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Film documents student activism ■A senior’s editing project chronicles the Kent State shooting of four students By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald On May 4, 1975, the National Guard shot into a group of Kent State University students who were protesting American involve ment in the war in Vietnam. Four students were killed, and nine oth ers were wounded. Today marks the 30th anniver sary of that day, and it has not gone unnoticed. Senior video production major Brian Hindenberger is editing a documentary about the event enti tled “Kent State and the Transfor mation of a Nation: A People’s His tory of Kent.” Wednesday night, he previewed the film thus far to a group of about 25 people in Allen Hall. Through the use of interviews, photographs and front-page news paper headlines, the documentary, which is an ongoing process, chronicled the essence of both the event and how it came to occur. From tire accounts of eight for mer KSU students, the shooting stemmed from an escalating move ment on the KSU campus against the war. Out of a mid-western farm school that had a notable art, mu sic and film-making reputation, came an anti-war force'in the form of Students for a Democratic Soci ety. * As the war continued, SDS in vestigated KSU’s part in complying with the war effort. Based on its discovery of KSU defense con tracts, the SDS demanded the uni versity end its compliance. By May 4, the school had be come almost like a prisoner-of-war camp, one of the former students said. The National Guard and tanks were roaming the campus, while machine guns were set up on tow ers. On that day, several students be gan chanting for the war to stop. Af ter tear gas was flung into the crowd, the students found them selves in a face-off with the Nation al Guard. Rocks were hurled from both sides, until the guard turned away to walk up a hill. Before reaching the top, howev er, it turned around and fired. “I was 13 when this happened," said Jane Marcellus, a journalism Ph.D. student. “This really gave me a lot of context for something that I remember as history. ” In pursuit of the cause to end war, the lives of four student ac tivists were cut short. Their legacy has caused many, including Hin denberger, to look at the impor tance of students’ speaking out for what they see is right. “This project really contributed to my awareness that student ac tivism is essential for the American social structure. If conflicting ideas don’t come from the universities, then where do things change?” he said. “It has to start here. ” Other audience members noted how much those protesting care about what they are fighting for. “Maybe the ‘I agree with Phil’ people should watch this movie,” graduate journalism student Chris tine Quail said. The film is the compilation of work by several different people, including the director, Daniel Thompson Miller, a professor at Hofstra University. It was Miller who contacted Hindenberger and asked him to be the editor for the documentary. Hindenberger is fly ing out to Ohio Friday to work with Miller further on the documentary, which is prospected to be a two hour film. Even though it is not yet fin ished, the film has already had an effect. “It was really meaningful,” Mar cellus said. “I was sitting here cry ing and hoping they wouldn’t turn the lights on.” Su m mer senate seats still stand suspended ■ Some senators oppose a rule change until they have a chance for more review By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald The Student Senate began to re establish its summer committee at Wednesday night’s meeting. Senate President Jessica Timpa ny presented a group of amendments, ap proved by the senate rules committee, governing how the smaller body of the senate will serve during summer (III Student Senate term. The ASUO Constitution Court deemed the current rules uncon stitutional in February for a vari ety of reasons, including the fact that summer senators are elected by the full senate, not the students. The new rules proposal would allow any senator to serve who can be in Eugene, attend at least two-thirds of the meetings and hold required office hours. A max imum of 10 senators could serve on the summer committee and full senate officers would receive precedence to serve. Quorum for the body would be two-thirds of the filled seats. But some of the senators had problems with parts of the propos al. Sen. Shantell Rice pointed out that if only three people could make it to the meetings and thus be on the summer senate, two peo ple could decide how $5,000 of in cidental fee money could be spent. Sens. Spencer Hamlin and Je reme Gryzbowski said they did not think summer senators, who are paid less than senators during the year, should have to hold as many posted office hours, espe cially in the senate office. “If it’s one-third the pay, it should be one-third the work,” Gryzbowski said. Gryzbowski, Hamlin, Timpany and Sens. C.J. Gabbe and Andrew Schneider made up last year’s summer senate and were found guilty of nonfulfillment of duty charges by the court in the same decision. The senate voted to postpone a vote on the issue until next Wednesday’s.meeting so senators have more time to review exactly what changes they want the rules committee to consider before making a vote. Pre-Law Society , Presents Judge Lauren S. 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