Tuesday MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY STATE STATE NEWS East Tuesday, April 29, 1969 Vol. 61 Number 167 Lansing, Michigan BSA holds Wilson cafeteria; claims harassment of blacks of this University cannot control their of grievances at a meeting with Tran¬ Only one incident at the rally resem¬ By JIM SYLVESTER racist employes who are in positions of tham and the South Complex hall su- bled a physical confrontation. When a management, black students will do their £tate News photographer continued to take DENISE FORTNER State News Staff Writers job for them. " the statement said pictures despite demands to stop, sev¬ The students plan to occupy the cafe eral black students forced him against Over 100 black students shut down Wil¬ teria until Thursday, when they will hold a wall and took the roll of film from son Hall cafeteria Monday to protest the an open forum with Acting-President BSA today announced that an open Pis camera. Later a black spokesman alleged harassment of three full-time Walter Adams session will be held in Wilson cafeter¬ said the film would be returned. ^lack employes. A spokesman for BSA listed three ia at 3 p.m. to discuss BSA demands Approximately 200 white students filed r Black Students' Alliance (BSA) said and grievances and to outline its rea¬ grievances which the alliance wants rec¬ into the Wilson Kiva to direct questions the three employes walked off their jobs for the sit-in. tified. First . that the two food service sons concerning the sit-in to Acting Presi¬ because of comments of a racist na¬ ture managers be fired. Also, that the Uni¬ dent Adams. Adams answered student by Joseph Trantham. food service versity employ more black full-time help questions in 30 minute session. manager of Wilson, and Jennie Miller, asst. food service manager and. finally, that a worker who quit be¬ Complex residence halls, said the former employes seemed to indicate that .thoy Sam a Riddle. South Complex BSA rep¬ Kitchen cause of harassment be rehired to a posi resentative addressing the crowd, said, Shortly before % p.m.. the black stu¬ tion of responsibility thought the meeting was generally'pro¬ Acting President Walter Adams discusses the grievances broug "If I were to look at it (the sit-in) from dents took over the cafeteria and re¬ ductive and the outcome of the meeting to him by black students Monday as they occupied the cafeter Prior to the sit-in. the three black non- a white person's aspect I would say. What fused to allow dinner to be served. "If was in no way influenced by the black student employes who walked off their of Wilson Hall. BSA spokesmen scheduled u teach-in in tl sit-in which occurred after the meeting the hell are those niggers doing in our those who rule or govern the operations cafeteria to last until Thursday when a University hearing wi Wilson cafeteria jobs, presented a list cafeteria." be held to consider the grievances. "Although the meeting was -flot a de¬ (please turn to page 7) cision-making meeting, it was de¬ cided that the employers and employes Board member would continue to get together and work out their grievances," North said. Neither Trantham nor Mrs Miller could ELECTION PENDING be reached for comment Monday night. with violation of French presiden Several administrators met in the caf¬ eteria with the black students to dis¬ cuss solutions to the problem Besides it could not sit in judgment because Adams. Eldon R. Nonnamaker associ¬ it was not 100 per cent unbiased ate dean of students. Donald Adams, di¬ and therefore asked tor a hearing be he rector of residence hall programs and Lyle A newly elected member of the ASMSU Board has been asked to appear before the All-University Student Judiciary fore the AUSJ. Klinsky lation of is Article also charged 1.4 of the with Freedom vio¬ Thorburn sat mands. with the monger of residence halls, .udents to hear their de¬ to Senate secretariat cleared personal papers and automatically moved Poher, as the "•>'■!> (AUSJ) tonight to answer charges of Report. Article 2d.3 of the ASMSU Black faculty meftibers and adminis¬ PARIS i APi Alain Poher, an Election Procedures and Article 15 of trators were also present on behalf of the property out of their desks and vacated ate president, into France's No. I job. voting irregularities in the April 9 jnknown outside France, received the the MSU Student Handbook the offices. Trucks rolled out Poher told newsmen that a Cabiue ASMSU elections. students Robert L. Green, associate pro¬ cowers of the presidency of Charles through I know that I am innocent and that fessor of educational psychology and asst. the graveled courtyard with De Gaulle's meeting would be called aftei Thursda' Gary Klinsky, general member- le Gaulle's fifth Republic without cere- it will take tomorrow night to prove director of the Center for Urban Affairs, personal possessions, including a great to set the date tot the election i in at-large. has been accused of violat¬ "nony Monday, but his only major task ing his student duties as stated in it. Klinsky said Monday afternoon said. This is the culmination of a ser¬ s to set up a presidential election. variety of gifts that he had collected president. June I. June 8 and June Steve Bensko and Tom Verburg. who ies of incidents. I from chiefs of s|ate on official visits. have been mentioned as possible da it Article 1.2 of the Academic Freedom wholeheartedly sup¬ De Gaulle remained behind the green will defend Klinsky at tonight's heal¬ When Poher got to the Palace in the for the two rounds of voting. Report "to refrain from interference port the shut down. The two managers iron gates of his country estate at ing, said that they will ask for a dis¬ should be fired. I am willing to stake afternoon, the household staff was on In a brief radio-television «ii«ii with those rights of others which are Uolombey-les-Deux-Eglises in eastern missal of the trial because there have duty, plus a few secretaries, a mili¬ Poher did not mention De Caulle e> equally essential to the purposes and my job and reputation on this demand." France, been no specific allegations leveled White Wilson Hall students were served wti^e the tolling of the church tary aide and a protocol representat¬ he said on the evening of this den.- processes of the University." •lock at noon marked the end of his ive to show the interim president around lon which I regret. 1 wish tnst of Pete Ellsworth, past chairman of against Klinsky in Case. Wonders and Holden halls while 10 years of rule "According to a statement formerly a make-shift meal was prepared for the the deserted premises. to expiess the respectful -.eiitm, ,• ASMSU and a member of the ASMSU Noon was the hour De Gaulle himself Election Review Board, said. Gener¬ made by the Student Faculty Judiciary. black students in Wilson all those for whom the present du had selected for leaving France "to Premier Maurice Couve de Murville Articles 1.2 and 1.4 of the Freedom A BSA spokesman said that from now till to ottei ally speaking, we are charging Klinsky -its destiny." arrived a short time later for a 45- if the pa with tampering with the voting at one Report are preambles. Verburg said. until Thursday they would conduct a minute talk with Poher. and one cannot be charged with violat¬ teach-in and discuss among themselves g His resignation-the result of a sharp of the polling places. defeat in referendum calling toi de¬ The a transfer of powei to Poher Sandy Fenster. chairman of the review ing them. problems related to blacks on this jnd centralization of power and Senate ref¬ was accomplished with a complete ab¬ board, said that the board thought that (please turn 10 page 7) other campuses. orm-stirred up all kinds ot guessing in ot formality sence A letter from the Europe diid uouiid ihe world. Gold Constitutional council advising him th.it ■led c a vacancy in the presidency existed. flurry of trading. The French franc- Letters reveal trustee rift hit Paris, some new felt lows without De Gaulle about and underscoring the gold new highs in the uncertainty French economy VIETNAM PROTESTERS The British looked with renewed hopes over successor to May at the European Common Market. The West Germans and others foresaw the possibility of a more flexible France Supreme Cou By STEVE WATERBLRY State News Staff Writer Huff replied to Stevens in a letter dated March 23 that. 1 find myself at vai- officials of the Democratic State Central Committee and European political unity. De Gaulle kept Britain out of the Common Market and sought tor France the leading role on draft delin Two Democratic trustees clashed Mon¬ Stevens added that the matter should WASHINGTON claims that ihe ui. lance with this position I think it is the among European nations Israelis ex¬ AIM The be placed the agenda of the Demo¬ ulatiouM ait- being day over the procedure to be used in the duty of a chairman to endeavor to achieve on pressed a hope for a change in what Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide selection of a new MSU vice president unity among members of the board. cratic State Central Committee. they regarded as De Gaulle s pro-Arab whether draft boaids can order pan. >M students wt stripped »t college detei ments t »/««- trip to Drake meet it would seem appropriate to me that (ill) hi lln- tlui h cloinl i,l l itiiih rhey II ; five Democratic trustees seek the ad¬ vice and counsel of Democratic Party poll In s. By GARY WALKOWICZ At Selective Seivite headquarters C oi. I (lams. ft noted political leaders of the MSU Democratic Academic David Omei the and L) deputv director, Resources Council (DARC) and the lead¬ sage, viewed I In- i est# nation said the action welcome because DAVE WEST is ership of the Democratic State Central State News Sports Writers of ( hiirIt's de I.at,lie us i, boon the office feels federal courts h^ve Committee in filling this post created an unfortunate situation by giv¬ Does an athletic coach have the right lo tmericuu clticttlion. Stevens listed several candidates for the to dictate standards of appearance for " I ing conflicting rulings on the regula office who were also Democrats, and hinkinti consii m il i e/y. " it lit i his athletes? expect concluded ilimns imisetl. "tineinuii nm olVe MSU Track Coach Fran Dittrich says Oliiei t In¬ finally and frankly, afici experienc¬ versifies in sear, It of a pii Milem MSU track star Bill Wehrwein says no said the nards nave not acted ing Ihe agony of the tne Republican should nun e ,pn,kl\ lo piofu trustees, Thompson and Mei i imaa, worked The result of this disagreement was that against ipr.nenls of the wai generally, hand in hand with former MSU Vice Wehrwein, MSU's record-holding track from litis ctilttclysmn event, but have restricted use of the regu¬ President May I, tor one. couldn't star, was left behind when the Spartan (.en. de (.,tulle ts clearly a in mil lations io those who give up their cards care less whether they agree, disagree or track team competed in the Drake Relays and don t try to reclaim them or other¬ mn oil a men, with utile mlmtnis- indeed last weekend. wise change then minds violently oppose our choice of a Irulive experience mid mi un¬ president, an acting president, a vice pres¬ Dittrich said he w< i:ld not let his star ident for business and finance or the runner < oinpete in lit* i ■ t .*»« aus< Wehr- impeachable military eombul POP TICKETS creation and filling of any positions that we w.,n ret.,--dtoBel I'i.h. i iv.i re, ord. tickets Mm r ndav s ASMSl Pop En- might create by using our five votes to We MSU i have an image to uphold "lo those „lto limy ob/e, t lo lei lainment concert by the First Edition amend the bylaws. bc.au e we ire n< wn all over t io U S Ins candidacy because of age, and the Classics IV will be on sale this Before May s retirement last winter Dittrich said. be they utilised thai he week at Campbell's Suburban Shop, their Stevens had accused him of trying to is im¬ van in front of Be-.sev Hall, Marshall He (Wehrweini didn't comply with 'Monsieur Adams --I am on my rig an election-eve trap for Democratic reg¬ way!" mortal. " Music and the I nion trustees in a complicated deal involving ulations and he didn't go." Tickets are $2 and $3. the leasing of cars at reduced rates. (please turn iopage it EDITORIAL G.I. WOICHIHOSKY Added voices A new organization in Friday's rally at the Admin- campus sponsorship of the rally are JPi in support of apath Due to an overwhelming lack of interest, Ten Universities and has never once s . istration Bldg.. sponsored by probably complex, but its "dis¬ the local chapter of the Students for Apathy nor attended a football game. ASMSU. Young Socialist Al- like" ' for the capitalist sys¬ Wombat is the heroic figure of the apa¬ will hold its second annual meeting this 1 liance (YSA). and the New tem and resistance to work week or next week in the MSU experimen thetic- movement in this country. Having within the committee format tal sheep research barns. never voted in a national, state or local University Conference (NUC) The last meeting of the mid-Michigan election, he has kept his personal record might be the beginning of a help to define its motives. chapter held on the free of opinions, commitments and conten- loading dock of the new dialogue on campus. However. SDS's half-hearted A & P was a total success when 40.000 Centered around the ROTC attitude might instead help to students, including 5,000 from Lansing Having remained completely neutral on Community College, did not show up. every issue of any importance, he was debate, several groups, former¬ attract many to ASMSU's stance nicknamed on ROTC who otherwise would During that meeting the rank and file of "wishy-washy Wombat" by his ly primarily preoccupied with the non-organization voted total abstention closest friends, his mother and his < drinking matches, have joined have stayed away if SDS joined in the non-election of officers. Schlep the other groups. The Students for Apathy is a non-regis¬ Wombat formed the non-organization in into voice their beliefs. tered non-organization and is not recog 1959 (which Schlep maintains is one of the It is a new vitality which At present. ASMSU is stand¬ most worthless years nized by the University. in American history). can be invaluable to the aca¬ ing behind Acting President Members need not register if they do not That summer Wombat and Schlep organ¬ Adams' formation of two feel like it and attendance is not necessary. ized movement demic community. com¬ a (contrary to his nature) A national apathetic convention might be to have the year abolished. Not everyone is approaching mittees to look into the place held Memorial Day in Clement. N.D.. the A national referendum to delete 1959 or the debate with equal hones¬ ROTC has on campus-if it last resting place of G. J. Wombat, the most have it rewritten by Truman Capote re- ty-such as the Committee of has a place at all. But if the apathetic student in collegiate history ceived the following votes: 3 Yes. 0 No, 19 Wombat is still very much alive, though tor Richard Nixon, and 180 million 1 39 which posts its vitriolic, committees should deliberate or so Clement. N.D., was the last place he stop¬ not voting. but conservative at a slow pace and/or decide flyers on var- ped to rest, and he hasn't moved since. This spurred Wombat to form the Stu¬ < ious surfaces around campus- that, after all. ROTC should "I'm sorry, but the dean is already being "I just don't care to move," Wombat dents for Apathy to gather all the apa¬ but remain as before. ASMSU might held hostage by another group said. thetic into one huge disinterested group." we hope even they will . . . Wombat. Hamtramck graduate student in Reached in Clement while resting. Wom¬ soon join in openly and ra¬ be provoked into action. Perhaps if you were tc make an appointment!' welding, has received degrees from 17 Big bat did not care to comment on anything. tionally. Until the committees report. ASMSU. with its co-spon¬ anti-ROTC rallies would be a sorship of the rally, has put its foot in the right direction. welcome sight on this campus. With other universities across OUR READERS' MIND This augurs much for an ac¬ the country in turmoil due to de¬ tive Fifth Session and hope¬ mands that ROTC be abolished, fully increased student in¬ forums, such as the one which Wayne Morse for U' President volvement along with it. occurred last week, could pro¬ A high point at the rally vide an atmosphere of intelli¬ was Tom Samet's concise state¬ gent debate. ment calling for an end to It is now up to the Commit¬ To Dale E. U.S. presidents in nation-wide crises), a Hathaway, chairman All- ROTC on the campus. This vigilant conservationist and civil-libertar¬ tee of 39 whether it wants to University Committee of Search ajjti-^"- statement from Samet. though lection: -— ian. a sponsor (as chairman of the edu¬ remain undercover and puerile cation subcommittee) of major education chairman of ASMSU. was spo¬ in the eyes of the community bills, and a foreign affairs expert (long¬ ken for himself, and he spoke time chairman of the subcommittee for or whether the time to enter as a student leader deeply con- La tin-American affairs) whose indepen¬ into a meaningful dialogue, dent, sometimes unpopular, views have erned about MSU issues. without hypocritical tactics, repeatedly been borne out by later history. Undoubtedly. ASMSU, SQS. The Honorable Wayne Morse, J.D., has come. LL.D, Former U.S. senator from Oregon. -In YSA. and some faculty mem¬ Wayne Morse, MSU would have a bers will have their hands full president of unquestionable academic cre¬ We would welcome a verbal In Wayne Morse, MSU would have as dentials. as professor and dean (for 24 rounding-up more supporters debacle, within the bounds of president a world figure, a man whose years) of the University of Oregon Law than the 150-odd individuals wisdom, vigor, integrity, and dedication School. rational discussion, on this cam¬ to the general good are a matter of un¬ who attended the last rally. pus. questionable public record-a record as a In Wayne Morse, MSU would have a SDS's reasons for its lack of -The Editors labor arbitrator (called upon by several president whose record as a civil liber¬ tarian and watchdog of the military- industrial complex would quiet fears of racial bias and control by "The Estab¬ Young adults controlled To the Editor: victims of the new open house pol lishment," and whose proven fairness and DICK GREGORY negotiating powers would assure all sides, To East Lansing Management Co.: icy But I find it hard to swallow the Re "OPEN HOUSES ARE AN INVAS¬ line about many mlulis are finding ap always, of being fully, intelligently, and artment living. ION OF YOUR PRIVACY" etc : . . " blah blah blah. U responsively heard. you are going to play ihai little game ther after reading your advertisement it seemed This nomination is on the initiative of the to me that you were asking for it so bad you'd better stop throwing "adults" intc undersigned alone. luxury" apartments with plastic A I feel honor-bound to dish it out. I won't script writer's dream crummy insult vou be pretending to believe that chairs and paper-thin walls (don't try anc you're really concerned about the pathetic deny ilwi onei. candy machines in basement and bunks in the bedrooms jus) who ha: atehed the current like in the Ulgh> ilormihtries; in UgK just to the long hours and hard labor of jurors spellbound with interest, amuse¬ crop television of commercials recognizes that opportunities have opened up some the cotton fields, they were forced to mas¬ ment and bewilderment. At one point in ROTC credit is justifiable buildings you put up in a month, you ask these adults to pav $50-$75 a i..onth ter a new trade-breaking horses and his summary. Hodges cried out. "What! To the Editor: for HALF A BEDROOM! for black folks. And there have even been handling long-horns. Me'.' The decendarit of old grandees of check into accounts of how George Wash¬ This latter is some breakthroughs in regular TV series All-black cattle in As a 1966 graduate of MSU and the ROTC purely rhetorical because crews were common Spain, the owner of a land grant embracing ington personally handled the mutinous obviously you don't have trouble renting We now have our own TV Western featur¬ program, I'd like to say that I was extreme¬ Texas, and some free blacks owned ranch¬ millions of acres, the owner of gold mines Jersey Line in January 1781. Interesting: ing a black cowboy, though it might be bet¬ es even before the Civil War. Aaron Ash- and villages and town situated that grant ly happy to have the chance to take ROTC anyway--I've noticed most places around on and subsequently serve for two years in Burton J. Stanley here don't: that's why I ve always beer ter not to call him 'boy The name of the worth was a black ranch-owner who had of which I am sole owner, to steal a mis¬ show is I hi- ihiicusis. and you can tell the U.S. Army. For me, the military serv¬ Ludington treated so well by East Lansing real- 2.500 head of cattle and employed a white erable. miserly lot of old cows? Why. the by the name that it features "us." I under¬ ice was a fulfilling experience and educa¬ tors-and WE'RE the dummies: WE fill stand next season there will be another schoolmaster to teach his children. Now there is material for a series to rival idea is absurd. No. gentleman, I think too much of the race of men from which tional in itself. My country up your plastic apartments every year black cowbov. so that this black I feel that credit is justifiable for ROTC To the Editor: and never get smart enough to have a cowboy Honimza. with Ossie Davis as the ranch- I sprang, to disgrace their n will have someone to kill courses as long as it is granted for such I am neither a radical or a reactionary - rent strike like they did in Ann Arbor. owner and Hugh O'Brien teaching sons Later courses as physical education (dancing, I am an American. As an American, a So I guess you've got a pretty good thing Sometimes the current black cowboy Clarence Williams and Rosie Grier in the summation. Hodges por¬ proud does get to kill someone. But it poses such trayed himself as a poor but honest cow¬ paddle ball, etc.). bookkeeping, account¬ American, I readily and heartily support going. ing and a few others. Courses of this na¬ the institutions that have made our coun¬ When a young adult" spends a few a problem for the scriptwriters. They And in the favorite location of TV West¬ boy. being harrassed and falsely accused have to work so hard dirtying up" a white by personal enemies. The whole display ture don't seem to provoke much more try what it is; the most powerful and glor¬ years in a place where everyone on oi erns. Dodge City, there was a much more ious cowboy so that the viewing audience will was too much for the jury, and it ac¬ thought or intellectual curiosity than you on earth. campus or in the vicinity recognizes him colorful figure than Matt Dillon, Bat Mas- It is the secondary institution that lends as a student and treats him accordingly not resent the black cowboy killing him. terson or Wvatt Earp His name was Ben quitted Hodges say ROTC lacks. The military leader including squad, sec¬ support to all the others. One of these is while patronizing!' '-ailing him an "adult," Some time back I did see the black cow¬ Hodges, born of a black father and a Mexi¬ A few tion and fireteam leaders (often low ROTC. I detest war as an unnecessary evil, he begins to realize that in his environ¬ boy kill a white bad guy. The white cat can mother. Ben Hodges was undoubtedly days later the missing cows came or home, leaving tracks which told the whole ranking enlisted personnel) is constantly but as long as war exists we must support ment he is not c