Dow Chemical protests

As the orange glow of napalm strewed across Vietnam — firestorms that wrote-off villages and burned through civilizations — executives from its manufacturer, Dow Chemical Company, interviewed IU students in the Kelley School of Business.

On Oct. 30, 1967, around 100 students staged a sit-in against the company.

Sophomore Dan Kaplan of Students for a Democratic Society gave the Dow representatives an ultimatum: leave within five minutes and not do anymore recruiting or the protesters would come in.

“Times were heavy back then,” said Marc Haggerty, former IU student and Vietnam veteran.

No one left, and 35 to 40 protesters barged through the door, which a few men inside attempted to hold shut. Police arrived, arrested 35 students who remained at the protest and injured two, including a graduate student who suffered a concussion from a knight stick, according to newspaper articles.