More Stilwell -- Protest march in New York

I didn't want to get too far past May 2012 before restoring and publishing this cartoon that appeared in The Cauldron, Cleveland State University's student newspaper, that month in 1972, four nice, round decades ago. The back story is that a major march and rally protesting the Vietnam War was taking place in New York City. The student goverment at CSU, which usually was immersed in issues that had absolutely no relevance to most of the students at that commuter campus, for a change did something useful by arranging for a couple of buses, probably supported by use of student funds, to make the trip to NYC. Students who couldn't otherwise afford the trip but wanted to be a part of the protest now had the means to get there. Apparently, we each had to kick in $5 as our share of the cost. I went and did my thing along with many others, marching en mass down Broadway, where we converged on a park and listened to speeches. A highlight was an appearance at the rally by John Lennon and Yoko. We sang "Give Peace a Chance." Eventually, the country did. But, hey, it didn't last, did it? The nation had pretty much grown completely fed up with the war at that point. Everyone who made the trip, as far as I could tell, was sincere about its purpose, despite what my cartoon suggests. I was just toying with a motif that some students would be so shallow and narcissistic as to take the $5 round trip just for fun and frivolity. I found no evidence of that in real life. The reference to CTS is to the Cleveland Transit System, the name of the city's public transit system at that time.