Before your little group can do much, the police push you aside. The van carrying Westmoreland and Walker passes by, leaving you feeling helpless. A few weeks later, S.D.S. leads a take-over of Old Main, the University’s administration building. Several hundred students occupy the building, protesting racial injustice, suppression of free speech, and Penn State’s support for the war. Word spreads that police are on their way to remove the students, but you refuse to leave.

You are arrested and suspended for a semester

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