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Cemetery for Innocents

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 5:55 p.m.

IU Students for Life protested abortion polices by erecting some 300 small crosses to create a "Cemetery for Innocents." The display was up for four hours while members of the student group passed out pamphlets containing abortion facts.

Matthew Shepard vigil

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 5:53 p.m.

Nearly 200 students and supporters gathered in Dunn Meadow to mourn the death of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, who died after being pistol-whipped, burned and tied to a fence post in Wyoming.

L.A. riots rally

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 5:48 p.m.

"As sections of Los Angeles burned half a continent away, more than 1,000 people attended a Dunn Meadow rally to express their outrage with the racial situation in the United States," according to an IDS article.

Tent City leaves

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 5:41 p.m.

War protesters living in "tent city" to protest U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf Crisis left the meadow after nearly two months of camping there. Their original deadline for leaving the meadow was Jan. 22.

Living in Tent City

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 5:40 p.m.

Firecrackers, no sleeping policy and other hardships were thrown at protesters participating in "tent city" to protest the Persian Gulf Crisis.

One-man vigil: Tent City

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 5:22 p.m.

In a one-man vigil, Myers declared that he would remain in the meadow until Jan. 15, the U.N. deadline for Iraq to leave Kuwait. If war were to break out, however, Myers said he would stay longer.

Middle East march

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 5:14 p.m.

Protesting the wave of violence in the Middle East, around 40 students marched from Dunn Meadow to the Bloomington courthouse.

El Salvador crosses

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 5:10 p.m.

Members of the Committee for Democracy in Latin America removed seventy-seven white crosses protesting U.S. involvement in El Salvador after a week-long demonstration in Dunn Meadow.

Tiananmen vigil

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 5:04 p.m.

One hundred days after the start of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, four student associations co-sponsored a ceremony symbolizing unity among students.

Shantytown arrives

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 4:59 p.m.

Two-dozen students armed with splintered boards, cardboard boxes and cans of spray paint constructed a shantytown composed of five wooden shacks and supply tent, manned in shifts by about 25 protesters.

Fast for peace

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 4:47 p.m.

Fasters for peace were ordered out of Dunn Meadow following an advisement from the IU Environmental Health Service who said the presence of the tents pitched in the meadow would damage the grass and sanitary facilities in the meadow were not sufficient.

Foreign policy march

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 4:12 p.m.

About 7,500 students marched peacefully from a rally in Dunn Meadow around campus under the direction of student marshalls.

May Day — demands on Cambodia address; fast for peace

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 4:03 p.m.

A rally of approximately 1,500 people involved a voice vote to present a set of "demands" to IU President Joseph Sutton concerning President Richard Nixon's address on Cambodia.

Vietnam Moratorium

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 3:51 p.m.

A candlelight march, a speech by "yippie" leader Jerry Rubin and an anti-ROTC demonstration sent the Vietnam Moratorium into full swing.

March to Monroe County Courthouse

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 3:39 p.m.

Approximately 800 students gathered to protest the calling of a Grand Jury for the Ballantine lock-in arrests, a tuition increase and the withdrawal of an offer of vice chancellorship to Professor Orlando Taylor. The students set a May 20 deadline for the administration to reply on the withdrawal.

Fee increase boycott continues

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 3:31 p.m.

A vote of more than 8,000 students and faculty members at a rally in Dunn Meadow announced the continuation of a boycott of classes through the end of the week.

Unexpected all-nighter

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 3:28 p.m.

Five draft cards were tossed into a small fire as 75 students questioned and discussed recent IU activities — the boycott, the student interest and participation in campus happenings.

Fee increase rally, Graduate Library fire

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 2:36 p.m.

As Paul Helmke, student body president, made announcements at a rally addressing a 68 percent tuition increase, a group of black students made a late entrance. Helmke introduced Acting Chancellor John Snyder, who responded to four students' demands for a recision of the fee increase.

Rally for tution demands

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 2:26 p.m.

Speakers at a rally discussing student demands concerning the 68 percent fee increase urged participants to meet outside Owen Hall for the administration's response.

New fieldhouse tuition increase address; rally in Dunn Meadow

Tuesday, Nov. 23,2010 2:18 p.m.

A battle between a seven-man student government committee and three IU vice presidents at the new fieldhouse canceled classes so students could attend the discussion.

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