1973 Western Connecticut State University Protests and Controversy

The 1970's signified the end of the Civil Rights movement and America's involvement in Vietnam. In Connecticut, state colleges were all affected by big budget cuts that forced colleges to raise tuition. This had a huge impact on the students and faculty because it now made it harder to students to get into the universities, and teachers lost their jobs. Western Connecticut State University did not escape this, they were heavily impacted. The university united and formed protests to show their displeasure towards the states government during 1973 which had lasted for several days. Along with that, the issue of controversy came up after a fundraising effort by students for athletics were under the spotlight after labeling it a slave trade. Both of these demonstrations were occuring on the same day on September 19th, 1973.