Heath, LynnShaw, SydBuechel, WayneRichards, Lynn2009-10-232009-10-231969http://hdl.handle.net/10605/122"The Catalyst: A Special Altruistic Project for the Long-Range Benefit of the Student Body" is comprised of 6 pages of student written articles, editorials, satires and political statements. This issue contained articles on the newly established Free Speech Area at Texas Tech, monitoring of homosexual activity in the Administration Building, an anti-war editorial, a protest riot on campus, marijuana, the Texas International Pop Festival, and the rock group Santana. The issue sold for 10 cents.The Catalyst was an underground and controversial newspaper written by Texas Tech students from 1969-1971. The newspaper contained political and social statements and parodies on events occuring during the time of the paper's existence.6 p. : 29 cm.en-USThe images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. To use these digital files in any form, an attribution of "Courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library" must accompany the image.Social history--1960-1970--Newspapers.Social history--1970--Newspapers.Radicalism--United States--Newspapers.Social movements--United States--Newspapers.Gay rights--United States--History.Gay liberation movement--United States--History.Homosexuality--United States.Protest movements--United States--History--20th century.Peace movements--United States--History--20th century.Political activists--United States--History--20th century.Drug control--United States.Drug legalization--United States.Social problems--United States.Cannabis--Social aspects--United States.Marijuana smoking--legislation and jurisprudence--United States.Student movements--United States--History--20th century.College students--United States--Political activity--History--20th century.Santana, Carlos.Other