Later, Dille allows students to leave school before the end of the term, allowing them to take their accumulated grade without penalty. About 400 of 4,500 students do so. In this photograph, Moorhead State College Students rallied after voting to strike following the shootings of students at Ohio's Kent State University. And 3,000 people gathered at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks the day before the protest. Chicago Seven members John Froines and Dave Dellinger, accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, spoke to the crowd.
Protesters sow wheat seed in the excavated hole for the site.
Demonstrators march to the Moorhead Armory. Students line bridges linking Fargo and Moorhead, passing out fliers to invite the public to the demonstrations. The Forum National guard troops were called in as revelers got out of hand during the Zip to Zap. Despite its stately subtitle, the Zip to Zap didn't aim to make a political statement and wasn't a demonstration. It was a college lark - a lark that went awry, bringing thousands of revelers to a western North Dakota coal town of 250.