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The explosion, Avhich tossed a few clods of sod about 20 feet in the air, seemed rather an anticlimax to an afternoon which had begun with the preceremonial appearance of a rumored band of pickets. Parading signs reading "Ban the Bomb," "Free Love," "No Detonation Without Education," "Commies for LBJ," the pickets were clearly farceurs whose explicit "gag" was met by at least one counter-demonstration, "Use ^the Bomb in Vretnam." Dean 'Security Officer' One local TV station was that evening to broadcast i ts coverage of "the university security officer" moving among the crowd taking names. Evidently Dean of Students S. W. Higginbotham took to heart the picket's sign of "Down With Everything" and, perhaps interpreting everything to include signs, dispersed the students. Higginbotham later stated his feeling that the demonstration was presented entirely as a joke, that it was an insignificant affair , though re'gretably embarrassing to the university in the presence of NASA and the press. "I feel i t did make our students appear unfortunately frivolous."