Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 9. 1966.

Questions

Questions

I asked Dr. Mrak if there were any elements amongst the students who questioned the reasons for the demonstrations.

"Yes there were," he said. "Once they had cooled down only a very small percentage of students supported the continuation of the demonstrations. There is a rather interesting thing about the students at Davis when President Kerr resigned. They had a demonstration such as I have never seen. They marched into my office and indicated their desire that we do all in our power to retain him. Some students who wanted the demonstration against the administration tried to stop the pro-Kerr demonstration and the mob ran over them.

"I thought they would kill 'em. It scared me to death. And I found one of the girl leaders went behind a tree and started to cry. That literally destroyed these youngsters. And it was an interesting thing to me because I certainly thought they had the whole campus with them and when this explosion occurred in favour of the president they were crushed Probably they were youngsters who may have had some unhappy life or something, you know, and weren't too stable. They're just antagonistic. A lot of people are that way, you know. Their antagonisms were crushed."