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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student body's president-elect was rescinded.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
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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.
•
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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-
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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
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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
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