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May 10, 2018 — Today is anniversary of the only official riot in North Dakota state history.

It started innocently. In April of 1969, NDSU student body president Chuck Stroup couldn’t afford to go to Florida with his sister for spring break. So he came up with a cheap alternative and took it to NDSU’s school paper, "The Spectrum." He was planning a gathering near his hometown of Hazen to...