Hundreds of OSU students, along with students at colleges and universities across the nation, participated in National Moratorium Day events. Approximately 600 people marched from the MU quad to Central Park west of downtown. Other events included lectures and discussion teach-ins at the MU, a debate in the MU ballroom that drew 800 attendees, and an evening lecture by former United States Senator from Oregon and outspoken Vietnam War critic Wayne Morse.
OSU attracted nationally known pop and rock artists to campus in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the concerts were held in Gill Coliseum. Diamond also performed at OSU in 1970.
OSU has a long and successful history of rugby as a club sport, which was established in 1961. It has won several Pacific Northwest Rugby Union Collegiate Conference championships, including seventeen between 1981 and 2005. This photo appeared in the 1969 Beaver yearbook.
Convocation speaker, Julian Bond, Georgia House of Representatives member spoke at OSU's 1970/1971 Convocation-Lecture Series. Bond played a key role in the civil rights movement in the 1960s and he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.