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Disse lissions Vary, Debating Heated
Bv JOHN ASHFORD
Hurricane Stiff Writer
The Rhodesian Question, South Africa’s apartheid, the lndia-Pakistan dispute and disarmament were points of discussion at the first Invitational United Nations Model Security Council (CCUN) which convened behind the
closed doors of UM’s Flamingo Ballroom.
Deliberations on the part of 42 delegates in attendance aroused interest during the two-day affair held last Saturday and Sunday.
Edward Shohat, President of the meeting assembly, and Jacob Szapiro, Secretary
Off The Wire
C.ompiletl from the uires of the Associated Press
Columbia Sit-ins Set Ip Blockade
NEW YORK — (AP) — An impatient faction of the Columbia University student body threw up a blockade today to squeeze off a protest by fellow students that has disrupted the Ivy League school for a week.
Columbia called off classes again as efforts continued to end the student sit-in at five buildings.
But some students eager for the school to return to normal formed what they called the Majority Coalition to end the protest and threw up a blockade around Low Memorial Library Sunday night.
They tightened it this morning, saying they were cutting off all food and medical supplies for about 100 protesters inside. About 200 students manned the blockade.
"Boor People' Outline Demands
WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Poor People’s Campaign got off to a late start today as organizers outlined a series of strong demands for the Department of Agriculture.
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy and his “Committee of 100’’ advance scouts for the campaign were more than an hour and a half late for their first activity, a 9 a.m. meeting with Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman.
Their four-page list of agriculture demands included abolishment of subsidies to large farmers for not growing crops, support of farm workers’ rights to collective bargaining, and revision of the food stamp program so that persons too poor to buy stamps can get them free.
“The existence of hunger and malnutrition in this country is an incontestable fact,” said a committee statement.
60 AF Cadets III, Out Of Class
COLO. — (AP) — Classes were suspended at the Air Force Academy today after a number of cadets became ill with an as yet unidentified type of virus.
An academy officials said at least 500 cadets had been treated for throat infections.
About 60 cadets arc in an emergency hospital set up in the academy gymnasium. A spokesman said they had sore throats, were vomiting and were suffering from diarrhea. None was regarded in dangerous condition, a spokesman said.
Food Shortage May Mean Trouble
TUNIS — (AP) — The world was on the brink of a seri- i ous food disaster last year, the head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization told the 16th general conference of j the International Federation of Agricultural Producers. Director-General Addeke H. Boerma said "one more bad harvest and the world would have been in very serious trouble in- j deed.” But he said food conditions now “permit a cautious optimism.”
Rocky To Name 6Political Plans''
ALBANY. N'.Y. — (AP) — Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller
will make “an announcement concerning his political plans” at 11 a m. Tuesday, Leslie Slote, the governor’s press secretary, said today.
Slote’s announcement came as reports circulated in the Capitol that Rockefeller would declare his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
French Perform Heart Transplant
PARIS — (AP) — The first French heart transplant operation was performed this weekend but doctors today expressed concern for the patient’s recovery.
Speaking with newsmen 30 hours after the operation, the doctors reported the patient suffered a circulation failure during surgery and since then nerve complications have set in.
Bullfighter Refuses Barnard's Aid
LISBON, Portugal — (AP) — An offer by Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard, the South African heart transplant surgeon, to treat a gored bullfighter was declined Sunday.
The bullfighter. Ricardo Chibanga. was gored in the day’s first bullfight. Barnard was in the audience and immediately offered to treat his injuries But he was told the arena had its g own special medial staff.	,
General, presided over discussions.
A proposal by Hungary was the only legislation they witnessed passed during the session. It dealt with relief and education of dependents of persons persecuted by the government of South Africa for acts stemming from opposition to the policies of apartheid.
Barry College, Biscayne College, Dade Jr. College, Florida Memorial College, Rollins College and the University of Miami represented the 13 nations in attendance.
Founded in the fall of 1966, the local chapter of the CCUN set to work with a goal of fostering the understanding of the machinery and policies of the United Nations.
During January, 1967, an observant delegation from UM was sent to New York for the National Model United Nations, NMUN.
In April 1967, the first Model Security Council, restricted to UM participation, was held on campus, with the active participation of both American and International students.
The first session was a noted success. With encouragement, the CCUN held another similar assembly which generated equal enthusiasm of debate. Last weekend’s was the first meeting in which other colleges were invited to attend.
In January, 1968, the CCUN delegation from UM won top national honors in New York during an NMUN session.
The six-man team was awarded top recognition along with universities as Harvard, George Washington and American. Competition included 176 colleges and universities from the U.S.
Victor Ridaura, vice-president of the CCUN, considers the recent session to have been “successful in its efforts to provide an opportunity for interested students to face the issues of our day.”
Ridaura said that organization will continue to foster wider knowledge of the important problems existing in our modern world by providing common grounds for debate.
Countries represented in the session included Algeria, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Hungary, India, Pakistan, Paraguay, Senegal, USSR, United Kingdom, and the United States.
The .Moment of Pressure Easing Realization
. . . as l{ichard's historic re-election bid fails
Smiling Handshake of a \\ inner
.. . Sherman ecstatic oi er ciclory
Second Of Three Paris
I0()s March Al Duke l nil. Protest Workers' Treatment
WVUM To Open
WVUM, UM’s radio on 90.5 FM, will be broadcasting very shortly. Public service announcements are now being accepted. Notices to be aired must be no longer than three minutes in length and typewritten. The station reserves the right to edit all submitted material. Information may be brought to the station, upper lounge of the Whiten Union, Room S 202, or mailed to: P.O. Box 8191 University of Miami ^Branch.
By MARK PINSKY
Hurricane Reporter
Sunday morning, April 7, several hundred more Duke students marched out to Dr. Knight’s house, joined those who had been sitting in there, marchea back with them to the campus and began the around-the-clock Siilent Vigil on the main quadrangle. They arrived just in time to horrify the very proper Durham community leaving Easter Sunday serv ices in the university chapel
The fact that the demon strators’ single demand was now simply that the universi ty recognize the principle of collective bargaining in dealing with its mostly black non academic workers aided the demonstrators immensely. The obvious resemblance to the Sanitation workers situation in Memphis, the issue which brought Martin Luther King to that city and his death, could not be ignored.
By Sunday evening, five hundred students were silently camping on the quad and members of the Board of Trustees had begun to arrive on campus from around the state and nation. By Monday their number had reached a thousand, a class boycott had been instituted, and the maids, janitors groundskeepers and dining hall employees had gone on strike.
As the numbers on the quad increased, their base of support widened. Both the IFC and MRHA had passed resolutions supporting the Vigil and pledged funds to feed those on the quad and the worker’s strike fund. In fact, one of the Vigil leaders, Bunny Small, recalled her first experience addressing the enlarged group on the quad. “1 never saw so many former fascists in mv entire life.”
Nearly one hundred fac-u 11 y members, including some of the most prestigious
and responsible in the university, threatened to resign if constructive responses from the Board of Trustees was not forthcoming. The Divinity School passed a resolution calling for a halt to faculty pay raises in the Divinity School until the plight of the noon-academic workers was resolved.
Wright Tisdale, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Vice-President of Ford Motor Company flew in from Detroit Monday and assumed virtual control of the university. He agreed to meet with Vigil leaders in the basement of the Chapel at 2 a.m. Wednesday. In a stormy confrontation the auto executive maintained that not only did he adamantly oppose unions but that he was empirically against the principal of collective bargaining.
Telegrams of support from Presidential candidates and public figures began to arrive.-The one from Senator Robert Kennedy read, in part, “By your action in support of the employees of ine university who seek recognition for their bargaining rights, you set a standard that all should emulate. By your action now you worked to improve the lives of those employees. By our common efforts, we will work to improve the lives of all Americans.”
By Wednesday, the main quadrangle was the home of over fifteen hundred (according to the Associated Press) Duke students. Entertainers and activists folk heroes began showing up at the vigil, beginning with Resistance head Dave Harris and his wife, folksinger Joan Baez.
The Board of Trustees at first meeting reportedly wanted to close the university, fire troublesome faculty and administration personal, expel student leaders,
Hurricane New, Editor
Current USG president Dennis Richard was defeated in his bid for re-election by Michael Abrams, UM junior.
Abrams received 1478 votes, while Richard trailed by 143, totalling 1335 votes.
Michael Leone, third place candidate, received 234 votes.
The other two of ] Abram’s slate, Alan Sherman and Tom Rebel, also scored over their opponents, although the margins were narrow in both cases.
Sherman totaled 1410 votes, 146 more than his closest rival, Ricardo D’-Jaen, in the bid for the Vice-Presidency.
Rebel, one of four candidates for USG treasurer, placed first with 1287 votes, against 1213 of Bud Bukhair who ran on Richard’s slate.
Sophomore class rep-
resentatives elected were Bruce O’Boyle, Stuart Weiss, and Jim Yasser.
Phil Bloom and Bruce Dresner walked off with Junior class representative positions, and two other candidates, Linda Enz and Richard Lamos tied for the third vacant seat. A runoff is scheduled for the two.
Luis A. Gonzalez, John Regan, and Sharon Gar-man were elected senior-class representatives.
Ml elected USG council members and executives will be sworn in May 13. Abrams is expected to call for a meeting with all the newly-elected members to discuss plans for his presidency of USG.
Announcement of the final tallies came Friday night in the annual USG banquet for the candidates and USG personnel. The results were verified and certified by election board members.
Jack Jones fiere Sunday
use fire hoses to clear the quad)angle and, if necessary, call in the National Guard.
In calmer moments they offered advanced incremental wage increases to the striking workers without reprisals and a study committeed to consider the possib',ities of collective bargaining in return for which the Vigil agreed to a ten-day moratorium on camping out and boycotting classes.
A word about collective bargaining and the South. The term means the right of workers to select, by free elections, representatives from among themselves to enter into binding contractual negotiations with employers. This right was won and recognized as legitimate throughout the United States approximately 50 years ago. In the South, however, where unionization often spells the end of profitable exploitation of labor, collective bargaining, even in principle is anathema.
Hence, the Vigil and local union leaders were somewhat skeptical when the makeup of the special committee of the Board of Trustees was announced. Reflecting the entire board, its members included directors of Hanes Corporation and Burlington Industries both of which are notorious for National Labor Relations Board conviction for unfair labor practices and brutal anti-labor supresslon. Another member was an official with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, one of the largest non-union corporations in the country with a reputation much like the textile mills.
An evening rally on the quadrangle five days later turned out three thousand students and an angry Pete Sccgar. He was angry because of the rather effective
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Jaik Jones, RCA recording artist, will be presented by the USG Entertainment Committee on Sunday, May 5 at 8 p.m. on the Whitten Union patio.
Jones, who made his official debut in his father's act at the Thunderhird Hotel, Las Vegas, during summer 1957, lias continued to climb in the entertainment world ever since. Appearances on the original Jerry Lewis Show in 1963 gave him his first real national impetus.
lie selects most ot what he records himself, basing his decision on originality in lyrics, melody and harmony. Among his hits are “Lollipops and Roses,” “Wives and Lovers,” “The Impossible Dream" and "Lady.” Some of his more recent hits are “Live for Life" and "If You Ever Leave Me.”
He has had recent summer stock engagements in "Pajama Game" and “Oklahoma.”
An admirer of the Beatles,
Jones is the son of singer Allan Jones and actress Irene
Hervey.
UM Soph Com tu Us Suicide
[ S(i Amcnrinirnl
1.	“All other candidates will run independently, and there shall be no more political parties,” (article lOe) shall be stricken.
2.	Article lOg will become: I j “the council shall draw the
regulations in the form of an election code to govern the conduct at all studrnt elec-
tions excluding the regulations at the student political parties, and the council shall ; create an election board to administer the coo*''
The death of a UM sophomore last Thursday morning was ruled an apparent suicide by the Dade County medical examiner.
Michael Joseph George, 20, of 1204 Walsh Ave. was dead on arrival to Doctor’s Hospital at 2:08 a.m. Thursday.
Apparent cause of death was an overdose of sodium-cyanide, a deadly poison.
A pair of small vials, one containing white crystals later identified as sodium cyanide, were found next to the bed.
George's roommate awoke after 1:30 a.m. to find him gasping for breath “He was breathing pretty hard and then he fell off the bed, in a coma.”
Police called an ambulance and George never regained consciousness.
I he cause lor the suicide has not b<“en determined. George’s roommate and the two other men sharing the on-campus apartment said he was always distant, had lew true friends, and rarely stayed around the apartment.
An honor student, George had received an Engineering s< holarship given to only two other persons in the United States last year.
Although the motive was officially given as "family troubles,” his roommmate and associates said he gave no indication of any trouble at home, and only rarely traveled to his home in Bremerton, Wash.
“He never talked about his family,” one said.
Poor grades could apparently be ruled out, also, as no trouble could be seen in that area.
“Mike told me he never opened a book for one of his courses,” his roommate said, “and he said it was just now beginning to get difficult.”
George worked with computers at UM’s computer center, but apparently obtained the cyanide from the chemistry laboratory, to which he had clearance.
He had returned from the computer center about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, and it was
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