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Chapel incident presentation
- 1. By:BriannaKratz THE 1969 ROTC DEMONSTRATION WHICH WOULD BECOME KNOWN AS The Chapel Incident 01Vietnam Protests, ROTC, & the St. Joan of Arc Chapel
- 2. The Milwaukee 14 ASMU inquiry into ROTC program April 22 - gym demonstration April 22 - Chapel occupation Aftermath Road Map TheChapelIncident 02
- 3. 03 SEPTEMBER 24, 1968 THE MILWAUKEE 14
- 4. ASMU Inquiry into ROTC TheChapelIncident 04 A. ACADEMIC PRESENTATION What is taught in AROTC and NROTC? B. SUITABILITY OF ACADEMIC CREDIT Is it appropriate to award university credit for AROTC and NROTC courses? C. UNIVERSITY ENDORSEMENT OF MILITARY What issues arise from the university's apparent endorsement of an outside institution in its association with ROTC? D. MARQUETTE AS A CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY What issues arise from this endorsement and MU's identity as a Christian university?
- 5. OCCUPATION The Chapel 05 SIT-IN The Gym The Chapel Incident
- 6. The Chapel Incident 06 AFTER MASS... Chapel Occupation
- 7. THE AFTERMATH Raynor's statement, student conduct, and changing conversations. 07 The Chapel Incident
- 8. Too many articles to enumerate. THE MARQUETTE TRIBUNE Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and memos. MATERIALS FROM THE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES Andrew Gingerich, who listened to my findings Katie Blank, who stacked so many boxes on my cart Arthur Heitzer, who replied to my email SPECIAL THANKS: References RPASummer2020 08
- 9. Questions, anyone? THANK YOU FOR WATCHING! The Chapel Incident 09
Editor's Notes
- Introduction Hi, I’m Brianna I’m going to talk about the events leading up to and the 1969 demonstration which would become known as The Chapel Incident
- Vietnam War began in 1955 The Milwaukee 14 We who burn these records of our society's war machine are participants in a movement of resistance to slavery, a struggle that remains as unresolved in America as in most of the world. Our act concentrates on the selective service system because its relation to murder is immediate. Men are drafted – or 'volunteer' for fear of being drafted – as killers for the state. Their victims litter the planet. Today we destroy selective service system files because men need to be reminded that property is not sacred. …If anything tangible is sacred, it is the gift of life and flesh. (p. 1, 3)
- 1968/1969 at Marquette There were students who supported the MKE 14, others who didn’t Coalition for Peace asked if ASMU would investigate ROTC Academic presentation of what is taught in AROTC and NROTC courses The suitability of subject matter in these courses for university academic credit The issues arising from the university’s apparent endorsement of an outside institution in its association with ROTC The issues arising from the university’s proclaimed role as a Christian university (ASMU asks Moeller to begin study of ROTC, 1969) Then the subcommittee was like, “This is outside our scope” Academic committee was like, “This is outside our scope” Raynor sent a memo asking for a committee to be formed to examine points C and D
- April 22 The gym ROTC was gathering to do something Students attempted to enter the gym Denied access Students sat in front of the doors Father Sheridan (I believe) pointed randomly at students and suspended them on the spot The chapel Students marched from the gym to the chapel Attended mass
- Just…didn’t leave The liberation of the chapel, (renamed after the slain Columbian priest-guerrilla, Camillo Torres) was both a symbolic and tactical victory. It reinforced the contradiction between the professed 'intellectual and moral excellence' of the school and its businesslike lack of concern for human values, concerning both its own students and the deprived peoples of this city and world. (p. 3) The custodian of the chapel left the keys with the students, said they should probably keep the door open, the students refused Students requested Raynor come talk to them about ROTC Heitzer, elsewhere, had walkie talkie contact with those locked in the Chapel Police standing by Bomb threat Fire department en route Police needed to clear the building – claimed to announce through a bullhorn that students needed to leave Broke into the building through the back door and arrested the 68 students
- Aftermath Raynor defends his actions and the actions of the police, saying the students were violating policy Students speculate about who called in the bomb threat The conversation stops being about ROTC and more about student conduct CONVENIENT “we requested the police to stand ready to assist us in terminating this seizure and detention of this place of worship” (Raynor, April 29, 1969). , “this committee likewise may not agree with the students’ methodology, but procedural irregularities existed which make it difficult to judge the full extent of this case, or to justify any disciplinary action” (Faculty-Student Conduct Committee, 1969). Ultimately, the committee unanimously found “a violation of University policy was not committed by the above named students on the evening of April 22…[and] we suggest that these findings would apply to all students who were involved in the Chapel incident” (Faculty-Student Conduct Committee, 1969).