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
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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.
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