Sabrina Chapman, “Letter to Rod Hutter” (May 6, 1988)
After students calling themselves the “Women Haters” tossed a female dummy in the street and beat it with clubs, Center for Women Students Director Sabrina Chapman urged an investigation.
Photographs from Take Back the Night Rally (1988)
Students, faculty, and community members gathered on the lawn of Old Main to protest sexual violence at the yearly Take Back the Night rally.
Betty Holman, “Old Main Anti-War Protest Today” (May 10, 1972)
Following the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, students at Penn State engaged in another antiwar mass rally outside of Old Main.
David A. Dankovic, “Letter to the Dean” (April 19, 1971)
As the Vietnam War continued, Penn State students wondered whether the “College of Agriculture is directing any of its research towards developing herbicides and defoliants which are causing the ecological disaster to the land and people of Indochina?”
Pennsylvania State University Department of Public Information, “Woodside Commission Hearings” (June 22, 1970)
After a series of student protests in 1970, Penn State students were arrested and faced a conduct hearing, which resulted in questionable sanctions ranging from a letter home to expulsion.