Pro-Palestinian supporters watch as law enforcement begins to remove demonstrators from an encampment set up in support of Palestine on UT campus Monday, April 29, 2024, in Austin.
Frank Erwin, then the president of the Board of Regents, called Austin police, who arrested 27 students to make way for bulldozers that were already on site. The bulldozer shovels hoisted police to persuade protesters to leave or to remove them from the trees.“Arrest all the people you have to," The Daily Texan reported Erwin saying. “Once these trees are down, there won't be anything to protest.
A grid of images showing a protest at the Capitol printed on the front page of The Daily Texan on May 6, 1970.John Reetz, who also covered the protests as a student reporter at The Daily Texan, recalled the way tear gas floated through the Capitol dome for hours until city police and officers broke up the protest in the early morning hours.
Jane Moore, a ninth-generation Texan, participated in protests in the early 1980s, but noted the demonstrations were smaller, with 50 to 70 people climbing on concrete planters that once covered the West Mall. “The kind of protesting that happened, that's the type of speech or conduct that we see is very integral a lot of times in getting institutions like UT to recognize the need for these programs and how student activism can play a significant role in shaping that discourse and, ultimately, effectuating some of those goals,” Jin said.
Occupy UT member Lucian Villaseñor, a Mexican-American Studies senior, leads group members down to Kealing Park for the Student Forum on Education on Jan. 17, 2012.“I hated going to those because it always felt like the people that you were talking to, they already had their decisions made and you're and you're just talking to a blank wall,” Villaseñor said.
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