September 28,1970
‘America made
a revolutionary’
The following is the text of a
statement ex-University professor John
Froines made to the press on Sep
tember 21.
This statement is being prepared
one year past the beginning of the
Chicago Conspiracy trial. During the
trial it was evident that we were not
indicted for crossing state lines to incite
a riot or for conspiracy to do so; rather
our generation and our identity were on
trial. On trial were eight scapegoats
chosen by the government and later the
press to represent the movement of the
sixties. My own experience in the early
sixties is representative. I had been
energized by the election of John F.
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‘A stronger
university’
The following is the text of an ad
dress University President Robert
Clark made to the faculty on September
23.
I am glad to welcome you at the
beginning of this new year. As an old
schoolmaster, I find that my pulse still
quickens to the return of students to the
campus and, despite the anxieties and
tribulations of recent years, it is not a
pulse that beats loud with anger or faint
with trepidation. These have been
troublesome years but exciting ones,
and out of the student unrest, I believe,
will emerge a stronger and better
university-one more responsive to
student and societal needs, but one no
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