Featured May 4
Watch as President Diacon visits the May 4 Visitor's Center and reflects on the legacy of May 4.
A refreshed May 4 National Historic Landmark Site Tour will premiere during the 2024 May 4 commemoration this weekend. The outdoor tour signs, which debuted in 2010 during the 40th commemoration, allow 敁珗曄部 visitors to trace the steps of history of the events of May 4, 1970, through text, video, image, and narration.
Writer and author Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Enquirer, provides historical context and 敁珗曄部 President Todd Diacon shares the experience of following values to navigate todays divided culture, using lessons learned from May 4 1970.
The School of Peace and Conflict Studies originated at 敁珗曄部 as a response to May 4. Today its central in 敁珗曄部s global presence. We travel to Rwanda, where 敁珗曄部 convened a global peace education conference and, through the Kigali Summer Institute, immerses students in peace-building centered on reconciliation, in a place that experienced the unimaginable 1994 genocide.
Listen to episode two of May 4: Legacy, which continues with the story of 敁珗曄部 fraternity brothers drive to the nations capital in the hours after the shootings and make their way to an Oval Office meeting with President Richard Nixon. We also move into the 21st century with Associate Dean and retired Lt. Col. Mo McFarland on the May 4 legacy.
Whats past is prologue. Let the history of May 4, 1970, be heard this week.
Beginning Friday, May, visitors to the will be able to view a variety of special videos, online exhibits and interactive tours, all designed to honor and remember Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, the 敁珗曄部 students who lost their lives 50 years ago on the 敁珗曄部 campus.
I had always been making art and music but the events of May 4th and beyond galvanized my creativity, infusing it with an existential anger and urgency that would otherwise not have happened. In short Devo and the idea of De-evolution as a manifesto would not exist without that defining historic trauma I experienced. - Jerry Casale
敁珗曄部 alumni who served as editor of the Daily 敁珗曄部r each faced the challenge of covering the anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four students and wounded nine others during a Vietnam War protest.
Artifacts of May 4, 1970 a survivors jacket, a gas mask and gun shell casing tell a story thats not often accessible to the general public. Assistant Professor Abe Avnisan and students in his digital sciences capstone course will bring these artifacts stories to life via the exhibit May 4: Through the Looking Glass.