Around Low Library, a scuffle between strike opponents and supporters. The two sides were called pukes (us) and jocks (them), but I think the jocks were mainly business-school students and like, Masters of the Universe in training. The jock ring was to there to prevent food or more people from entering the building. Coatless, tieless, hirsute pukes formed the outer ring. The puke ring lent moral support to the occupiers and tried, usually with little success, to throw food up to us. Sometimes there was friction. Later, to keep the peace, concerned white-armbanded faculty inserted themselves as an intermediate ring. Photo: Life Magazine, 10 May 1968.

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This is another view of the jocks ("Majority Coalition"), in which you can better see how "kempt" they were. Photo: Found at Columbiana, original source unknown.

This photo shows faculty members next to Low, between us and the jocks. At right center, Jim Shenton, star professor of history (and I might add, one of our best friends on the faculty, who died in 2003) with some colleagues, engaging in lively dialog with some jocks outside Low. As noted elsewhere, he had an arm broken in the melee of April 30th. Photo: Found at Columbiana, original source unknown. (More about Jim Shenton HERE for as long as the link lasts.)