The Nation - News from July 3, 1986
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Kent State officials, amid some criticism of their decision, disqualified the winning design for a memorial to mark the shootings of 13 students at a 1970 war protest because a member of the design team is Canadian. University trustees, acting on the recommendation of President Michael Schwartz, then voted to choose a design by Bruno Ast and Thomas J. Rasmussen of Chicago, who originally finished second. Contest rules required all entrants to be U.S. citizens.
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