School opens. First student organization forms, Lyceum, a literary society. Protarian, later Phoenix, forms. First of the Phoenix/Lyceum debates. Debates and oratorical contests would remain the preeminent of student activities well into the 1930s. Normal Advance begins publication as a voice of the student body. Booker T. Washington visits campus. Alethean holds its first Christmas “Romp” for poor children of Oshkosh, providing stories, games and stockings. This becomes an annual tradition for several years until the Elks club takes over the event.	Jessie Jack Hooper, famous Oshkosh suffragist, addresses students with a talk “The International Court as a Means of Maintaining World Peace.” Junior League of Women Voters is created on campus to prepare newly franchised 21-year-old women for voting. photo courtesy of the Oshkosh Public Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. All rights reserved. International Relations Club organizes. Young Republicans and the Young Democrats are first organized. These groups will be reorganized again in 1956 and 1958, respectively. John F. Kennedy visits campus during his campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination, gives talk at Swart Hall and coffee hour at Reeve Memorial Union, sponsored by the Young Democrats. Hopeful Hubert H. Humphrey also campaigns on campus that year.	WSU-Oshkosh “Goldwater Girls” come out to support appearances by Barry Goldwater Jr., Richard Nixon, and then the candidate himself. More than 20 students demonstrate against presidential candidate George Wallace during his visit. Pickett 255, an early alternative press with a liberal voice, begins publication, followed by others over the years, including The Blade in 1969. The Black Student Union forms to organize black students on campus and advance their cause.	Dick Gregory visits; 2,500 attend. On the same day George Wallace appears downtown; many students protest with shouts of “Sieg Heil.” On Nov. 21, 94 black students and several supporters are arrested after occupying University President Roger Guiles’ office with a list of demands to make the campus more hospitable to minority students. Hundreds of white students march in protest of the treatment of those arrested, while others call for their immediate expulsion.	Oshkosh Student Senate calls for a student strike if the campus administration does not make progress on black student demands. On Oct.14, more than 2,000 students and citizens join others nationwide in holding a candle-lit march against the Vietnam War.	Protesting the war in Indochina, the Kent State shootings and traffic hazards on campus, students take to Algoma Boulevard in May, ripping apart the pavement and barricading the street with cars. They are met by riot police and angry citizens. Chicanos Unidos, a Hispanic student group forms, as does the Native American Student Association. The Chinese Student Association is formed. The Gay Student Association is recognized by OSA.	Students protest the South African tug-of-war team during international championships. The team is forced to stay in hotels rather than Gruenhagen. More anti-apartheid rallies followed. While visiting Oshkosh, President Ronald Reagan is met by several topless female students with signs reading “Naked Not Nuked!”