The following week, the students returned to President Gallagher’s office to discuss the demands, and then staged a four-hour occupation of the administration building when they felt as though their overtures were not being taken seriously. Things have only escalated since: vandalism, smoke bombs, and tagged walls, and some students have even been painting STRIKE on the walls of the campus.

The focus of these acts seems to predominantly regard the University’s plan to implement an open admissions policy, which the Board of Higher Education originally passed as a long-term plan in 1964 but has yet to implement. Many students, dismayed that the policy is set to be implemented in 1974 and few stipulations have been outlined, have demanded a more formal set of plans and a quicker timetable.