The UW in the early seventies was, in the words of the Tyee, a time of
"construction and destruction". While common place buildings nowadays were
being constructed, such as Kane, Odegaard, Schmitz, Meany and Red Square,
there was a strong feeling of unrest on campus. In 1969 the entrance to the
Administration Building (now Gerberding Hall) was blasted open with explosives
(believed to contain nitroglycerine). Demonstrations were held to protest
"discriminatory hiring practices" by the contractors. The Vietnam war was
slowly coming to a close and anti-war sentiment was running high, coupled with
recent layoffs by Boeing. Clark Hall was made the target of a couple attacks,
arson in 1968 and a bomb in 1970 from a group calling itself the
"Quarter Moon Tribe of the Woodstock Nation".
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