"fr cusak had a reputation as a hard nut back in those days.[yelling hitting jacking you up in the hall"

I remeber the incident and Cusaks' discussion of it in my classroom (class '69) afterwards. The substance of the discussion was don't blame the police.. they were just acting like cops, at least that's what I recall. (I remember that the police shot the kid, but I could be wrong, it was a long time ago)

Regarding the reputation, I always wondered why the shots were aimed at Cusak. Yes he was tough, but,IIRC, it was the dean of discipline that meted out the discipline. Cusack was class advisor, and I do not recall him ever "roghing up" or being physical with a student. He was definately forceful in making his opinion known (no mistakes there), but I don't recall him touching a student

I did not know the student. Does anyone remember a specific interaction between him and Cusack that might have precipitated the incident? I'm assuming here he took a shot at Cusak for a reason other than college planning advice. Or, am I off base? Was cusak just a convient target?

No criticism of the police, I was not making decisions that day, but I always wondered why they had to rush the kid. At the very least, that rush with guns drawn was the precipitating incident for the kid's death. I wondered why they could not have covered him, evacuated the school, and got his mother or father in to talk him off the roof. Does anyone know of a formal review of the incident?

I wonder if a police report survives form that error.

Thanks for bringing up the incident. I think about it too after all these years (before I saw it here) and wondered if anyone else rembered that poor kid.

--george

"I wonder if a police report survives form that error."

Talk about your Freudian slips... I wanted to say "from that era"