This newspaper article is titled, "Tackover at SC." This article is printed in the Springfield Union. The article discusses the takeover of Massasoit hall at Springfield College. The article notes that it took the students participating in the takeover one day to inform the school that their reason was for the poor handling of student demands from February 19, 1969 and March 12, 1969. The students who participated in the takeover forced students out of their rooms. This article claims that this event tore down higher educations image. To the right of the article is a cartoon of Snoopy on his dog house and Charlie Brown running to him with a blanket in-front of Massasoit Hall with the words, "Gotta Sleep Someplace.". Materials contained within this scrapbook were removed from the original physical scrapbook due to preservation issues. Most documents were originally glued to the pages of the scrapbook, but the glue was failing and the documents were becoming loose and were falling out of the scrapbook. Documents may already have lost their original order and/or may have been lost due to this damage. The damage was getting worse with every use. Therefore, to protect the documents and to facilitate use of the documents, the documents were remove. The documents were left in the order that they were found at the time of removal.
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