Dialoguing Change

David Orr, circa 1980.

Listen as David Orr, Assistant Professor of History at Mundelein College, underscores the significance of on-campus discourse perpetuated by the antiwar movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

"Report of a Meeting of the Ad hoc Committee established to consider means for assisting students in the event of a continuing College institutional strike," May 8, 1970. Click this image to see both pages of the report.

Letter from the College president, Sister Ann Ida Gannon, BVM, to the black students of Mundelein, May 16, 1970.

"Response to Black Demands," skyPAPER, May 26, 1970.

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"Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee to the White Community at Mundelein College," May 25, 1970.

"Response to Demand I." Click this image to see all three pages of this document.

"Response to Demand II."

And change Mundelein College student demonstrators did. One of the fruits of the May 1970 protest was an increase in verbal dialogue. Students, faculty, and administrators alike engaged one another in a transparent and proactive discussion over campus-wide injustices like never before.