Williams was an outspoken conservative during the campus unrest era of the 1960s.
It remains to be seen if the recent campus unrest will become a force in the coming elections, political analysts said.
After all, campus unrest has left scars, and vast challenges loom, from the environment to rural discontent.
His brief, nine-month term was marked by the same campus unrest and student protests that were occurring across the United States in 1969.
In those years the university's enrollment rose, despite some notable campus unrest, to 34,000 from 16,000.
Student politicking and campus unrest, now and then exploding into violence, are not unknown in more prosperous and developed countries, including the United States.
It also acted as a catalyst for campus unrest and controversy.
It appeared that law enforcement and university administrations had no idea about how to handle campus unrest.
It happened that I chose a university that had become synonymous with campus unrest.
What happened that night is apparently not in dispute, and in the annals of campus unrest is unextraordinary.