Students were heavily involved in the early protests against the war. a survey by the urban research corporation, for the first six months of _____ only, and for only ____ of the nation's two thousand institutions of higher education, showed that at least ______ students had participated in campus protests, that ____ had been arrested, that ____ had been suspended or expelled. even in the high schools, in the late sixties, there were five hundred underground newspapers. at the brown university commencement in 1969, two-thirds of the graduating class turned their backs when henry kissinger stood up to address them.