European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine 18 years after the Kent state shootings four in Ohio up photo protester jumps in the blood of one of the by Elizabeth Neus United press International t Kent state once a rallying cry for Viet Nam protesters is just like any other College these career oriented students hit the administrators worry about enrolment and uniformed Roth cadets roam the Cam pus it was a different Story on May on that warm Spring monday 15 years four Stu dents and nine others wounded when nation Al guardsmen fired on them during a protest of the invasion of to this no one knows Why the National guard some speculate the guardsmen May have thought the swelled by students on their Way Home from noontime was closing in on them but Many pictures taken that Day show relatively few students near the for three Days before the shootings there had been numerous Antiwar rallies and arrests and the Campus Roth building was James Rhodes called in the saying he feared the presence of outside agitators and additional the killings made Kent state a focus of National at Tention for several and a Symbol of the angry divisions of the Vietnam on they refer to it As the or May says Campus spokesman Jan off Campus they just Call it Kent state we dont want another Kent state and that Speaks paragraphs and volumes without the located in a Small Middle class town in Northeast is peppered with reminders of the shoot the school hands out brochures with a map of the shooting site and a Brief article explaining May 4 and its As Well As a reprint of an alumni Magazine article detailing the events of that there Are also memorials As varied As an my Bullet Hole in a sculpture made of Quarter Inch thick steel and the creation of a Center to study peaceful ways of a sociology professor who was there that Day teaches a class on the shootings and subsequent a student organization holds candlelight vigils and commemoration ceremonies every year in the Prentice Hall parking lot where Jeffery Allison William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer were in the Kent state Board of trustees approved the construction of a school sponsored a step Many Felt necessary to heal the emotional wounds that still i suspect the events of May 1 through 4 Are going to be More than just a footnote to the Vietnam says Usu president Michael one of the most important Domestic events of the Vietnam Era happened if history is used its a sociology professor Jerry who was in the line of fire in 1970 and teaches a class called May 4 and its says the current administrations willingness to discuss the shootings is a you can understand he universities dont want rapes brought they dont want lecherous profs brought they dont want buildings falling they dont want anything bad brought up if they can avoid it because of Kent the ultimate thing you dont bring the majority of Kent state students today Are barely old enough to remember the and some people question Why the Issue is continually whether it be in class or the pages of the student most people Are a Little tired of hearing about says Allison Kra uses what else is there to say Zima says students Are conservative and growing More kids simply have their Heads Down and there Zima they have seen their parents go through some rough economic and Treyve decided there not going to go through students Are apathetic says Rae one of Lewis that urge to stand up for something is not Lewis takes a Kinder View if this were the they would be Liberal activists judging from the kind of social concern i hear them talk i dont think they be the kind of student who would give up a whole Quarter to work on the Antiwar the big Issue now is not so much that the students have but that politics have says Alan who was wounded during the 1970 pro test and still works with the May 4 task theres no no unpopular emotions still run close to the surface in Many quarters when the shootings Are in Campus officials decided to build a new gymnasium Annex on part of the shooting and sparked a two month the gym Annex is one of the busiest buildings on and the Only controversy comes from a shortage of court c time up Ohio National guardsmen fire on Kent state students during 1970 May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13