This month’s cover features an image of four University of Toledo students seated in Gesu Church on Parkside Boulevard in Toledo on October 15, 1969. The students walked from the university campus to the church for a service in honor of those who had died in the war as part of the national Vietnam War moratorium. Seven months later in the wake of the May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings, the university responded with a voluntary moratorium on classes and a series of peaceful demonstrations. Students and faculty held mass meetings, protest marches, pickets, and an all-night vigil in front of University Hall. The College of Education hosted moderated dialogues on effective dissent, and a May 8 rally addressed justice, poverty, and nonviolent protest. The student group STOP (Students of Toledo Organizing for Peace) also promoted peaceful action and legislative advocacy; these events reflected a campus committed to meaningful, civil discourse during a time of national tragedy and unrest.
