• Ao • 0 ff . 411.0"--t. . 0 4 : _ • _ 33E__ . .• •„. .• k eol WAY 4 r Ait 04 P: gf l ir tiallY .34,8 .. z .e r tft4orti t - AV. -.411 Volume XXT—No. 24 8 Arrested In Old Unrest Remains Reprinted from the Daily Collegian by Jim Wiggins Collegian Staff Writer Six students and two non-students - were arrested yesterday af ter about 175 State Police surrounded Old Main in a, move to en force last week's - court injunction barring disruption of University activities. Former student Mark Pachtrnan and Alan (Commander Ali) Cunningham. (3rd-science -Philadelphia) were arrested under a war rant stemming from last Wednesday's disturance at Old Main_ The six others were arrested for throwing rocks at police vehicles as they withdraw from Old Main en route to Beaver Stadium. Five busloads of police arrived at Old Main at 5 p.m. and pro ceeded to surround the building. Witneq-setks at Old Main said that when the police arrived no students remained in the building. A group of about 50 students, coming from a rally held earlier in front of Willard, went into the Administration building earlier in the day in an attempt to talk to University administrators. The students milled in the hallways and gathered in the office of University President Eric A. Walker. According to Walker's sec retary, the president was not in the building at the time. At about 4:40 pm., Jeff Sill, one of the students inside Old Main, called for a discussion of those present to decide whether to leave or violate the injunction and remain. The decision was made to leave, but those inside agreed that little had been accomplished during the day, "Communication is at an absolute zero," Sill said. "It's worse than it was a week ago." At Sill's suggestion, tile .students in the building declared Old Main "strike headquarters," and agreed to, return every day until they considered communication channels with administrators suf ficiently. open. At about 4:58 p.m. they filed out of the building. As the students left the building five busloads of state police equipped with riot helmets and clubs arrived at the back of Old Main and proceeded to surround the building. At the sight of police, a crowd of angry students began to gath er-by- the-rou.ses, which were surrounded by a chain of troopers. Many SGA Announces Proposed Schedule Ed. Note: This is the third in a series of articles directed at in forming the student body on aims and activities of the Student Gov vernment lisiociation here at Belirend. CUB Staff Writer Gather in Prexy Office It's no big secret that one of the weakest 1 - nks in the chain of university scheduling has been the Way Penn State handles holidays. Every Thanksgiving, mater, and Memorial Day, - countless Penn State students find themselves forced to skip classes in order to aud.r...; BEHREND CAMPUS OP I:J:LN_: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY Main Confrontation At University Park students began chants of "Pigs Off Campus" and "Power to the People." At 5:20 pm., police grabbed Pachtman and Cunningham from the crowd and put them aboard one of the buses. According to po lice sources, the two were arrested for Tnnlicious mischief and de struction of property - under a warrant issued last Wednesday. Shortly after the arrests, a group of student leaders including Undergraduate Student Government President Ted Thompson con fronted Director of Campus Security William C. Pelton in an at tempt to find out why the arrests had taken place. Thompson said Pelton told him he did not know, and would have to consult Robert H. Barnes, head of Security's Investigative Division, for the answer. Shortly afterward a student in the crowd threw a rock at the bus into which Pachtman and Cunningham were taken. He was As the procession passed Schwab another student, "who had earlier •thrown a rock, was grabbed by •police and put aboard the chased by the police, subdued and also put aboard the bus. The five arrested for rock throwing were Haldon Sutton, be lieved to be a former student, Gordon P. Svec (3rd liberal arts- Monessen), Joseph Schneller (10th-political science-Philadelphia), Richard A. Parkany (Bth-computer science-Sharpsville) and Thom as Willenbecher (6th-English-Allentown). Students To Be Arraigned A spokecinan for the State Police said the rock throwing stu dents will be arraigned before a Justice of the Peace today. Pacht man and Cunningham will be charged with contempt of court be fore Centre County Judge R. Paul Campbell. According to police, all students arrested yesterday were held. overnight at Centre County jail. After the third arrest, the buses headed west from Old Main on Curtin Road. They were led by a squad car and surrounded by lines of police who marched alongside. The crowd, now about 2,000 strong, followed the buses. They (Contiuned on Page 3) spend the holidays at home with family or friends. - Well, after years of frustration, the University Senate has finally attacked the problem and come up with a new schedule for all term... . • Accor(ll4:4 . . to this revised sched- Sansone Explains His Reasons For Resigning "I resigned because they asked me to" was Frank Sansone's re ply to the question posed by the CUB last week—Why did Cohen Sansone, and Spie'mann resign? When asked for the official reasi ons behind his choice to resign, Sansone said the administration of fered . . . "`no objective" reasons, they didn't criticize his "profes sional or academic" integrity, but merely stated that they thought he should go back to school to get his Ph.D. Going back to November, it is a fact that the Assistant Direc• tor, John Claridge, checked with Sansone to affirm his return here next fall. But in February Director Irving H. Kochel asked San sone his plans for the future, he replied that he was planning on being here next year, but attending graduate school in 1971. Then Kochel informed him that he must resign or be released. It is a general policy at other institutions to inform instructors of their release in Deceniber, but Kochel insisted that he had let San sone know of his release as soon as was possible. When •asked, if he had had other "run-ins" with the administra tion the sociology instructor brought up the famous "Bitch-in" held in Perry Hall last year, where faculty, administration and students pulled out all stops and criticized, analyzed and offered solutions to Need To Consult Barnes Another Student Grabbed ule orientation begins Sunday, September 20, with Registration Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 24-25-26. Class begins Mon day, September 28. It gives Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 26-27-28, off for Thanksgiv (Continued on Page 2) by Randy S. Kinkead problems such as men-women, d o u ilz 1 e-standards, concerning hours and vistation, and com plained about instructors and ad ministration. Sansone, it turned out, sided generally with the stn..* dents. "The most objective thing that we don't fit into the Sehrend was , of life,' " said Sansone. "The ad ministration takes any criticism . . . as a personal affront. . . He describes his reaction to being asked to resign, "It's like your parents asking you to get a hair... cut." Reflecting on Behrend, Sansone said that he's had over 350 stu dents in his classes this Year, when last year he had 30 to 40 in each class which, too, was too large. He believes that a small group of interested students would do more good than a large group of persons. As it stands now ". . . What's education for—to employ teachers, administrators . . . It's certainly not to educate the stu- dents." He feels students should be more involved, have a say in wh6 gets hired. They have become ". . . passive, receptive, TV audi ences and I'm supposed to enter tain." "Students complain Fra being too lazy and lackasdical, but don't understand I expect them to perform." "All students aren't like this though there are those whose sole Purpose is to get an education (not to degrade others who have afferent purposes). Turning his attention toward the administra tion, he commented "We have an administration that reflects the student bodY." Sansone is satisfied with the reasons for his resignation as pre sented in this article. "I don't fit into the image . . . Behrend should be projecting," he said in reference to the administration. April 24, 1970
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