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Vol. 69, No. 132
Flag Lowering Results In Arrests, Fights
Kupferman Led Away
PAM. KUPFERMAN (center) handcuffed by police after being served a warrant for his
arrest. Kupferman was charged, with malicious mischief to University property. The
arrest followed a demonstration on Old Main lawn in, which the American flag was
lowered to hall-mast.
ThompsonUNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT president
Speaks - Ted Thompson reasons with crowd to "think for a minute,
then leave." Thompson said, "By staying here we're
To Students creating tensions we're not going to solve."
Ali To
By LAURA WERTHEIMER
Collegian Staff Writer
Muhammed Ali, former World
Heavyweight Boxing Champion and
Muslim Minister, will speak at 8 tonight
in Rec Hall.
Ali's presentation will be the second
major speech of "Colloquy: The American
Dream... Conflict 69" and will begin Collo
quy Weekend, a series of 19 panel
discussions and out-of-class ,learning ex
periences.
Al Capp, cartoonist creator of Li'l Ab
ner, humorist and social critic, will speak
at 9 p.m. tomorrow in Rec Hall.
Ralph Nader, author of "Unsafe at Any
Speed" and consumer p roduc ti on
crusader, delivered the Colloquy keynote
address Tuesday in Rec Hall. Nader's
speech was "a very successful kick-off,"
according. to Larry Rubenstein, Colloquy
chairman.
Ali, who is well known for his spec
tacular and colorful career as a
prizefighter, is presently under indict
ment for refusal to serve in the armed
forces. His'resistance of the draft caused
the heavyweight title to be taken from
him by the World Boxing Association. -
`Ali Shuffle'
As a fighter, his innovation of the "Ali
Shuffle" and impromptu poetry, as well
as his well publicized pre-fight wit
ticisms, brought him more attention on
the national scene than•is normally given
to top fighters. His bold claim, Am the
greatest" became his personal
trademark, and in the opinion of many
sportswriters, he may be the best fighter
of all time.
Since his conversion to the Muslim
religion, he has toured the country as a
Muslim Minister and has spoken to church
and local groups as well as college
audiences. As a Muslim, he changed his
name to Muhammed Ali from Cassius
Clay, his name as a prizefighter.
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Elaitg Tatirgi
8' Pages
Student Charged With 'Malicious Mischief to Property'
Colloquy Weekend Begins
Speak Tonight
Ali's speech will be the first major ad
dress given by a Black Muslim at Penn
State. During a recent falling out with the
leaders of the Black Muslims, Ali gave up
his ministry. He still claims allegiance to
the teachings of the Muslim church,
however.
Panel Discussions
After Ali's address, Colloquy wil lhold
four panel discussions in various living
areas around campus.
A discussion on "Drugs: Has the Col
lege Student Gone to Pot?" will be held
at 10:30 p.m. in the Pollock Union Build
ing. The panel will be moderated by
Joseph Wigley, associate professor of
speech. Panelists will be Howard S. Beck
er, professor of sociology at Northwest
ern University; Wiliiam Graffius, execu
tive assistant of the Pennsylvania Health,
Education and Welfare Committee; Patsy
Parker, former president of the Univer
sity of Illinois student government: Rich
ard Schein, associate dean of the College
of Science, and Terry Watson, president
of the U.S. Youth Council.
"Does the Media Mold Mankind?" will
be discussed in Simmons Hall Lounge. It
will be moderated by William Dulaney,
assistant professor of journalism.
On the panel will be James Jimirro. the
manager of CBS International Sales;
Herbert Kramer, senior consultant on
Public Affairs for the Office of Economic
Opportunity; Bruce Martin, editorial
editor of the York Gazette: Edward Mat
til, chairman of the Department of Art
Education: Steven Schlow, instructor of
theatre arts, and Don Schell, creator of
Colloquy.
'Muddled Middle East'
In the West Falls Living are. Jackson
J. Spielvogel, assistant firofessor of
history, will moderate "The Muddled
Middle •East: More Than A Local Pro
blem." On the panel will be Emanuel
—Collegian Photos by Pierre Betlicini
Feuchtwang, assistant professor o f
physics, who served in the Israeli War of
Independence: Arthur Goldschmidt, as
sistant professor of Middle East History:
James Hammerlee, of the Concern
Through • Action Committee at Bucknell
University, and Ahmad Totonji, former
president of the Muslim Stud en t
Association of the United States and
Canada.
Charles Hostler, dean of the College of
Earth and Mineral Sciences. will
moderate "For Black To Be Beautiful,
Must White Be Ugly?" in the East Halls
Recreation Room. The panelists are the
Rev. Clayton Fox, former member of the
Ku Klux Klan and a former candidate
for the Pennsylvania Senate: Rep Eugene
Fulmer (R-Centre); Charles Luthardt,
chairman of the Fighting American
Nationalists.
Sen. Clarence Mitchell. state senator
from Maryland, former chairman of Stu
dent Non-Violent Co-ordinating Com
mittee: Stanley Paulson, dean of the Col
lege of the Liberal Arts: Henry Smith,
president of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People in
Pennsylvania, and Bouie Haden, of the
Community Action Commission - in
Pittsburgh.
All of the panel discussions will be held
Oxford style, so that the audience may
participate in the discussions at any time.
According to Stu Silver, publicity direc
tor for Colloquy, every effort will be
made to have all segments of the Univer
sity community—students, faculty and
Administration—participate fully in the
whole spectrum of learning experiences
offered during Colloquy weekend.
In addition to the panels, there will be
music, a Folk Mass, theatre presen
tations an outdoor festival and informal
discussions. Colloquy Central. the Hetzcl
Union Building will be open all night, and
refreshments will be available.
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania Slate University
University Park, Pa., Friday Morning, May 23, 1969
By ROB McHUGH and RHONDA BLANK
Collegian Staff Writers.
A student was arrested yesterday afternoon
for his part in the lowering of the American flag
on Old Main lawn.
- - -
Paul Kupferman (graduate-physics-New York,
N.Y.) was charged with "malicious .mischief to
private property, that property being of The Penn
sylvania State University," according to one of the
arresting officers.
The complaint was sworn to by . Tames A.
Rhodes, of the Dean of Student Affairs staff. A
release issued through the Office of Public Infor
mation states, "The arrest was made at the request
of University officials."
Wells Keddie, advisor to Students for a Demo
cratic Society, later told The Daily Collegian that
warrants have been issued for four other students,
but they have not yet been served. He added he
had been told that the students would be notified
before being served with the warrants, so that
they may prepare legal defense and collect bail.
Agreed to Remain
Shortly after 5 p.m. Kupferman, who was
sitting on the lawn, was informed by Robert H.
Barnes of special security that there was a war
rant for his arrest. Kupferman agreed that he
would remain there for the warrant to be served.
While Barnes contacted State Police Lt. Wil
liam E. Kimmel, who was to serve the warrant,
Kupferman began walking across the lawn toward
the Hetzel Union Building. Kupferman was stopped
by one of the other State policemen and detained.
After a crowd of about 50 gathered, Kimmel
came over to serve the warrant. After Rhodes
had made identification, Kupferman was imme
diately handcuffed with his arms pulled behind
his back.
Shouts of 'Pig
While Kupferman was being led away, he was
informed of his rights and the charges against
him.. At this time, a large crowd followed them
shouting "pig" and "why don't you arrest all
of us."
One of the policemen, who was wearing a
casual sweater and a teeshirt, was spat upon by
a member of the crowd. The policemen had been
in the area unnoticed until they assisted in the
arrest.
Kupferman was taken to a car parked behind
Old Main. Several members of the crowd sat in
front of the cars blocking its movement, while
others stood around, shouting obscenities to the
arresting officers.
One girl duped a s flag reading "Don't tread
on me!" across the windshield of the car. She was
pushed away by an official.
Crowd Warned
Several of the officials attempted to persuade
the crowd to leave. Kimmel warned the crowd,
"What you're getting into is interference with the
vice of the process of law."
He also told the crowd, "You're not doing that
in there (Kupferman) any favor now."
When asked by one of the students why Kup
•man was the only one arrested, KiiiirrieT - replied,
le was the only one that broke the lock on the
igpole."
Kupferman was taken to the State College
tnicipal Building, where he waited with officials
USG Hits
Condemns
By PAT DYBLIS
and DENISE BOWMAN
Collegian Staff Writers
Undergraduate Student
;overnment President Ted
hompson yesterday released
statement rejecting the Ad
linistration's lack of response
the raising and lowering of
ie flag on the Old Main
,wn.
Thompson told Congress
last night that the statement
was prepared before the ar
rest yesterday of Paul Kup
ferman (graduate-p h y sic s-
New York) who allegedly
in The lobby for the arrival of Justice of the Peace
William P. Bell.
While Kupferman was being held inside, a
crowd of about 150 students gathered in front of
the building. Several students were' cheered by
the crowd when they lowered the American flag
flying in front of the building to half-mast.
A crowd of about 100 people had gathered at
2 p.m. on Old Main lawn for a scheduled rally to
protest the killing of a bystander at a May 15
demonstration at the University of California at
Berkeley. The rally was sponsored by SDS.
About 3 p.m.. Kupferman began to break the
lock on the flagpole with a crowbar. He was joined
by several other students. When one student in
the crowd shouted that Kupferman's action was
illegal, he replied, "You can go to hell with your
laws."
Jon Wineland. SDS co-chairman, told the
crowd. "We're lowering the flag to tell the people
what's happening" across the country and espe
cially in Berkeley and "to commemorate the death
of a brother."
Many members of the crowd protested the
lowering of the flag. Insults and obscenities were
shouted by members of both sides, and sex eral fist
fights occured in the crowd. The fistfights lasted
only a few minutes.
When students who had lowered the flag
shouted that the retaliatory action being taken by
the other students was "just as illegal as ours,"
Barnes replied, "I know, but take a vote."
After some of the scuffling. a University offi
cial asked Wineland to poll the crowd as,to wheth
er the flag should stay at half mast Q r be raised
to full mast. Wineland counted "about 75" for
re-raising the flag and "something over 100"
against the suggestion. The vote was loudly con
tested by others in the crowd.
At one point, Barnes stepped up on the base
of the flagpole, where he remained for a short
time. Immediately after he stepped down. another
series of fistfights broke out and students at
tempted to reach the flagpole and re-raise the flag.
Several students asked officials why they had
not interferred when black students, Feb. 21
lowered the flag to commemorate the death of
Malcolm X.
Ted Thompson, University Student Govern
ment president, and Don Shall, originator of the
Colloquy program for Penn State, both attempted
to calm down the crowd.
Shall said those students who had lowered the
flag were "willing to be accountable" for :heir
action and called the retaliation of the other stu
dents "vigilante action."
At that time, Keddie told the crowd that
Barnes had said that if the flag were raised, rep
resentatives could go into Old Main to discuss with
Administration officials the possibility of the Uni
versity's lowering the flag.
Se'eral students who favored lowering the
flag had earlier demanded that the Administra
tion lake a position on the events taking place at
Berkeley. Barry Stein, unsuccessful candidate for
the USG presidency, and two other students left
broke the lock at the base of
the flagpole.
The statement reads
"The Undergraduate Stu
dent Government will not ac
cept the non-communicative
position that the University
Administration appears to be
giving to the students. We do
not feel that the policy that
it has taken is conducive to
improving understanding be
tween the Administration and
students. The raising and
lowering of the flag, symbolic
though it may be, does not
warrant emotion dictating
reason. The Undergraduate
Student Government will
work with the sympathetic
students of the Berkeley
cause and the Governor of our
State to design a more ap
propriate procedure in the
raising and lowering of the
flag in Pennsylvania.
We urge the University Ad
ministration to be more cog
nizant of those factors that
can contribute to crisis."
Congress- unanimously
passed a resolution last night
condemning the Berkeley ad
Successful Unlocking for Astronauts;
Search Moon Surface for Landing Site
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) After keeping the
world in suspense for 40 minutes, two moon-orbiting Apollo
10 astronauts successfully undocked a fragile lunar landing
machine from their command ship today and prepared to
fly it on a daring descent to within 50,000 feet of the sur•
face.
. .
The first word on the successful separation came from
Navy Cmdr. Eugene A. Cernan in the lunar module. or
LEM, with Air Force Co. Thomas P. Stafford.
"We read you ioud and clear," Cernan radioed to the
ground. "We're about 30 to 40 feet away from Charlie
Brown and station keeping."
"Very good. Snoopy," a relieved mission control com
mentator replied.
Charlie Brown and Snoopy are the radio call names for
the two craft during the eight-hour separation in which
Stafford and Cernan were to swoop twice to within 9.3
miles of the Sea of Tranquility to scout a landing site where
two Americans hope to land in two months.
Clear evidence of the undocking came just seconds later
when a live color television picture of the spidery LEM was
flashed more than a quarter-million miles to earth.
The camera was pointed out the window of the command
ship, manned alone by Navy Cmdr. John W. Young.
The odd-looking, fragile landing-craft rotated slowly with
sunlight reflecting off its aluminum-coated sides.
The two ships flew in close formation several minutes
while Stafford and Cullen checked all systems. They flew
circles in a sort of stately orbital ballet.
The astronauts did not want to commit themselves to
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Commemoration of Death
Poll of Crowd
'Vigilante Action
Old Main Stand;
Berkeley Violence
ministration of the University
of California and the Berke
ley police departmen'.
"The shock over the death
of one student and the injury
of numerous Berkeley area
community members has ex
tended to the members of
USG," the resolution states.
It adds that the action of
California authorities "can'
only be taken as the worst
sort of oppression."
The resolution, presented
by Mike Alexander, former
University Union Board presi
dent, calls for the University
Administration to make
known to USG "its position
on the Berkeley disturbances
and to make known any in
formation concerning these
same problems gathered by
administrative sources."
The resolution also urges
faculty members to allot a
portion of class time to dis
cuss the Berkeley issue "in an
attempt to prevent similar ac
tions at Penn State."
"USG expresses its disap
proval of the handling of stu
dent reaction at University
Live TV Picture
Orbital Ballet
a request Wednesday with Vice President for
Resident Instruction Paul M. Althouse that a state
ment be released.
The flag was not raised. but Stein. Wineland
and Scott Gibbs. the other SDS co-chairman, en
tered the building and met with Charles L. Lewis,
vice president for student affairs and Raymond 0.
Murphy, dean of student affairs. Lewis told the
students. "We've announced the flag is to fly at
full staff in compliance with the policy of the
University.
Lewis added that "a decision has been reached
not to have the flag lowered at this time," but
that he couldn't "spell out the people" who made
the decision.
About 4 p.m. more scuffling took place and
students from both sides took possession of the
flagropes. For about 10 minutes. a tug-of-war took
place on the ropes until two students cut or burned
one end of the rope. The flag was then raised to
full staff.
The Dat y Collegian later learned that the
students who broke the rope were SDS members
attempting to keep the flag at half mast, but they
cut the wrong side of the line
After the flag Was again at full staff, Stein
said. "They prove once again that violence wins
out."
Just before 5 p.m., students returned to Old
Main and received the requested statement from
University President Eric A. Walker.
The statement said: "It is inappropriate for
me to respond to events at Berkeley except to say
that loss of life is always regrettable, regardless
of the circumstances."
Stein read the statement and added, "I can't
comment on the emphasis he (Walker) made on
this, because he wouldn't respond to us verbally."
At that time, most" Of' the crowd began to
leave. The arrest of Kupferman took place a few
minutes later.
Kupferman was arraigned before Justice of
the Peace Bell and was released on 550 bail, which
was paid by an unidentified man. Outside Bell's
office, a collection was taken for bail for the
students who have not yet been served with war
rants. Nearly S5O was collected.
A statement released last night by SDS on
yesterdays events says: "The flag was lowered in
solidari'y with the students of Berkeley and in
mourning for the deaths of James Rector (in
Berkeley). Manuel Ramos (in Chicago) and a
14-year-old black (in Newark)—all at the 1-. , sr.ds
of the police. These .killings were done' by the
legal representatives of this society. The shootings,
gasings and bayonetings were also carried out
quite legally. The lowering of the flag was not
legal. The building of the People's Park in Berke
ley was not legal.
'Legalized Oppression'
"We are dealing with a system of legalized
oppression. It is this realization which led Ralph
Nader in the Colloquy keynote address to say:
'Students today are confronted with an illegal
system.' The students who lowered the flag were
challenging that system with their minds and
with their bodies. They did not seek confrontation
with other students, but confrontation with that
'illegal system.'"
Park to the events at Berke
ley." the resolution states. "It
is the sentiment of this body
that once again the Admini
stration has stood aloof from
a serious problem affecting
the University community
until pressures have built up
within the student body lead
ing to impetuous action
which in turn has led to the
use of police power by the
Administration."
The resolution recommends
that the principle of prior
consultation be invoked in
matters of student unrest "so
that USG LS consulted before
administrative action is
taken."
Thompson withdrew a bill
co-sponsored by him which
was to "charge USG with the
responsibility for showing a
positive protest against the
Vietnamese war" by assess
ing $lO from each congress
man who votes for the bill
to be used to purchase food
for distribution to poverty
stricken families in Appala
chia.
USG also passed a bill
make the hazardous close-approach to the survace until
they were certain everything was working.
The LEM was built only to operate in airless space and
on the moon and could not get the two pilots back to earth.
The separation of the two space vehicles. 69 miles above
the moon, occurred at 3:11 p.m. EDT as the three Apollo 10
astronauts orbited behind the lunar backside, out of radio
contact with the ground.
Before the combined vehicles zipped out of radio range 40
minutes earlier, mission control noted the docking collar in
terface between the command and lunar modules had slip
ped 3.5 degrees. It advised the astronauts not to undock if
the slippage increased to six degrees.
Separate Entities
Mission control officials held their breath until the two
vehicles reappeared from behind the moon as two separate
entities on tracking charts.
The trouble apparently lay with a docking ring on the
command ship which has latches to grip a similar
mechanism on the LEM. If the two rings are misaligned by
more than six degrees. there is a possibility that the
latches would be damaged during separation, preventing a
redocking.
Pressure Difficulty
An official of North American Rockwell, builder of the
command ship, said the trouble could be connected with a f.€
situation earlier today when Stafford and Cernan had dif
ficulty venting oxygen pressure from the connecting tunnel. ,
He said the corrective procedure involving lowering the
pressure in the LEM cabin might have caused the
misalignment.
Earlier, the astronauts had overcome a problem relieving
pressure from a three-foot tunnel connecting the command
lunar modules.
t`'
Emotionalism Leads
to Confrontation
-see page 2
Seven Cents
o=tM=l
Released on Bail
which will transfer certain
USG social activities to the
University Union Board.
The bill transferred spon
sorship of Spring Week, Cine
ma X, Model United Nations,
College Bowl and Spring
Arts Festival to the UUB ef
fective Fall Term 1969. In
ad ditio n, sponsorship of
Homecoming will be trans
ferred to the UUB effective
Fall Term 1970.
The bill states that revenue
from Spring Week will, as in
the past, be transferred to the
USG Scholarship Fund.
The bill, which is similar
in intent to a bill defeated at
last week's meeting, states
that "any time following the
Spring Week activities of
1970 and prior to Homecom
ing of 1970, the USG Con
gress may, by a majority vote,
decide to negate the trans
fer of sponsorship of this
bill."
Congress defeated another
bill which was to "provide a
monetary sum as an incentive
and reimbursement to USG
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