When students gathered outside the Capitol to protest the arrest of radical SDS member Phil Sanford, police officers lined up on the steps to keep the students from entering and to enforce order if necessary.
In the spring of 1969, a group of SDS sympathizers performed a humorous guerrilla theater reenactment of the Night of Bayonets. Students pulled the strings of an effigy of President Marshall, mocking him as a puppet of the State Board of Regents.
In April of 1971, several FSU students traveled to Washington, D.C., to partake in the Vietnam War Out Now Rally, a peaceful demonstration against the war.