After the shootings at Kent State students at Ohio University in Athens rioted. It was so bad they had to close down the University. I wasn't there, then but I heard stories. The air was mostly teargas, nearly killing a couple of asthmatics. The riots did in a couple of local businesses, and one very earnest graduate student had to admit that she regretted missing the Siglympics and the Miss Watermelon Bust contest.

In the spring of 1976, the O.U. Post published an article about the riots after Kent State. That night the students rioted again. (Not me, I had an assignment due that Monday.)