The Faculty-Student Assembly votes 89 to 60 to retain ROTC on campus. No American soldier is killed in Vietnam for the first time in five years. Marine recruiters return to campus for the first time since the General Electric incident of the previous December. Though there are organized protests, the College s Open Campus policy prevails. A group of students led by Rev. J. Kevin Packard, S.J., fasts from Wednesday morning until noon on Saturday in protest of the Marines visit.
Closer inspection reveals a broken window and doused matches and cigarettes.
Campus building supervisor Henry Maccini comments, We were very lucky the whole building wasn t gutted. Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, appears before a closed session of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee and charges that the Berrigan brothers are leaders of a plot to blow up Washington power lines and kidnap a high White House official. U.S. troop strength in Vietnam in reduced to 335,000. The issue will go on to win national awards, be expanded and republished as a paperback book, and draw so many letters that the entire subsequent issue of the magazine will be devoted to pro and con responses to the Berrigan issue. Congress outlaws U.S. troops in Laos or Cambodia.