Students ✦ Administration

At HWS campus culture reflected the larger social changes in the 60s and 70s and student requests of administrators reflected their desire for change. A change within student rights and  an awakening of student voice. Through their activism students forced the administration to react and be held accountable for the student rights change that they demanded, a change in policy and social norms of the campus. This was a unique time for activism and therefore the relationship with administration and students. 

This student activism can be specifically seen at HWS through reports in the Hobart Heralds. The May 3, 1968 edition, within just days of each other, the Chairman of the Temporary Student Association, Tom Bozzuto stepped down along with Trustee Chairman Gulick and President Holland. Exposing the strain that protest and change can have on the administration, Trustee Gulick lamented. “The children have gotten out of hand, and my college has been taken over by a vocal minority and radicals” This chain reaction of faculty stepping down, gives insight into how severe the backlash from students was. This Herald article brings conversation and promotes  questioning of authority, a common theme at that time not just within HWS but across the nation. However, between outspoken students and the vocal board of trustees, the administration felt their authority was being undermined and challenged. The aspect of student activism here differs from that of student and faculty relations due to the larger role the administration plays; due to this role their connection to students is lesser making them less approachable and more attackable.