Letter: Protests in 1970s violent; involved many nonstudents

Editor,

I found the article on nonviolent protests in Thursday's Daily Lobo interesting. I was a student at the time, and the protests were violent. What was even more interesting was the number of nonstudents involved. People arrested at the SUB included street people and high school students. In fact, more nonuniversity students were arrested than university students.

How former President Davis could make the comments he did is beyond me. It was a scary time and many people used the opportunity to promote their own agendas, not necessarily to protest the war in Vietnam.

One thing is for sure - it changed the climate at UNM for the rest of the time that I attended college.

Richard Wooten

UNM alumnus