Here are a few photos from a strange little protest held sometime in the early 1970s, while we were graduate students at the University of Hawaii’s Manoa Campus.

My brain cells are not yielding full memories of the event. As I recall, it was triggered by a report that the university would not allow beer to be served on campus. Perhaps it was at the “new” campus center. We took it as another paternalistic attempt to control behavior of adult students, and for whatever reason it struck a chord among a group of friends.

With several of us chipping in a few dollars, we bought some beer and proceeded to give cans of beer away on the front steps of Hamilton Library, sort of a direct action protest of the new campus policy. It was obviously tongue-in-cheek, but others seemed to have no trouble getting into the spirit.

Note that campus security was on the scene, but all remained peaceful and they didn’t run us off the library stairs.

Click below to see the photos dredged up from my box of negatives. I do apologize for the condition of the nearly 50-year old negatives, which obviously weren’t stored under the best of conditions.