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Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
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    • Timeline: An Institutional History of UC Santa Cruz
    • EXPLORE BY CHAPTER
      • Ch. 1: Histories of Santa Cruz
      • Ch. 2: Envisioning A New Campus of the University of California, 1956-1961
      • Ch. 3: Planning the Santa Cruz Campus: 1961-1965
      • Ch. 4: Finding Faculty for the Experiment
      • Ch. 5: Cowell, Stevenson, and the Dream Becomes Reality
      • Ch. 6: An Unexpected Flourishing of the Sciences
      • Ch. 7: The Chadwick Garden and the Arboretum
      • Ch. 8: The Rising Counterculture
      • Ch. 9: The Vietnam War, Academic Freedom, and Campus Activism
      • Ch. 10: Escalating Protests and a Campus Divided
      • Ch. 11: "The Changing City on a Hill"
      • Ch. 12: "A Male Academic Locker Room"
      • Ch. 13: Kresge College
      • Ch. 14: Radical Feminism and Gay Liberation
      • Ch. 15: The Formation of College Five and the Kindling of the Arts
      • Ch. 16: The Genesis of Environmental Studies and College Eight
      • Ch. 17: The Building College-Board Crisis and the End of the McHenry Era
      • Ch. 18: A Crisis of Leadership and a Search for New Direction
      • Ch. 19: Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer and the "Reorganization" of the Experiment
      • Ch. 20: A Growing UCSC in the Community
      • Ch. 21: Finding a Place on a "Very White Campus"
      • Ch. 22: The Sinsheimer Era's Final Years
      • Ch. 23: Earthquakes: The Stevens Years
      • Ch. 24: A "Maturing" Campus Considers Its Direction
      • Ch. 25: Chancellor Karl Pister
      • Ch. 26: Affirmative Action and Diversity in a Hostile Climate
      • Ch. 27: UCSC as a Leader in the Research Sciences
      • Ch. 28: Conventional Grading, Graduate Education, and New Priorities
      • Ch. 29: Inventing and Reinventing Interdisciplinarity
      • Ch. 30: Often Invisible, Underpaid, and Overworked: Staff and Lecturers
      • Ch. 31: Still Pioneering: A New Experiment in College Nine and Ten
      • Ch. 32: The Brief and Tragic Tenure of Chancellor Denice Denton
      • Ch. 33: An Acting Chancellor in a Time of Instability
      • Ch. 34: Endings and Beginnings in a Time of Austerity
      • Ch. 35: The Continuing Story of Protest at UCSC
      • Ch. 36: What We Value Now: UCSC at Fifty
      • Ch. 37: The 2016 Election, Reaction, and Resistance
      • Coda

Ch. 10: Escalating Protests and a Campus Divided

Protest against US Air Force recruiters at UC Santa Cruz: crowd of students around a car. Circa 1966.

Protest against US Air Force recruiters at UC Santa Cruz, 1966

California Governor Ronald Reagan visits UCSC. May 1967.

California Governor Ronald Reagan visits UCSC, 1967

Statement by Chancellor Dean McHenry to Informal Meeting of UCSC Academic Senate, May 22, 1969

Statement by Chancellor Dean McHenry to Informal Meeting of UCSC Academic Senate, May 22, 1969

People's Park strike (typescript) 1969

UCSC Student Strike Statement, 1969

UC Regents' meeting at Crown College: student protesters. October 17, 1968.

Protesting UC Regents' meeting at Crown College, 1969

Student Strike of May 1969: occupation of Central Services. May 19, 1969

Student Strike of May 1969

City on a Hill (strike 1969)

City on a Hill Press, May 23, 1969 strike issue

University of California, Santa Cruz: Commencement, June 1967: Quarry Amphitheater ceremony, exit procession

 Commencement, June 1967

UC Santa Cruz student strike: students on the road. 1969.

UC Santa Cruz student strike, 1969

UC Santa Cruz student strike: students blocking traffic. Circa 1960s.

UC Santa Cruz student strike, circa 1960s

UC Santa Cruz student strike: students distributing food. 1969.

UC Santa Cruz student strike, 1969

Campus-wide convocation against the United States involvement in Cambodia.<br />

Audio: Campus-wide convocation against United States involvement in Cambodia

"After the Hill What?" Woodblock print poster. Circa early 1970s.

"After the Hill, What?" wood block print poster, circa early 1970s

Stevenson Libre (November 21, 1968)

Student publication: Stevenson Libre, 1968

Loaded (June 1, 1972; Vol. 2, no. 10)

Student publication: Loaded, 1972.

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