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Students occupying the Allen Center during the 1970 Abbie Hoffman incident confront and block media members and their cameras.

Students at the convocation sit slumped in their seats, leaning on the railing. One puts up two peace signs and another smokes in the back.

Student Center Board (SCB) chairwoman Jerlyn Mardis sits and holds a cigarette in her hand at the all-student convocation. Other students are seen in the frame listening to a speaker out of the frame.

Student Center Board (SCB) chairwoman Jerlyn Mardis speaks at the all-student convocation. The SCB had made the initial request to host Abbie Hoffman.

Rows of students seated at the convocation, two painted banners seen reading "If free speech is dead..." and "Come together."

Special presidential commission letter filed by President Frank Vandiver on April 11, 1970, commending the SA for withdrawing the Hoffman invitation and calling for the formation of a special commission to advise Vandiver on the issues raised by the…

A letter written to the Dean of Students from the SA president Reed Martin that was singed in the 1970 Dean's office fire.

The Student Center Board decision letter copied onto ditto paper, which announces their withdrawal of the Hoffman request.

Students sit and smoke in the lobby of the Allen Center during the occupation in protest of the administration's refusal to host radical speaker Abbie Hoffman.

A painted banner saying "OCCUPIED!" is strung up on the glass doors of the Allen Center building during the student protests regarding the administration's refusal to host Abbie Hoffman and his lawyer Leonard Weinglass.