The Loyola Phoenix: Guerilla Theatre Accents Death Day
Item
Title
The Loyola Phoenix: Guerilla Theatre Accents Death Day
Description
An article by Steve Sandford with four photographs discusses the "Death Day" demonstration held at the Lake Shore Campus in protest to the Vietnam War. The "guerilla theatre" techniques included marching with chilling protest songs, mock battles and death, and bitterly sarcastic performances of a draft lottery, "the winningest lottery in the whole world." The demonstrations were meant to provoke other students and call attention to the continuing war and its effects on students. Students taking part wanted peace, and they hoped to at least inspire a few people to reconsider the country's actions.
The four photos (clockwise from top) depict the cloaked skeleton figure presiding over the events, the lottery caller, two participants with striped face paint, and a group of marchers walking and chanting, "What is all the killing for?"
The four photos (clockwise from top) depict the cloaked skeleton figure presiding over the events, the lottery caller, two participants with striped face paint, and a group of marchers walking and chanting, "What is all the killing for?"
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
1970-10-23
File name
The Loyola Phoenix, 1970-10-23, page 13.
Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives
University Archives and Special Collections
Source
University Archives and Special Collections, The Loyola Phoenix, 1970-10-23, page 13.
Subject
Loyola University Chicago
Student life activism
Rights
Contact the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections, archive@luc.edu, for permission to copy or publish.
