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I was a freshman in college when Kent state happened. Those images remain in my brain to this very day. I remember how stunned all us college age kids were that our own countrymen would shoot us. After the shock and horror came the anger. Students closed down almost every university in the country in protest. At the University of Denver, we camped out (whoops!) in front of the admin building and prevented anyone, including the president, from going in to work. We boycotted classes.
The University of Denver (and many, many other institutions of higher learning) simply shut down for 6 weeks or so until summer quarter started. That was a dark time. Kent State radicalized me and many others, as well.
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