Vice President Agnew's
anti-liberal attacks were taken by many as an expression of Nixon's
feelings which he preferred not to express himself.
The Black Panthers and the police became involved in a number of
confrontations or "shoot-outs" which the former believed to be the
result of a nationally organized, official repression. The police, at
the same time, accused the Panthers of deliberately trying to kill
"pigs," the Panthers' name for the police, and the Panthers accused
the police of deliberately creating situations which would allow them
to kill the Panther leadership. Before long, most of the Panther
leaders were either under arrest, had been killed, or had fled into
exile to avoid being arrested.
As civil disorders diminished in the ghettoes, college campuses were
increasingly rocked by student riots. In part, it was because students
asked for changes in the university structure. Black students demanded
that courses in black studies be initiated and that colleges
aggressively recruit new black students even if their grades were
below admission standards. Some urban schools, like Columbia
University, were accused by black and white students of diminishing
the housing of ghetto residents to make the university's expansion
possible.
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