STATE NEWS Sunday morning November 16, 1969 Vol. 62 Number 90 East Lansing, Michigan Sunday Violence explodes D.C. peace effort Police Chief Jerry Wilson estimated at It is unknown whether any MSU student least 250,000 persons marched down was a participant or victim of the resulting Pennsylvania Avenue or streamed along the violence of the afternoon's and evening's Mall to the Washington Monument peace activities. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Peaceful legions paraded their protest against the Vietnam rally. Fred Halstead, chief of the marshals As large numbers of police officers filed war past the guarded headquarters of into a side door of the labor building, an American government Saturday. Then, at assigned by the New Mobilization Committee to ward off trouble during the estimate; half-million demonstrators moved ,dusk, a volley of rocks and bottles from a down the streets to the Dept. of Justice to splinter group of militant demonstrators demonstration, estimated the crowd at more than 300,000. protest the Chicago trial, the war and the brought a burst of tear gas from police at New York 21. Police permitted the the Dept. of Justice. But as the monument rally ended, more militant factions did their thing. demonstrators to march around the block The trouble flared five blocks from a circling the Justice Bldg. Moving down Constitution Avenue massive antiwar rally -- and even as it shortly after 3 p.m. demonstrators first Demonstrators made one fast and loud happened, the throng there was singing the gathered at the Dept. of Labor in support finale of its demonstration, a rock song, of the G.E. strike. MSU-SDS trip around the building and were just was present "Let the Sun Shine In." and participating. (please turn to page 7) O Militants clash at embassy; contrast to death march By LARRY LEE violence and praised police for the further disperse each group. restrained response. The demonstrators tried throughout the MARILYN PATTERSON Cold weather in the capital, with night to regroup at Dupont circle. State News Staff Writer^ temperatures dropping to the 20's detered However, police had so saturated the area WASHINGTON, D.C.--A confrontation many demonstrators from gathering. with tear gas that any approach to it was between violent SDS factions and The demonstrators, members of the Washington police Friday night shattered Youth International Party, Weatherman, Meanwhile the almost religious march the solemn atmosphere of the 40-hour Mad Dog, Crazies, Youth Against Facism, against death continued without incident Petition for march against death here that began at and SDS chapters met at DuPont Circle, eight blocks away. 6 p.m. Thursday some four blocks from the South A policeman guarding the smashed store Demonstrators march along Pennsylvani Avenue i Saturday In an anti* - protest, reflecting the Fourteen minutes after the 2,500 Vietnamese embassy. tide of American opinion favoring (please turn to page 7) peace. AP Wir chanting demonstrators began an They chanted various slogans ("Power to unauthorized march to the South the people" and "Revolution, one more Vietnamese embassy, around 7:45 p.m. war," among others) for 45 minutes before Friday, they had provoked police use of beginning the march. Leading members of Apollo adjusts,heads for tear gas. the march began to run towards a police In subsequent hit-and-run attacks in the line formed one-half block from the surrounding area, windows in nearly 100 stores and businesses were cars and were broken. Also hit police vehicles. Seven police and 22 demonstrators were embassy. Some leaders dropped out of the march a block from the police line, according to an Associated Press reporter. After rocks and SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - More It tightened their aim on the moon, Saturday, and slept for more than 10 at 6:02 moon a.m. Wednesday and 12:32 a.m. reported injured in the five hour battle. bottles were thrown by the demonstrators, than halfway to target, the Apollo 12 cutting the miss distance to just 69 miles hours. The long first day was programmed Thursday. Police had fair control of the area by 10 a fire cracker lobbed into the police line pilots gave their spaceship a rocket-kick from more than 800 miles. into the flight plan to adjust sleep periods Sun angles at the landing site prescribe p.m. and most of the demonstrators had appeared to trigger the tear-gassing. ahead Saturday, surrendering a safety But it also put them on a "no return" for the critical moonwalks of next week. that command pilot Conrad and lunar dispersed by 1 a.m. Saturday. The crowd turned and fled from the factor that guaranteed their return to earth course that will require rocket module pilot Bean do their exploring of power to By turning night into day, the Apollo 12 At least two churches in the immediate fumes and although police followed, only if trouble bars them from the moon. bring them home again. Their previous the moon's surface in the hours of pilots will be ready for a moon landing at wee area offered sanctuary and treatment for one case was noted where a person was Under the eye of their color television course would have brought them home 1:53 a.m. EST Wednesday, and moonwalks Wednesday and Thrusday. tear gas effects. struck with the riot sticks Charles Conrad Jr., automatically after a long loop around the camera, Richard F. Officials of the New Mobilization Police then broke up the crowd by Gordon Jr. and Alan L. Bean fired their moon. The new course, if not altered later Committee, coordinators of the weekend separating them into small groups down main rocket motor for 8.8 seconds at 6:15 by rocket firings, would carry them out moratorium activities, condemned the the various side streets and attempted to p.m. EST. into the solar system. But as much confidence in the as it spoke for the Apollo 12 engines, the new maneuver was also necessary if the Dow loses forc War protests astronauts are to land where they want to, support peace some on Storms. 200 miles south of the lunar equator the eastern shore of the Ocean of "The burn had a slight wobble," Conrad nopolm MIDLAND, (UPI)-Dow Chemical Co., compo When the latest contract was up for bids reported. often denounced for making napalm for about three weeks ago, it was won by That rocket firing puts them on a "no use in the Vietnam war, has lost the American Electric a subsidiary- of City across nation return" path to the moon, the first Apollo flight to make this adjustment. Other government contract for production of the jellied gasoline to American Electric Co. of Investment Corp., a New York-based holding firm. Dow was an unsuccessful By ASSOCIATED PRESS flights have relied on a free-return path Los Angeles, a Dow spokesman said bidder. which-if they didn't make any additional Saturday. The Dow spokesman said the firm has Thousands marched Saturday in San Francisco-the other focal pointy besides firings-would bring them automatically But the spokesman said Dow will bid on been the subject of protest for more than back to earth after passing around the future contracts. three years for making napalm There have Washington, for the second Vietnam backside of the been demonstrations at number of Dow moratorium and smaller demonstrations moon. Napalm is a highly flammable substance a dotted the country in a generally peaceful Ahead of them were some live color dropped in containers from planes. It is plants and sales offices, but picketing has antiwar protest. television transmissions back to earth and a sprayed over a wide area and everything it dropped off in the past year, he said. critical rocket firing. They awakened about sticks to burns. At the annual Dow stockholders meeting Protestors staged a seven-mile march 3:15 p.m. A Dow spokesman said the firm in May, clergy and laymen concerned through San Francisco under threatening about Vietnam (CALCAV) picketed the After a hectic 23-hour day Friday, the completed work on its most recent skies. Police in San Francisco said about astronauts finally retired at 5 a.m. EST contract last May. (please turn to page 2) 30,000 marched there. Local groups in many sections of the country held antiwar demonstrations that ended at bus, rail or air terminals, where representatives headed for Washington or RIDE FOR PEACE San Francisco. There were also demonstrations of support for President Nixon's policy in Vietnam. Thirty families from Winnetka, 111., a Chicago suburb of 13,000, sponsored a Buses roll to peace rally flag-raising ceremony on the village green that drew 300. A motorist on the Merritt Michigan, Fredonia State College in New Although peace was their major Parkway in Connecticut said one in three York and MSU. objective, there were other reasons, too, About 440 students left MSU for for coming. drivers he passed had his headlights on in response to appeals for burning lights as a WASHINGTON, D.C. - Buses have had a Washington on 11 ASMSU-sponsored "I came to Washington because I think role in 'he freedom and peace movements sign of support for the administration. buses. ASMSU estimated 1,000 additional part of our greatness as a world power of America since the mid-1950's. Two Marine Corps veterans, carrying an MSU students drove to Washington by car. should be to admit that we are wrong in In 1955, Martin Luther King and his American flag and several signs, showed Riding a bus from East Lansing to Vietnam and thus that we should get out," followers boycotted the Montgomery, Ala. student said. their support with a 10-mile march through bus system in a year-long protest against Washington for the 12-hour, 600 mile ride one the New York City borough of Queens. regardless of the modern bus facilities "I came to Washington because I think the Jim Crow segregationalist laws. Protest sponsors estimated 30,000 offered, is a long and physically taxing trip. the demonstration will dispute a lot of people Thirteen years later, serving in a new left New York City for Washington Friday what President Nixon has said," another role, people from 38 states used buses to But morale and spirits seemed high on night and Saturday morning. About 2,000 travel to Chicago to protest the Vietnam the buses, as was typified on the bus the "There are two reasons that I'm going to people attended a Chicago Peace Council War during the 1968 Democratic National Snyder-Philips Coalition to End the War rally Friday night, then watched 750 of Washington: first I feel it is important to Convention. Now Committee set up. have numbers their number board buses for the nation's present, but more capital. And Friday, thousands of students Of the 80 people on the two importantly, I had a personal commitment from colleges and universities all over the Snyder-Philips buses, about 50 were from to come in order to see what effect the San A quiet somber group marched through Francisco. That demonstration too Drummer in country bused their way to Washington, Justin Morrill College. Faculty members, Washington march would have on me and centered on the war victims, with marchers D.C. for the Nov. 15 war moratorium. other MSU students and a few high school my ideas," a professor said. Drummers participating In the march for death that ended early A quick look at the rest stops along the students composed the rest of the group. One student emphasized that he came to carrying signs reading: "45,595 Americans, Saturday played a funeral death cadence and when they reached 693,492 Vietnamese killed in the war in way from Michigan to Washington, D.C. Regardless of their backgrounds, they all Washington because he "did not want to the symbolic coffins, lined up as the marchers filled by. found buses from such places as the had something in common; they came in Vietnam." fight in Vietnam, or get shot fighting for (please turn to page 2) State News photo by Jerry McAllister University of Wisconsin, University of peace to march for peace. (please turn to page 7) 2 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Sunday, November l(>. U.N. flag arrives "Lasting peace can only be achieved if the family of nations Nixon's Vietnam policy, "Nixon has left partial control at statement, the Council said: capital with the left or the right. In a uphill, the Maryland students managed to go twice as far as WASHINGTON, D.C. — MSU wor^ together to alleviate those in the hands of Hanoi by "The diversity of attitudes any other school twice Senior OCIllUI Class l/UUUCIl VI OSS Council memDer member conditions which can and often saying American withdrawal ™ iwiuicamai will ..... espoused by "the participants in quickly. " Jeff Cole presented Sen. Philip do lead to breaking of thepeace." depend on the level of violent," the marathon .precludes any such Beginning at 9:45 p.m. A. Hart, D-Mich., with a United "Because nations have not yet Hart said, "but why don't affiliation. We are, like everyone we Wednesday in snowstorm they Nations flag Thursday, 'earned to work together stop first, then ma; maybe the other else, weary of war and wanting ran 142 miles in less than 15 completing the "run for peace" peacefully should not discourage guy would quit too of peace. We believe we have hours. At one point, they from MSU to Washington, D.C. our attempts to reach that goal. Hart expressed concern over discovered ; meaningful way of averaged 14.6 miles per hour, Some 200 students from 13 Your run for peace is a timely where the students were staying manifesting our concern, L'hed 18 miles per hour at colleges carried the flag 743 and effective reminder of the during the weekend moratorium Gary Freestone, Bangor their peak point. In addition, miles to "prove how vehemently totaI challenge facing this nation activities and said he would offer who can take credit for the idea Frostburg students had only we believe in world peace " peace." in the quest for peace." 'n the peace. his home except his son and of the marathon run, said the hours notice to get toget together In accepting the flag at his Hart said he was not for daughter had brought so many project was not so anti-war , it their team of 12 runners from a Senate office, Hart said the hanging f gs in his office, but of their fellow students "from was pro-life, school of only 2,100 students. symbol of the U.N. banner was promised to keep this one the looks of the bodies on my "I'd like to think of it , Students from these colleges an excellent one. around because of its living room floor I'm not sure celebration of life," he said. participated in the run: MSU, "You picked a symbol which significance, there's room for me." Headed for the moratorium in University of Michigan, embodies the same frustration He also told the students he Sponsored by the MSU Senior Washington, Freestone and four University of Toledo, Bowling and hope for a goal that sign the Senate Class Council, the run for peace other MSU State College, you Heidelberg yourselves have." he said. resolution supporting President was not politically affiliated surprised to College, Ashland College, a Maryland highway at 7 a.m. College of Wooster, Malone Thursday. He reminded them of College, Steubenville College, the run lor peace. Wheeling College, Waynesburg International Hart calls Stopping the car and letting State College, West Virginia The MSU delegation, Gary Freestone, Torr Koernke, Jeff Cole and Steve marchers, DeCenzo the runner catch up, they saw he University, and Frostburg State present the United Nation's flag to Se i. Hart, D-Mich. at the end of the long carrying the blue U.N. flag. College. run for peace. State News Photo by Jerry McAllister Freestone, who ran the first lap in Michigan, jogged beside the Frostburg State College moratorium runner miles for a few outside of minutes Washington 50 By MARILYN PATTERSON 'If the South Vietnamese introducing himself and handing the runner a "run for button, peace" School aid bill State News Staff Writer troops are unsatisfactory our The car scheduled to pick up WASHINGTON. D.C. - Sen. Philip Hart. D-Mich., said Friday that it is "difficult to understand the mind of anyone who says "When maki hen • increased a a building down nrotestor protestor or sneerh speecn. tension and h..m« burns Spiro Agnew thprp tnere this fl a i« timetable made decision governments" g°vernments is Hart said that slows down. Our by two other ,f Nlxon put the the runner from Frostburg broke down at that point and he r ^ forced to ♦ run , V for three miles jnstead of thp planned 3 of a was . passed by Sen timetable up publicly or made it mjie. But that it is unpatriotic for any wrong. Frostburg State After the Senate passed the $1 Senate, Democrats, the House. known privately to Hanoi he to petition his government Hart said he College runners refused offered The parties themselves are was disappointed w7uld - criticized ould not criticize. help from MSU. Although Althc billion public-private school aid divided strongly over parochiaid Referring to the weekend by Nixon s Nov. 3 address on "I would only criticize if there bill Thursday night, critics raised Vietnam. forced to travel through and, in some cases, methods of voices in protest over the .o no timetable," he said. mountain Washington. Hart said it is a After Oct. 15 I thought he ranges one weekend. paying for any of the reform Hart said the President stretch three-and-half miles "Historians may view this as package bills. "overspoke" when he said he The Governor made a the beginning of the end of would not be affected by the the country. He is the patriot complete reversal in his Oct. 15 moratorium public education," said the who comes to Washington to statement of Wednesday that the publicly announce "Oct. 15 has helped him if. Michigan Association of School make that point." he said. "But in announcing his j assume he is most anxious to bring the war to a close.'' Napalm (continued from page 1) Boards. The Michigan Education Association said, "As far as aid legislature should stay in Lansing to work rather on than education reform recessing for two become violent. Nevertheless the war is not weeks. large part by Hanoi and Saigon." Nixon's war he said. to public education is meeting for the second year in a House Speaker William Ryan "It's everybody's war," he concerned, reform has become Showing Central Michigan row, protesting the firm's has said all along Milliken would s Most Complete Assortment of said. "Everyone is so free to 'status quo plus parochiaid." making of napalm. have to consent to CALCAV Milliken immediately issued a assign the responsibility to said in pamphlets PIPES Savanelli - G.B.D. *<*> - SK.' Comoys - Dunhill every body else. The undertaking that is paid for by every American considering taxpayer." i had manufacture of napalm by heard dropping the Dow statement saying he was "extremely pleased" with the "negotiations" package through. The Governor to was get quick to his However, he said the two say, "We're only in the Kaywoodie The Pipe - Dr. Plumbs Hart said the Oct 15 deliberately bidding high. Dow - victories wore "only the beginning stages of discussion." And all other advertised brands. moratorium and this weekend's denied this, however, But, unable to supress a huge Featuring imported Cigarettes From 35 Countries. activities are "definitely A Dow spokesman said napalm - -- be?™n'n^„ The Senate has taken a smile he added, "We're doing Showing Over 100 Brands - Tobavg). proper." amounted to less than one-half very well overall." Showing Over 100 Brands-Cigars. . However, he said he did not of a per cent of its total sales. significant step," he said. know what effect they would The contract to American of us Democrats " Republicans have and have. a long way to Round up Electric worth about - MAC'S was $10 North "I guess you'll have to wait million, The proposed repeal of the Washington until history- decides if it is Herbert D. Dean, president of the effective," he said. "I hope it Dow' and Carl E- Gerstacker, property tax credit (continued from j - 1) ' Board Chairman, said then that income tax that also js» Dow actually was losing money Senate has been 1 estimated to An was unusual kind sponsored by a group in of protest Cold, but m and that publicity bring some $116 million in Demonstrators waiting for 1 nof-atorium march about protests hurt the firm. But additional revenues into the Pennsylvania called Pilots for to begin warm themselves i fire on the Mall, they added, would State Treasury affect Peace- The recently organized near the Capitol Saturday mi continue to make napalm as long Quaker-oriented group g. They are united about 1.5 to 2 million taxpayers announced it would "bomb" in a common goal for peace. AP Wire Photo as the country needed it. by an average of $49 per year. G e rs t acker told th The legislature adjourned until Media, Pa., and Washington with stockholders that the son of Dec. 2, while Milliken and paper airplanes carrying the Dow stockholder, serving in bipartisan leaders of both message, "The war's over - if wa"t il to be *nd ur|J"g Vietnam, wrote that his platoon was trapped by the enemy and air strikes of napalm were called Houses stated negotiations on negotiations vhere on and the bills and how you nonn,° to write to Nixon. The same group "bombed" two Ohio Give blood is week in. The napalm saved the others the package might communities In Texas, about 150 persons platoon, Gerstacker, "Thank God for according to and the son napalm." The said _ begin. Pointing up the necessity for such negotiations was the fact most of them young, followed a one winding 15-mile route Armed San Antonio from the though pint takes stockholders applauded. that Republicans control the The annual fall term blood drive begins Monday at Forces Induction Center to the Demonstration Hall. Ft. Sam Houston National The drive is a project of Alpha Phi Omega fraternity and Cemetery. Four youths carried a Gamma Sigma Sigma sorority in conjunction with the Lansing small, black coffin at the head of Red Cross the parade and two marchers Blood din be donated from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday through supported a banner reading Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. There will be a special need for A positive and O positive blood Antiwar groups in Miami on Monday, said Dean Fritz general chairman. scheduled a rally for late The goal for this year's blood drive is 1.855 pints, he added. Saturday night. They said they Only 1,300 were donated last year. wanted to allow participants SUBMARINE SANDWICHES "It is sad that we get only this much from a campus of this time Hobie's to get back from size," Fritz said. I Always Look CARRY0UT& DELIVERY PHONE 351-3800 Washington. About Quakers 200 headed Massachusetts for the Many smaller schools donate as much as MSU, he declared. One feature of the blood drive is competition between living units, on campus and off. Canadian border to hand over In addition to the usual plaques which are awarded. Acting money to Canadian Quakers for President Adams will give a box of his cigars to the living unit Like This When medical supplies for war Vietnamese victims. They planned to turn over the funds at Derby which has the highest percentage of members donating. Fritz said. He recommended eating something before giving blood. Definitely don't skip a meal, he said. Line, Vt. There are refreshments such as cookies, milk, coffee and soda About 200 persons gathered available after has given blood. I Miss one My on the Vermont green of the University of for chapel to read the state's war dead. a march names to the of the It takes about 45 minutes to Fritz said. Those who forms. The forms are an hour to give a pint of blood, under 21 are reminded to bring parental release can be obtained at residence hall desks. Sunday Pizza SONY Introduces A New ON CAMPUS contact little Caesars CALL Wallace's for aopointment for an Stereo - the compact HP188 '337-1681 Re your contacts! ?i22a Treat 1071 TROWBRIDGE RD. NEAR HARRISON RD. They're our a real hit! 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Industrialization has played a key role in bringing the United States to its present position of prosperity and world dominance. Lansing's air pollution situation hasn't always been so good, however. The city used to have some real atmosphere headaches. Industrialization has also brought along air pollution. "We used to have one heckuva problem with pollutedair coming All over the country, problems concerning waste products in from the fertilizer plant of the W.R. Grace Co." Pesterfield the atmosphere have followed in the wake of industrialization's pointed out. gains. The restrictive measures designed to control air pollution often lag behind the technical innovations that produce more and "I remember times when you couldn't go up High St., where more the fertilizer plant is located, because you couldn't see at all." smog. Air pollution is a nationwide dilemma. Large metropolitan But, the W. R. Grace Co., after being contacted by the city cities like Los Angeles which spends more money on air pollution concerning citizen complaints, has taken steps to allieviate its air than the rest of U.S. cities put together face an extensive battle pollution. Although Lansing officials won't know whether or not with atmosphere contamination. the problem has been solved until this spring (the plant's peak Yet, one need look no further than to find evidence of air production period), the fertilizer company has totally pollution. Consider Lansing and East Lansing. co-operated with the city. Pesterfield said most plants or businesses contacted by the city Lansing's isn't critical. \ about air pollution show little reluctance to cooperate. The city "Compared to other cities its size, Lansing is one of the cleanest has never had to take anyone to court to curb atmosphere' cities in the country," Charles Pesterfield, Lansing air pollution contamination. engineer and MSU professor of mechanical engineering said. 1 "We try to help anyone having an air pollution problem," Pesterfield emphasized. Continual "We don't push a person too hard to make corrections because Lansing's lock of city transportation crease in number, but solution is we might run him out of business. So far the Air Pollution Board means travel no even proposed has never been one to close down a business." by car, and travel by car adds up to constant for the Lansing area. The Air Pollution Board doesn't go out looking for air fumes of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide gasses State News Photo by Jerry McAllister^ pollution. It takes action only after it has received a formal throughout the city. Population increases, cars in- complaint. And, as Pesterfield points out, if there is a definite problem of air pollution somewhere, people won't hesitate to into incinerator fires. The solid 'Hie lack of an adequate waste disposal system has added to the particles that float out constitute complain about it. Red Cedar River's contamination. After the Board receives a complaint, it contacts the State a major air pollution problem. "The practice of burying dead animals in gravel is a problem Despite the air pollution that exists on campus, the State hasn't Board of Health which then takes a sampling test for air too; but this is going to come to a quick end--you can bet on pressured the University into making any changes. The Board of pollution. If the tests show a high degree of atmosphere Health has honored University officials' promises to eventually that," he said. contamination, the Board contacts the company in question and "We're going to catch the people who are doing these things correct the air pollution here. tells it to take restrictive actions. MSU recently began action on its pollution problem. University and we're going to land on them with both feet," he said. As long as the company shows some inclination to solve its air officials appointed a committee of four, including Pesterfield, to Air pollution also comes from metals that enter the atmosphere pollution problem, the Air Pollution Board will leave it alone. from incinerators in campus chemistry labratories. recommend one of four company offers to study and help solve the waste disposal problem. With Lansing's air pollution problem somewhat under control, The committee will make its recommendation to the Board of Pesterfield said he spends a lot of his time just following up on Trustees by Nov. 26. businesses that have been told to correct their atmosphere Pesterfield said the company that receives MSU's contract will contamination. undertake a five-month study of the campus. Trains and airplanes don't create a very big air pollution The survey won't be an easy job, according to Pesterfield.The problem in a city like Lansing, but automobiles do. According to Pesterfield, the government's ruling that all new cars must have company will test air pollution dorms, married housing and the vet clinic, then figure out how animal and human flesh (with the anti pollution systems by 1972 should help matters. new medical centers coming in) should be properly disposed. Pesterfield said the biggest air pollution problem in Lansing The company will also decide how to dispose of leaves, twigs, comes from people burning leaves and trash in the open. With no waste, beer bottles and tin cans. "The company must find a city ordinances prohibiting such burnings, the situation is hard to curb. system that is adequate and more economical-one that is keyed to the future growth of the University," Pesterfield stated. Air pollution is presently more serious on campus than in the city of Lansing. Despite all this, Pesterfield is optimistic about controlling air "Air pollution has been a long standing sore spot at MSU," pollution in the future. "The University has had growing pains and these will continue. Pesterfield reflected. "We have some unique atmosphere problems here, but we don't know how serious they are right now." However, we haven't yet run into an air pollution problem that we can't solve," he observed. Pesterfield said a large part of the problem revolved around "The air pollution here, is going to be controlled in the future." methods of waste disposal. Some of these methods would raise a few eyebrows if they were disclosed, he stated. "We've always wondered how soon the dav will come when someone blows a campus manhole ■ Pesterfield. State News photo by Tom Leone State News photo by Jerry McAllister 1^ DOWN TOWN LANSING cPen 10 n m ~ 2 "People at the vet clinic throw diseased rats, cats and horses 'The State News, the student newspaper at Michigan State Hillel Foundation University, is published every class day and Sundays during STUDENT WIFE SAYS four school terms, plus Welcome Week edition in September. Subscription rate is $14 per year. SUNDAY, NOV. 16, 6 p.m. Member Associated Press, United Press International, Inlani Daily Press Association, Associated Collegi. te Press, Michiga. War interferes with marriage SUPPER FORUM SOCIAL Press Association, Michigan Collegiate Presr; Association, Unite< States Student Press Association. Second class postage paid at East Lansing Michigan. school she said. It was the worst same policy it did with China Editorial and business offices at 347 Student "It makes them feel better," Service thing he ever did. she said. "They have a sense of and it didn't work there, she Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. We thought of getting engaged said. Vietnam is being ruined "THE CHANGING POWER Like the majority of anti-war before Norm left for Vietnam, sharing the problem. At school "I STRUCTURE OF THE only hope that if I did Phones: students, Mary Pease, Rockford but you're constantly reminded that both economically and morally. believe in the war, I would still UNIVERSITY: STUDENTS- things were too uncertain, your husband's not here." Two of the worst problems Editorial 3;>5-8252 junior, has a strong desire to see she added. remember that other people FACULTY-ADMIN ISTR A there Classified Advertising 355-8255 the Vietnam war ended. She also He You just don't have that much are prostitution and have a right to their own opinion TION" was worried that "one in has a persona] reason. venereal disease, Mrs. Pease Display Advertising 353-6400 10" come back in a coffin, Mrs. in common with other students, and to participate in peaceful ? Wclco Her husband is there. declared. Business-Circulation 355-3'.47 Pease said. she added. Seeing couples demonstrations," she said. "I'm very much for the Photographic 355-8311 "When Norm went over there, together makes you envious. Although she feels an "I would like to see other moratorium," she said. he had no opinion about the Being with married friends is immediate withdrawal is She is glad to see other people, especially older people even worse. unfeasible (too many lives would feel this way," she added. students' concern for the war be She was very much against it lost), she said she would like Mrs. Pease said she would have and supports their It is very hard to be separated to see troops withdrawn within a demonstrations. (in fact, she worked for McCarthy's election) and tried but, being against the war makes year. liked to participate in the [ Domino's Coupon Domino's Coupon t Her husband told her these it even harder, she said. Washington moratorium but to bring her husband around to "I don't want any more killed couldn't, because it might 50* demonstrations don't affect Pease admitted she Worth Good on her way of thinking. Mrs. and I don't want any more to go endanger her husband's security any soldiers in Vietnam. Those who worries a lot about her husband. Norm still when he are was against the war are glad to left, she said, but after he unsure The soldiers in Vietnam can't over. We've had many friends status. on-campus order was in see them and those who are for Vietnam a while he became very trust anyone except other the war don't let the opposed to the war. Americans, she said. limit-one coupon per Pizza demonstrations bother them, he Mr. and Mrs. Pease were "I can't blame the Vietnamese Expires Nov. 20, 1969 said. married when Norm was home "I don't believe in the and for hating us though. Look what &D omino's Coupon Domino's Coupon7, your war on leave from Vietnam this we're doing to their country." my husband doesn't either," summer Mrs. Pease declared. "I thought that. I was used to The United States is just Her husband, Norm, was in Any radio, TV set, thing his being gone and that I would creating bad feeling there, she cassette or Vietnam before they were continued. Out foreign policy be able to adjust to things easily DOMINO'S tape recorder with married. He signed up for the doesn't take into consideration a phono jack. when he went back," Mrs. Pease Army after graduating from high said. the determination these people "But I found it very difficult have shown in the past. to be separated. I couldn't be Our country is following the Trustee Martin alone. It's been very hard to adjust. He may be killed for something useless." PIZZA our bag At first she went home a lot. *7: c- quizzed tonight Her friends there husbands in Vietnam have things with Garrard's X-10 module <, 5 Council called vocal circus EDITOR'S NOTE: The "Are you ready to be thrown "guilty of being spineless in not One council member seemed debated. A parliamentarian following "review" of an to the lions," he whispered to a enforcing germaneness." ( This to be exasperated by the entire finally resolved the question by Academic Council meeting is colleague. was his way of saying the noting that the chairman could based on Miss Hodge's Acting President Adams, professor's speech was not "Gentlemen, I've heard much only vote to break a lie. interpretation of the meeting, chairman of the council, didn't relevant to the topic under discussion but no votes. Could At 5 p.m. the faculty members and her description is obviously seem very anxious to tackle the discussion.) we please vote on something," colored. subject of student participation The eloquent speaker turned he begged. began to shift restlessly in their in academic government. red and stomped back I lis plea was ignored. chairs and most eyes were By ANN HODGE to the "We're scheduled to start with The whole council appeared to focused on the clock. State News Staff Writer microphone. Academic Council can at times Recommendation 4 unless the "When considering a matter as be tangled up in parliamentary Adams tried desperately to be more accurately labeled council would agree to skip to important as this, I feel adequate procedure and a good portion of end the meeting, but several "academic circus." Recommendation 15," he said. discussion is necessary," he said. the meeting was spent trying to Adams didn't back down and a figure out which motion Look speakers were reluctant to give During these meetings, Everyone laughed, but Adams looked genuinely disappointed. few professors appeared to put precedence. up their posts at the distinguished faculty members microphone. are supposed to debate scholarly One professor approached the aside their prepared speeches. One professor approached the topics -- generally considered microphone with a fistfull of The debate really became microphone twice, only to be About 10 minutes later they dull fare for discussion. notes and delivered a lengthy heated when one of the student sent hack to his seat for being sulked back to their chairs and Yet they usually manage warning to the faculty. representatives accused the out of order. the council passed the first to "If students are allowed to speaker of using "scare tactics." The council finally gave up motion of the day ~ to adjourn. stray from the scheduled subject matter long enough to offer an vote on this body, the faculty He almost ran to the parliamentary debate and Adams entertaining look at the human will no longer have a majority microphone to deliver his suspended the rules. side of the faculty personality. voice on campus," he said. rebuttal. It was evident he was At one point the discussion In fact, certain professors have He backed up his point with a prepared for battle. about who is to have a vote on Amusing, established themselves stand-up comedians during these as series of percentages and a history of faculty government at TTie council drew up sides and the fight began. One faculty the council students to the chairman. shifted from Dale Hathaway, chairman of the Academic Council Steering Committee, casts sessions. MSU. member glanced at the clock and "Let it be noted for the record an amuiid glance at acting president Walter Adams at a recent meeting of the Last month, however, when A few professors looked sighed. He seemed to sense that that I have no vote here," council members assembled to shocked, nodded their heads and Recommendation 4 would be Adams said. "I suffer sitting here council. State News photo by Bob Ivlns wrestle over the Massey Report, quickly nudged their neighbors. lost in the discussion -- he was silently." the handful of spectators present Other council members were right. Someone immediately jumped noticeably less Impressed. A few to his defense to argue that the were prepared to be bored. A few motions were made The faculty certainly didn't people yawned, others In the chairman could vote. during the next hour but they looked bewildered look radical, dressed In their back of the room whispered and were talked into the ground Adams 'Personal dark business suits and white laughed and one professor while the point was being Matter' before a vote could be taken. shirts. But one professor hinted started to clean his glasses. that the meeting might hold a After the speaker finished his rprises. dissertation, Adams called him TICKETS NOW in east lansing: Reg. $1.75 reveals lost ethics By VALERIE RESTIVO i the thought that "I'm the At 1:30-3:30-5:30-7:30-9:30 "lost mariner" shop spartan slioppino center Trowbridge & in lansing: Harrison Sunday Only 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. "WAIT DI8NEY3 State News Reviewer ^ CIVIC CENTER Book Review: "A Personal Matter," by Kenzaburo Oe, translated from the Japanese by What follows is Bird's attempt to reconcile the Darby 0 Gill and ftffa ; office telephone: | THIS IS A MUST John Nathan (Grove Press, 1969. 95 cents). Bird, the protagonist, of "A Personal Matter," birth, with himself and society. He tries to escape from the reality of the situation. He plans his the Little -tickets also at- , FOR FISH LOVERS. ffeople "real" trip to Africa with Himiko. He hardly belongs to Japan's post-war generation. He has, WURZBURG stores OPEN talks to his wife and never experiences TECHNICOLOR as the translator notes, "been deprived of his 1 communication with her. His actions head to Sun., Thru Thurs. ethical inheritance. The values that regulated life "DEATH RIDES ostracism from the university where he has this week ) 6 A.M. To 11 P.M. in the world he knew as a child were blown THURS. AHORSE" Fri. & Sat. . . . taught. I to smithereens at the end of the war." Bird is a husband, about to become a father. None of the "good" people with "respectable" 18 22 2820 6 A.M. To 2 A.M. 487- Yet his days are spent in preparation for an idyllic trip to Africa. He purchases maps and values are able to understand Bird's dilemma. It is less a dilemma of ethics than of convenience - gawpys NOW! Feature at SI AWED ARTISTS HIM r E. 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