Miami Hurricane, February 18, 1969

              Wisconsin Boils While Duke
By CRAIG PETERSON
Of Th# Hurricane Staff
*	Student unrest continued at the University of Wisconsin today and ended for Duke University after a week of violence at each campus.
National Guardsmen were called back to the Wisconsin campus yesterday when dissidents broke into Bascom Hall and disrupted classes. The hall also houses the Chancellor’s offices.
*	Police and 1000 National Guardsmen had been withdrawn from the U of W campus Friday by order of the school administration, but were waiting outside the university on standby duty.
The violence began Feburary 10, after the administration rejected 13 demands by the Black Student
*	Council. One of the primary demands centered on the creation of a separate black studies department.
After a morning strategy meeting, on the tenth, the black students and some 6500 white sympathizers split into two major groups and surrounded classroom buildings, refusing to allow anyone to enter.
Troops were called to the campus Thursday, reinforced by some 600 local, state and highway patrol police officers.
When troops and police arrived, the crowds melted away and reformed at other classroom buildings in remote corners of the campus. Harried police sent flying squads of men in buses to the trouble centers, only to arrive and meet no resistance.
Black organizers created a slogan for their strategy — “Walk the pigs to death.”
One major incident occurred early Thursday when a police bus allegedly rammed a crowd of demonstrators, injuring one person. Windows on the bus were broken by students.
Another incident involved a small group of National Guardsmen who were inadvertently surrounded by demonstrators. The troops fixed bayonets and forced their way out.
“It was a mistake,” a spokesman for the student group said. “We didn’t mean to put them in a pocket
but they thought they were in trouble and got panicky.”
Students held a six-hour dance last Saturday to raise funds for an extended seige. Reports indicate a large number of people attended the dance.
Black spokesmen say the group will continue the strike until their demands are met. There has been no official word from the administration on future policy.
Duke University black students ended their strike yesterday after the administration agreed to several of their demands. The Administration agreed to construct black dormitories, hire black advisors, revise the grading system, and reportedly will offer a general amnesty for striking students.
Non-student strikes are currently being planned on the campus by the Non-academic Employees Union, which was to hold a meeting early this morning with administration officials.
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first floor of the Allen building — a classroom and administration building — to discuss their demands for collective bargaining, and will hold a sit-in if their demands are not met.
The Allen building is the same structure held for several hours by striking black students a week ago. Their occupation was ended voluntarily but police were mistakenly called in and lobbed teargas cannis-ters into the crowd, starting a rock-throwing spree by students. Some 26 persons were reported injured, most of them students.
In a telephone interview with the Hurricane, Mark Pinsky, Duke Chronicle associate editor, said “the Durham city cops took off their nameplates and badges to prevent identification and then moved in.”
Police were withdrawn from the campus after the incident and students met with the administration off and on during the week.
Threatened violence was averted when administration officials agreed to several of the black students’ demands yesterday.
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Volume 44, No. 33
Tuesday, February 18, 1969
284-4401
A WS, Brunson Approve Changes
Fall Curfew Proposals Made To Butler
By MELANI VAN PETTEN
Of Th* HurrlciM Staff
The list of changes in women’s rules proposed by the AWS Rules Revision Committee, which includes the abolition of curfews for sophomores through seniors, was approved by Dean of Women May A. Brunson Thursday morning.
The list of seven proposed
changes will now be presented to Vice President for Student Affairs William R. Butler for approval. If approved by Butler, it will go to President Stanford and his Cabinet.
The proposed changes include:
ABOLITION OF CURFEWS- for sophomores, jun-
iors, and seniors;
ABOLITION OF HOSTESS
permissions;
EXTENSION OF the weekend sign-out period to include any time from the last class of the week to the first class of the following week.
EXTENSION OF the fresh-
man curfew to weeknights.
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Fire Alarm Ignites Spirited Panty Raid
—Photo by DANE TAYLOR
Male Students Gather Under 730 Dorm Calling For Panties
... they got panties anil water and firecrackers and . . .
The 1968 Dormitory Complex became the initial rallying point for the Valentine’s Eve Panty Raid.
It began immediately following a fire alarm in the women’s dorm which had forced the evacuation of the building.
The alarm, released Shortly after 10:30 p.m. because of a fire in a trash chute of the men’s dorm, mistakenly went off in the women’s tower as well.
As coeds poured from the building and congregated outside, the men residents followed suit. They were separated by university officials.
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6Do It Again’ Raiders Cried As They Crashed 730 Door
By LINDA KLEINDIENST
Of Th* Hurricane Staff
400 UM men stormed 730 East Women’s Residence last Thursday night and almost succeeded in swamping the entire building.
The 730 raid, began around midnight when males swarmed before locked doors of the girls’ dorm.
While the men were screaming “We want pan-ties,” resident advisors were desperately trying to get the women residents to stay in their rooms.
Girls flocked by the dozens to any window that would offer a view of the excite-m e n t. Comments ranged from a whisper of “I don’t believe it,” to screams of ‘C’mon boys!” and “This is the greatest thing that has happened to this school in years.”
While trying to acquire first-hand news of the event at the first floor desk, this Hurricane Reporter was quickly told to “Go on up to your room, lock your door, shut your blinds and turn out your lights.”
Outside, the crowd continued to grow to about 500, and the men still kept on screaming “We want pants!” while they were wrestling and grabbing for anything that was being thrown from the windows . . . including rolls of toilet paper.
Girls on the second and third floors were reportedly the worst offenders of the “close the windows” ruling, by throwing a stream of stockings, bras and panties to the eager onlookers below.
A lone police whistle blew intermittenly, at which time the men would began to yell their disapproval of the
“cops."
At one point, a group began to ram one of the side doors, yelling “Let’s go in!"
When their first attempt failed, they began screaming “Do it again, do it again, harder, harder!”
Finally the door lock broke and the men began to swarm in. After approximately a minute, however, they were running just as fast in the opposite direction. The crowd of intruders had encountered a delegation of about 20 male RA’s who had been summoned from Mahoney Hall.
Yells of “Cowards!” rang through the night.
A half hour after it began, the panty raid ended. The men retreated en masse, looking elated at the degree of success they had achieved, while a few girls sauntered in through the front door to sign in for the night.
Even after the raid had ended, those in charge on the first floor still refused to give any comment or information
on the evening’s activities.
The next day, Mrs. Anne Brett, head resident of 730 East, reported that this was the first such disturbance at the residence hall.
“The last panty raid was during the spring of jthe year that Mahoney Hall (then a
women’s dorm) was first open,” she said. “During that one, the girls paid very little attention to the men outside. The next day they put a pail of panties in front of the door, with a sign hanging on it p r oc 1 a i m i n g, ‘Help yourself.’ ”
a chant of "We want pan-ties!" from the crowd of 500 males.
After crossing the canal and spending a few minutes at the 960 dorm, the crowd moved on to the 730-Maho-ney complex.
During the half hour siege of 730 East, windows on the 2nd and 3rd floors, along with the glass in the door to the Great Lounge, were broken in an aerial exchange of toilet paper rolls and oranges.
At one point the men did succeed in breaking down a side door of the residence hall. However they were prevented from getting past the first floor by a conten-gency of Mahoney resident advisors.
Mahoney Hall front doors were locked and male residents were told these measures were “to keep the men from joining the trouble,” said George Sidor, dorm director.
According to Dean of Men, Nicholas Gennett, no disciplinary action has been planned for those participating in the panty raid.
“H oweva r,” he added, “anyone who is found to have been involved in the destruction of property will have some form of action taken against them . . . probably at the residence hall level.”
Mrs. Anne Brett, head resident of 730 East, reported
that no infractions - will be handed out to any girls who were reported during the night’s activities. “We just didn’t want anyone to get hurt," she said.
The broken windows on the 2nd and 3rd floors of 730 were repaired by Friday afternoon.
Weekend curfews for freshmen would remain at 2:00.
It is also proposed that senior women, and possibly juniors be allowed to live off campus, and that women with curfews be allowed five overnight permissions during, the week, each consisting of a 24-hour period. Weekend permissions would remain the same for women with curfews, and women without curfews may sign in at night if they wish to.
If approved, these changes will go into effect in September, 1969. The administration has stated that it would be impossible to put the changes into effect immediately, since the women’s rules presently in effect are printed in the 1968-69 bulletin, and the University has a legal responsibility to maintain
them.
The list of requested changes was approved by members of the Dean of Women’s staff and the AWS Executive Board, and the Chairman of the Rules Revision Committee. The meeting was closed to all others, including four members of the Rules Revision Committee who attempted to enter.
The decision to close the meeting was made by AWS president Cindy Hill.
It was reported that there were no negative votes on any of the proposed changes, but that several of the students present abstained from voting on several issues.
The recommended changes were the result of a questionnaire circulated by the Rules Revision Committee and completed by approximately 68 per cent of women residents. They were approved by the AWS Central Council in December.
Conscience Day Moved; Faculty Support Asked
The Day of Conscience, originally planned for March 7, has been rescheduled for March 5 to avoid conflict with Greek Week activities, the steering committee announced this week.
USG President Mike Abrams called for the change arguing “I don’t think it’s fair to 1,500 fraternity and sorority members to deprive them of the opportunity to participate.”
The steering committee met with President Henry King Stanford last Wednesday to discuss the seventeen grievances and request his presence at the Rock for the Day. Stanford said he would make his decision public as soon as possible.
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The Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity house will be going up for sale in the near future, announced Bill Mosher, president of the fraternity.
“National headquarters and the chapter reached a mutual agreement on it,” said Steve Young, vice president. “It just got to the point where it was economically unfeasible for us to maintain it any longer.
“We’ve been losing too much money on it, since so many guys have been moving out,” he continued.
"Another reason we made the decision to move off campus," said Mosher, “is that we feel the rules and regulations of the University are such that we could not
function as a social fraternity should.
“We deifnitely intend to stay with the system. Right now we’re trying to get a house in the Grove.”
He said it was rumored that the University might be interested in buying, and so might Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
The February 11 edition of the Hurricane erroneously reported in a headline that Iraqui students were asked to leave an Israeli demonstration. The sponsoring Hillel Foundation did not ask that these students leave although students participating on the fringe of the demonstration are reported to have done so.
calls for the creation of a student judiciary court system has been added to the initial list the steering committee announced.
To combat what the com-m 111 e e terms “misunderstanding and deliberate misrepresentation of the purpose of the day” members plan to distribute letters to the faculty today, plan to requesting support and explaining the intention of the March 5 boycott.
The letter stated:
“As you are aware, Undergraduate Student Government, in coalition with a number of individual students and other student organizations has asked that a Day of Conscience be observed on March 5, 1969.-The purpose of this movement is to bring to light a number of grievances which are deeply felt by the student body, and to mobilize support for the redress of those grievances.
“Although the numerical
majority of these grievances is directed at the failure of various administrative offices to fulfill prior commitments to the student body on such Issues as the abolition of the mandatory board plan. It would be incorrect to assume that such issues constitute the major concern of The Day of Conscience.
"Much more important are those issues which involve the question of the inclusion of students in certain specified areas of academic planning and decision-making.
“Let us establish immediately the fact that The Day of Conscience is not, in any sense of the term, “anti-faculty." Indeed, what we seek is a strengthening and deepening of the relationship which exists between the faculty and student body. This incorrect assumption is
due, in part, to a misunderstanding of the purposes for which the boycott of classes has been called in conjunction with The Day of Conscience.
"We certainly do not believe that there is any value, political or other, in missing classes soley for the sake of missing classes. Moreover, we feel that little dialogue and few results will be forthcoming, if, on The Day of Conscience, only students are present at The Rock. We fully realize that students are not the only group with ideas and grievances in need of public discussion.
"Therefore, the Steering Committee of The Day of Conscience requests not that you cancel your classes on March 5, but that you bring your students with you to The Rock and that you participate fully and freely in the dialogue which will take place there. We also urge you to discuss with your colleagues the possibility of the proclamation of a resolution by the Faculty Senatd and President Stanford calling for a transfer of all classes from their assigned classrooms to The Rock on The Day of Conscience.
“In conclusion, let us state that we in no way seek to impinge upon proper areas cf faculty authority. However, we do believe that the inclusion of students in certain sectors of the University’s academic structure can be advantageous to all concerned. Although we, as students, may not be qualified to pass on the contents of a curriculum, we alone, as students, are uniquely qualified to judge that curriculum’s efficiency and effectiveness. In this spirit then, we aks for your advice and counsel in this effort to achieve a stature of greatness for the University.”