dharbolt wrote:you can't forget Ohio State after beating Michigan in 2002. And of course the Kent State riots.
http://campusgrotto.com/the-7-biggest-college-riots-of-all-time.html
Kent State Massacre of 1970...now I remember...4 kids killed and 9 others wounded by the National Guard. Vietnam era anti-war protests were happening all over the country with mostly white protestors. A big riot happened in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention in '68. I was at UCLA during one of the protests in '72.
Police were lined up three deep across the quad, slowly advancing to clear the area of students demonstrating against the war. Bill Walton was among the demonstrators. A girl was walking her dog on the perimeter and tried to go around the line but police hit her with their batons and put her on the ground. That's when someone on the second floor in Royce Hall, the adjacent building, opened a window and sprayed the cops with a fire hose. People in the crowd started throwing stuff at the police, and then they charged. I was near the front, which became the back, closest to the cops, so when the crowd hit a bottleneck at the top of Jannss Steps, there I was, with nowhere to go. Cops got to me and hit me numerous times with their batons, bruising my elbow, back and thighs. Luckily I had on a backpack filled with books. That absorbed a few blows until it got knocked off. Then I got shoved down the stairs, falling on a bunch of people. Mob mentality incites both protestors and the police.
Didn't get a free TV...
