Item MS-2-805, Box 1, Item 2 - Photograph of students playing cards outside the Student Union Building, blocking a tow truck driver attempting to remove Michel Guite's car

Item is the second of two photographs illustrating what Stephen Archibald called a "proto-demonstration" in the winter of 1967. Michel Guite, a Dalhousie student and the owner of the sports car hooked up to the tow truck in the photograph, had for some time been ignoring the campus security guard's requests to purchase a parking pass, which was a relatively new requirement on campus. The security guard eventually called a tow truck to have the car removed. When a group of young men in the Student Union Building noticed the tow truck driver breaking into the car, they shifted some furniture outside and resumed their card game while blocking the truck, which is the image caught in this photograph. Stephen Archibald's notes add: "In the confusion I believe someone let the air out of the tow truck tires. Meanwhile, Michel head what was happening and went over to the campus office and bought a parking pass which he then put on his car. How can you tow a car for not having a pass when it clearly has a pass?"