While historic dates tend to mark births and deaths, or battles won and lost, in true Stanford fashion, the pivotal date of campus unrest in the late 1960s marks a meeting.

On April 3rd, 1969, students crowded into Dinkelspiel Auditorium to debate what to do about Stanford's role in the ongoing wars in Southeast Asia — specifically its classified war research conducted by the Stanford Research Institute and for companies owned by the Board of Trustees. Students held a decisive vote condemning the university’s war games and what ensued was one of the most sustained periods of activism on any campus in the United States.

During homecoming, join activists of every era (Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Anti-Apartheid, Occupy, Labor Action, Climate Resilience) for a community roundtable to discuss the ripples of April 3rd, 1969, and see previews from a documentary, Radical Reunion, by Stanford graduates and about the 50th anniversary of the April 3rd Movement.

Some of the very students who were there in Dinkelspiel on that fortuitous spring day will be in attendance with us and we find no better way to honor them than with another meeting.

Free and open to the public. No registration is required.

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