The 1975 occupation ended peacefully with the signing of an accord by the University to do more for minority students. Sometimes, you really do have to be there. There is no true perspective in a news report. When the events are highly charged and complex, when the people involved are diverse and emotional, the interpreting process becomes disconcerting in its variation.
Meaning suffers from the very abundance of images.
Here are some vignettes from the occupation of University Hall on April 24 by a group of forty black, Latin, and Asian-American students. Churchill House, the official home of black studies and activities at Brown, is filled at 6 A.M. by students representing the hastily formed Third World Coalition. A curious University security guard drops by to ask what they are doing. You kids don't know nothing, I don't know nothing. The meeting is to plot the first building seizure in Brown's 211-year history.