Linear Accelerator Laboratory Building Accepted 1970 February 4 Linear Accelerator Laboratory Building accepted.
Environmentalism At Sunya 1970 February 9 Acting President Kuusisto queried about the University’s commitment to environmentalism at his Monday press conference. Protect Your Environment Club (PYE) organized. First evidence of a strong environmental movement at SUNYA. The environmental movement soon began to ellipse other student...
Sunya Senate Condemns War 1970 February 9 SUNYA University Senate “condemned the intervention of the United States in Vietnam” and “denounced the immoral violations of international peace and the unjust interference in the Vietnamese people’s right to self-determination.”
Day Care Center 1970 February 23 Women’s Liberation Front demands Vice President Thorne establish a day care center for students, employees and faculty.
Violence In Buffalo 1970 February 23 State University of New York at Buffalo rocked by violent confrontations between police and students.
William Kunstler 1970 March 5 William Kunstler, lawyer for the Chicago 8, speaks at University Gym, raising his clenched fist in a “Power to the People” and asking students “are we dangerous? I hope the hell we are.”
Sit In For Gerry Wagner 1970 March 9 Student power brings 150 to sit-in in front of Vice President O’Reilly’s office to press for the retention of popular faculty member Gerry Wagner.
Protests For Gerry Wagner 1970 March 13 One hundred and fifty students march on Administration Building and smash windows on hearing news that Garry Wagner’s contract was not renewed. Faculty endorses canceling classes on Thursday and Friday for Dialogue.
Twenty Nine People Including Sunya Students Arrested At Albany 1970 March 19 Twenty-nine people including SUNYA students arrested at Albany Induction Center sit-in for “disorderly conduct.”