12 COPIES . Partly sunny and becoming gradually warmer today. High near 55. Cool tonight with a slight chance of light showers; low. near 40. Mostly sunny and , milder tomorrow. High . near 62. Partly sunny and warmer Sunday. Chance of-rain 30% to night. VOL. 68, No. 111 New York Cativu4.ets Torn by Protest Nation's Students Register Protest NEW YORK (W) College , students angry over a wide variety of grievances, many with racial overtones, have brought tumult to campuses from coast to coast in recent weeks. In a rare display of militancy, some groups occupied college buildings and forced cancellation of classes. In two demonstrations court orders were invoked to restore peace. Protest Gym Project At Columbia University in New York demonstrators protesting plans to build its gymnasium In a park in a Negro neighborhood ransacked and took over the office of the school President and held a dean and two aides captive for more than 24 hours. The Columbia siege continued Thursday with a class room sit-in which kept one-fourth of the 10,000 day stu dents from their studies. Meanwhile, 15 students who said they were members of the Students Organization for Black Unity took over the office of the provost of Long Island University's Brooklyn campus. Another 50 sat on the floor outside the locked door. The Brooklyn campus has about 7,000 students. More Negro Scholarships A .spokesman for the Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality 'said the students wanted more scholarships for Negroes, more Negroes on the faculty, courses on Negro history and culture and a pay raise for janitors and other non-academic staff members. A sit-in by 300 Negro students behind the chained doors of the administration building at Boston University ended Wednesday with .a promise by the school president to increase the number of black students and offer a course in Afro-American history. The school has 22,690 students. Weeks of Unrest This week's incidents climaxed weeks of campus nil:. rest across the country, involving everything from a rebel lion against school rules to a demand for a student voice in the selection of faculty members. In most cases the activists were a small fraction of the student body. At Columbia, for instance, only a few hundred of .the 27,000 students were involved in the demonstrations. Many of the.others were openly hostile to it. At Olympic Community College in Bremerton. Wash., a score of students invaded the president's office Wednes day vowing to stay until the disciplinary expulsion of the student body's president-elect was rescinded. Told To Leave The president-elect, Forrest Adkins, 26, was told to leave after being accused of shouting obscenities at the fac islty director of student affairs. (Continued on page ten) Lord Love a Duck! PEOPLE MUST too if we judge by the attention this duckling is getting. Unless an eager beaver with a camera has innocently photographed a bunch of quacks. • Allied Officials Warn of Enemy Attacks SAIGON Allied officials warned Yesterday of pos sible enemy offensives in two critical areas the far north and Saigon. And a clash in the central highlands pointed to another danger point. U. S. concern centered on the A Shau Valley, the gate way from Laos to the old imperial capital of Hue and other northern cities hit hard in the enemy Tet offensive last February. With intelligerice reports indicating 20 enemy battalions within striking distance of Hue, 25 miles northeast of the A Shau Valley, about 2,000 South Vietnamese paratroopers have moved into blocking positions. Striking out southwest of Hue, the paratroopers have not run into serious opposition but have destroyed 10 North Vietnamese trucks and seized 330 pounds of dynamite since swinging into action last Friday, a government communique said. The U. S. Ist Air Calvary Division in a directive warned its officers they should expect a high level of enemy initiated action soon in the north. It said intelligence re ports have indicated an enemy offensive would begin in late April or early May to coincide with the rice harvest in the north. * * * Soviet Union Tests Orbital Bomb Systeni zlescow The Soviet Union yesterday announced launching of a new Cosmos in terms that might mean it was the first tent of an orbital bomb system since the United , States declared this country seemed to be developing such a weapon. It simultaneously announced another launching of an unm nned sp9ceship on a new type of orbit whose purpose was , Tt. evon: ~:,.:.,,,~.~..~,.......m~ Hr . 411, •Aar' 1 . , IV N. 11 ' : .'.. ' 4, . • - • _ _ t 'el 1 / 4 . - ~-:,...7, ,.3 ill _ .. I ..,....„ .... ..,...„0 : _... , .. 1 / 4 1„,N. fit trgi . .. • —Collegian Pholo by Pierre liellicini News from the. World, Nation 10 Pages —Collegian Photo by Doug Noakes NEWLY-INSTALLED congressmen .Bonnie, Smith (left) and Colette Straub hear Vice President-Elect Ted Thompson present his views on changing the term system at last night's meeting of the Undergraduate Student Government. Outgoing junior class presi dent Mitch Work is at right. USG iostotts::,,ffov:.Congressmen By KITTY 'PHILBIN Collegian USG Reporter New congressmen, including the winner of the debated West Halls race were installed' last night at the Undergraduate Student Gov ernment meeting. Ronald Yasbin, East Halls Congressman; Bonnie Smith and Leann Dawes, Pollock- Nittany; Elena Ciletti, North; Colette Straub, South; and James Sandman, Inter-Fraterni ty Council congressman were officially seated on the Congress. Barry Todd was certified as the winner of the contested election in West Halls. Jay Hertzog, write-in candidate for the West Halls seat, had been responsible for the delayed decision because of his protest that students were not told how to write in his name on the voting machines. Last night Hertzog withdrew his pro test. "The damage my protest has done to USG has been tremendous," he said. He added that he would not oppose the seating of Todd because, "I want USG to move forward and become. a dynamic or organization." Elections Commissioner Ed Dench reported that the West Halls contest had been settled, after the questioning of 423 students revealed only two .per cent of the voters had difficulty in casting their votes, Dench said that' of 646 voting, 26 said they were not given information on voting, were uncertain about information they had received, or had trouble working the, voting machines. Dench said this group's difficulties would not necessitate a revote in West, and gave the final totals as Barry Todd (Student- Lion), 373 votes, and Garry .Wainser (New), 185 votes after a one per cent dock. Dench refused a request from Chirra to reconsider :the docking of New Party Vice Presidential Candidate Steve Gerson. Dench contended that the Elections Commission ruled on the docking without notice of elec tion totals, and therefore there was no need to reevaluate Gerson's tallies. In committee reports, Joe Chirra, chair man of ,the Choice '6B electior, announced that despite problems with polling places on )from the associated press,,,, Robert S. McNamara, then U , S. secretary of 'defense, disclosed the suspicions about a Soviet orbital bomb system at a Washington news conference Nov. 3. lie said it could become combat-ready in 1968. As described by McNamara; the system would consist of a nuclear warhead launched into a low orbit, from which it would be dropped on its target before the earth had been circled once. Diplomatic . sources here said afterward the Soviet UniOn was believed to be using its Cosmos space prOgram as a cover for testing the system. They said that as of ,then 10 tests seemed to have been made. • * ,* * Churches. Issue Statement on Marriage • LONDON Roman Catholics and Anglicans disclosed agreement yesterday on a basis for discussing mixed mar riages by members of the two churches. . • A statement, issued jointly from the Church of England Council on Foreign Relations and the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian-Unity, said the agreement covered three fundamental theological principles from which future progress might be made. These were: the unity conferred by baptism, the unity conferred by marriage, and the pas toral and disciplinary consequences of these, The statement was issued following a three 7 day meet ing at St. George's House, Windsor Castle, of the joint Ang lican-Roman Catholic Subcomntission on the Theology of Marriage and its application to mixed marriages. King Murder Suspect Released in Mexico HERMOSILLO, Son., Mexico An American arrested by Mexican officials because they thought he resembled pictures of the man wanted in the slaying of Dr. Martin UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1968 Todd Winner in Contested West Halls Race the Ma 11,,, 8,000 'students voted in .the mock presidential election Wednesday. Chirra said the-results Will be processed at the Univac center in WaShington, D.C. and will be available at the beginning of May. He said that Time Magazine, sponsor of Choice '6B, has promised to send the results to the University before releasing the figures nationally. Spring Concert: Chairman Fred Kirschner confirmed that the Simon and Garfunkel concert May fifth sold out within two hours. Kirschner said that the preferential and complimentary tickets for the concert must be picked up today in the Hetzel Union Building between 9:30 and 4:30. Any of these Humphrey Predicts Success For Peaceful Negotiations WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. and North Vietnamese representatives met again yes terday in Laos without coming to agreement on a site for preliminary peace talks. But the fact that the North Vietnamese charge d'affaires in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, invited the U.S. ambassador over for a 30 minute chat was seen here as a possibly hopeful sign of Communist interest in break ing the deadlock. Humphrey Predicted Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey pre dicted yesterday that "in a very short time a place will be agreed upon for the preliminary talks." Humphrey, speaking at Oxford, Miss., forecast success for peace negotiations pro vided both sides have the will for a peaceful solution, It has - •been more than three weeks since Washington and Hanoi publicly proclaimed their readiness for direct talks. But so far the opposing, sides have bogged down in argu- ..~,..,~..:;~FM. Luther King was released yesterday after questioning. Daniel Kennedy, the suspect, had nothing but praise for. Mexicans upon his, release. According to police in Hermosillo, an FBI agent identi fied only as Mr. Smith said Kennedy did not look like James Earl Ray, the fugitive wanted on charges of slaying King. ' He had been 'detained 4 hours after police in nearby Ca borca arrested him. "I guess anyone else would be mad, but I can't be angry with these people," Kennedy said. "They thought I looked like James Ray and they were only doing their duty." * * * Rickover Tells of Defense Plant Profits WASHINGTON Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover has charged again in closed hearings before a House committee that many corporations doing defense contract work are making excessive profits and that the Defense Department is both unwilling and unable to stop it. He. also was charged that profits reported by defense contractors , are often substantially lower than the profits they make and that excessive profits are hidden by book keeping procedures. In the'period 1964 - to 1967, profits on defense contracts rose-by 25-per cent over 1959-63, Rickover told the House Banking and Currency Comrdittee on April 11. Although the committee voted this week to make Rickover's ,testimony public, it had not been published. * * * Scott Protests Equal Time Broadcasting WASHINGTON Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Fa., ranking mi nority member of the senate canmun'f-:l4.i^ns Columbia, LIU Students Seize Control of Buildings . NEW YORK (AP) Black and white stu- headquarters in Nassau County, adjoining New dent militantS widened their beachhead at York City to the east. Columbia University's Tvy League campus to 'Lai ' the head of the Brooklyn unit, was four buildings yesterday. Across town, in the allowed to come and go from his office. more prosaic setting of a converted Brooklyn The aims of the predominantly Negro stu theatre, Long Island University students seized dent demonstration were enunciated through control of the acting provost's office. the Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality. Both demonstrations involved racial issues, The LIU demonstrators were said to be although at Columbia a number of white stu- objecting to the . proposed sale of the Brooklyn dents also protested the Vietnam war. New campus to City University. They also demanded York City police stood by on both campuses, courses in black history and culture, more but made no attempt to confront the rebellious Negro teachers, higher wages for non-academ- students.ic employes, and office space and equipment . . _ An estimated 2,500 of Columbia's 10,000 day to be operated by their organization for the students were barred from classes by The dem- benefit of the Negro community. onstrators, who held three classroom buildings The Columbia demonstrators first seized and President Grayson Kirk's office. The uni- control on Tuesday of Hamilton Hall, the uni versity's over-all enrollment is 17,000. versity's main classroom building, and one of Threaten Reprisals about 70 on the upper Manhattan campus. Some students were angry at being turned About 100 Negro students remained there Thursday away, and threatened reprisals against the - demonstrators, whose strength was estimated Subsequently, on Wednesday, the protester s ransacked and seized President Kirk's office at between 300 and. 400. School officials said in the Loin Memorial Library, leaving behind some nonstudents also ha' joined the demon a holding force of 50 whites. stration on a campus that adjoins Negro Then about 100 white students took over Harlem. Dean Henry Coleman, one of three Colum- Avery Hall, while another 30 whites locked l bia officials held captive for 24 hours earlier thmsves buildings. iside Fayerweather Hall. Both are in the demonstration, told a wildly cheering-classroom Professors Barred meeting of 359 non-demonstrators that there will Among nondemonktrating students and be no amnesty, as demanded by the protesting faculty members denied entry to their class group. He added: rooms were Paul Lazarsfeld. a noted sociolo "It is clear that the administration will gist. He said of the demonstrtion: "I find it have to take definite action to end this. I am pretty un-understandable. I watch it." certain that such definitive action will have William Goode, also a sociologist, said: to be taken by this evening. . . . "I think they're a bunch of storm troopers . . . Only Small Percentage They believe that freedom must mean they "I personally have no intention of seeing win. They don't realize it means you are 2,500 students at • Columbia college let .down allowed to compete." because of the actions of 200." The primary demand of the Negro demon- At the Long Island University Brooklyn strators at Columbia was for cancellation of campus, 15 members of a Students Organiza- an $11.5 million gymnasium construction pro tion for Black Unity barricaded themselves- gram in a section of Morningside Park leased in the third-floor office of Acting Provost from the city. They claimed the expansion William T. Lai. About 50 others gathered out- would rob Harlem childern of play space. side the office. The Brooklyn center of LIU is White demonstrators at .the 214-year-old housed in the former Brooklyn Paramount university also sought Columbia's withdrawal theatre building . from the Institute for Defense Analysis, call- The Brooklyn center has 7,000 students. It ing it a Defense Department research project is one of four campuses of LIU, which has its in furtherance of the Vietnam war. tickets not claimed today will be sold to the general public Monday,. Simon and Garfunkel refused to per.: form in a second show; :Kirschner. added. There will be no second group performing with _the folksingers; who will present a pro gram exceeding an hour. The concert will begin the week-long Spring Arts Festival, Festival activities will range from a student rilm festival in Clam bers to street concerts by the Neiv Dimen sion String Band, the Jazz Spokesmen, the Gilded Seven, the Vanguards, the Mauve Electron, and the Munchkins., Class rings will be on sale "hopefully next fall" in the'Book Exchange in the HUB, ac- ment over where their special envoys should meet. State Department press offi,cer Robert .1. McCloskey confirmed an Associated Press re port from Vientiane that U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan went to the North Vietnamese embassy to see Hanoi's top diplomat there, Nguyen Chan. `No Agreement' The State Department spokesman added "there is no agreement yet on the site." and he declined further comment on the exchange. Washington has proposed 15 Asian and European capitals as possible locations for talks to determine whether peace negotiations are possible. Hanoi has declined to budge so far from its proposal that the envoys meet in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, or Warsaw, capital of Communist Poland. ' U.S. authorities here said North Vietnam regards the location of the proposed talks as an important issue and it is mounting diplo matic' pressure for Warsaw as a place agree able to Hanoi and painful to Washington. cording to Senior Class President 'Nfiie Hobbs, chairman of the - committee investi gating:the ring situation. "The're will be an overall substantial savings for students," Hobbs said. • Galen Godbey, student member of the Academics, Athletics, and Admissions Stand ards Committee of the Faculty Senate, asked USG's opinion of a program changing the current system of academic probation. The bill will go before the University Senante May 7. It would eliminate the pres ent practice of barring students on proba tion .from engaging in extracurricular ac tivities. "Godbey said that the Dean of Men, Dean of Women and other Administrators con cluded that it is "a lot of bunk" that the University suppdses students in suspension spend time studying rather than participating in other, activities. The new system would be based on grade point deficiencies, calculated as being the total grade points less the number of credits multiplied by two. Depending on term stand ing, students would be permitted a certain deficiency. Beyond that, they would receive a warning slip, giving them time to drop out and enter another college. Godbey said the program increases in dividual responsibility in that students may be dropped by the University after each term, rather than 'only at the end of periods of three terms. Godbey concluded by saying that the AAAS Committee had decided that the Uni versity is not doing students any favors by letting them' "drift along" on probation. The Congress responded by giving unani mous backing to the proposal. Larry Spancake, student member of the Resident Instruction Committee Of the Sen ate, reported on calendar changes_ under consideration, changing the system to one of semester periods, of 10 or 15 week length, among other arrangements. An opinion poll will be distributed to students and faculty in the near'future, as sessing their reactions to a semester system, Spancake said. & State introduced in Congress yesterday a bill to suspend for this year the equal time requirement for political broadcasts. Similar bills have been introduced in. the House but remain in committee. Scott, a former Republican national chairman, said suspension of the equal time requirement would encourage "broader- public discussion of essential national issues in this vital election year." Under the Federal Communications Act, any broad caster making his facilities available to one candidate for a political office must make time available on an equal basis to any other candidate for the same office. Federal Mediators Discuss Phone Strike PHILADELPHIA Federal mediators met with both sides yesterday trying to settle - a statewide telephone strike. About 13,000 plant, accounting and service employes, represented by the independent •Federation of Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania struck Bell Telephone Co. early Thursday in a wage dispute. Most had been off the job since last Friday, however, honoring Communications Workers of American picket lines. CWA earlier struck Western Electric Co., which has facilities in many Bell buildings, in a contract dispute. Because -so •much of Bell's equipment is automated, little effect on service is reported except in calls requiring operators. I. C. Glendenning, federation president, said his mem bers joined the 1,000 Western Electric Co. employes who are picketing. The federation originally asked a 14.2 per cent across the-board pay increase over 18 months. The company offer ed a contract estimated at $7 million a year. Kennedy: High Ideals and Common Sense ---See Page 2 SEVEN CENTS
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