The years of 1968-1970 were characterized by great turmoil on the 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ campus.
In increasingly emphatic ways, university students and employees alike showed their dissatisfaction with the administration, protesting the conservative attitudes perceived to be governing 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ at the time. For ten days in 1968, the offices of Political Science and Economics were occupied by students concerned about their level of involvement in the management of their department
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Students in front of the Administrative Building, 1969. MUA PR000388
Alarmed by the growing influence of campus organizations such as the Students for a Democratic University, 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ's administration formed a Tripartite Commission to report on ways to quell the unrest. In the winter and spring of 1969, the "disturbance and discontent" described by the Commission's interim report came to a head in a series of campus demonstrations and disruptions. In February, after breaking up several administrative meetings in support of the 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ français movement, Stanley Gray, a radical Political Science teacher, was fired. He returned to campus in March as part of a massive 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ français demonstration, comprising about 6,000 protesters and another 2,000-3,000 onlookers as it wound its way to the Roddick Gates.
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Students in front of the Administrative Building, 1969. MUA PR000389
Later in the fall, the 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ Reporter published the administration's five-year plan to achieve a better balance between French and English, including goals of a 20% Francophone registration and a fully bilingual administration. By 1971, the year of 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ's Sesqucentennial anniversary celebration, much of the upheaval at 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ had stilled.
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Stanley Gray, 1969. MUA PR000395
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Students usurp chair at Board of Governors' Meeting, 1969. MUA PR000398
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Maxwell Cohen at Board of Governors' Meeting, 1969. MUA PR000399
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Maxwell Cohen at Board of Governors' Meeting, 1969). MUA PR000400
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Stanley Gray dismissed for disruption of Board of Governors' and Senate Meetings, 1969. MUA PR000403
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Students watching television debate between Principal H. Rocke Robertson, Dean of Arts H. Wood, and Stanley Gray,1969. MUA PR000406
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