In 1969 activists in the Watts area threatened to burn down the campus; however, they were talked out of it after all-night negotiations by then-President M. Norvel Young.
1969年，瓦茲地區的激進份子威脅將火燒校園；然而，他們和之後的校長M·諾維爾·揚（M. Norvel Young）進行了通宵的談判。