Miami Hurricane, April 22, 1977

              31 Arrested In Ashe Demonstration
As 1,000 Supporters, Police Clash
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Students Meet Today With HKS,V.P.s in Ashe Bldg.
• By ALAN MARCUS
Editor
Administration and students met late yesterday afternoon and will meet again this morning to discuss various student concerns ranging from academic and student services to actual budgetary details.
The two day meetings come as a direct result of Wednesday's protest against the tuition increase in which 31 students were arrested when they refused to leave the Ashe Administration Building
Student Government President- • elect Allan Lubel said "The sit-in has given the administration greater willingness to talk with us.”
The first meeting was held yesterday at 4 p.m. in the President’s Board Room in the Ashe. Scheduled to be there were UM President Henry King Stanford. Executive Vice-President for Administration and Finance Dr. John Green, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Clyde Wingfield and Vice-President for Student Affairs, Dr. William Butler and various students, including Lubel and President Susan Havey.
A list of 27 concerns had been presented early Thursday morning to Administrative officials The reason two meetings were scheduled -■was because some of the concerns voiced needed to be researched.
Lubel said that there were two main categories of concerns, one being specific budget items and the second being academic and service area planning.
Lubel said the students would not meet without Havey present at the meeting.
The 27 concerns are based on questions Student Government had formulated in a report given to the Trustees and the administration expressing some of the University's problems.
By ALAN MARCUS AND ISIDRO GARCIA
Of the Humean* staff
As a crowd of nearly 1,000 looked on. 31 students were arrested late Wednesday night when they refused to leave the Ashe Building.
The saga began at a protest of the $200 tuition increase Wednesday afternoon. Over 400 students protested outside the Ashe and nearly 275 were "locked in" by choice when the building was secured at 5:30.
Undergraduate Student Body Government President Susan Havey said the purpose of the protest was to justify the increase.
It followed a sit-in in the Ashe Friday night.
Sometime after ti p.m. students were told to leave the building in the face of disciplinary action and being arrested. After an hour and a half, about 120 students remained.
At 8:30, a paddy wagon carrying students and eight squad cars, aiso carrying students, left the Ashe for jail.
Immediately after the incident,
UM President Henry King Stanford held a press conference in the Fat uity Club
He said there was "no merit" to the protest.
"We have made broad budgetary material available The University has refused only to release line items (salaries)," he said.
And Woodward Released
Stanford
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To: UM Student Body From: Hentry King Stanford, President
Date: April 20. 1077 Subject: 1977 78 General l und Budget increases
The preparation of the budget policy for 1977 78 was an unusually difficult process since I was fat rd with a problem whit h confronts private institutions all across the country, and is of great personal concern to me That problem, on the one hand, is how to deal with the effects of inflation upon the quality of our programs and the support of the institution as a whole. On the other hand, there is the need to hold
He said, "The administration had regretfully, called the Coral Gables Police Department because of a few students who remained in the Ashe after 5:30
"The University's policy for the past ten years has been not to permit students to disrupt the University."
The President then complimented the Gables' police for their "restraint and effectiveness in handling the situation."
Wednesday's protest followed a sit-in last Friday night in the Ashe Students were in the Ashe until 10:30 when they left under the threat of expulsion Wednesday was a different story After a series of students spoke about the tuition hike and other conce-rns they had, nearly 300 stu-drnfs moved Into the Astir Buffrtfng They had come well prepared, bringing with them 40 loaves of bread, 18 pounds of peanut butter and 25 pounds of jelly At 5:30, closing time for the Ashe, everyone was told that they should leave as the building was officially closed. No one did
At K p.m.. Student Government attorney. James Gi I bride- told students the differences between a felony and misdemeanor and the different types of resisiting arrest students could be charged with Shortly thereafter, Presidentelect Allan Lubel told the group that he was trying to arrange a meeting with Dr. Stanford to get a tuition rollback or release of the budget
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From Jail Late Wednesday Night
Bv ISIDRO GARCIA
Ntwt Editor
USBG President Susan Havey and Vice President-elect Pat Woodward were released from jail on $500 bail late Wednesday night after arrest by Coral Gables police for leading the occupation of the Ashe Administration Bldg. The official charge is tresspassing.
Thirteen male students were taken to the Male Correctional facility and one of three students claiming to represent the Student Rights Agency was allowed into the facility. They said they only wanted to bail their friends out, and had no actual connection to the Agency.
On the other side of town, at the Women's Annex, close to 17 female students, including Havey and Woodward, were being processed while a small group of students waited expectantly outside with ba-ilbondsman Joel Whitice Whitice waited to enter and post bond to release the students.
Whitice said he tried to talk with
Gables police to have the students assessed a citation instead of being charged and kept under custody, however, "It was too late” by the time he tried to implement his plan.
The students who occuppied the building could face expulsion, but it was doubted that the University would proceed with this because of the number of the students involved and the indiscriminate arrests made by the police.
There were scattered reports that
the administration would destroy the files of all the students arrested, but this seemed unlikely
While all the female students chose to post bond and leave the jail, the male students decided to stay in jail and went to court yesterday morning for a hearing
It was not clear what their motive was, but some speculated that they were seeking to force the University into making a greater com-
Arrested Wait For University's Decision
Of the 31 students arrested, all 14 women were bailed out of jail by 1:30 Thursday morning Ten men chose to remain in jail until nearly noon the same day.
The University has several courses of action it could take. The stu-
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•	UM President Henry King Stanford explains efforts to meet students, page o
•	(T/iv students protest, page ft
•	A chart of budget changes, page ()
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mitment than it made when local police were called in to have the students arrested
Woodward was the first to emerge from the jail She smiled wearily, but described the "process" of arrest vividly.
"We were frisked, stripped, printed and then photographed. They searched for things in our vaginal and anal areas, and put us into dirty cells," she said.
“People still inside are tired, but feel an increased sense ol solidarity They realize the type of administration we have to deal with One that will let its students be arrested,” she said
When Havey emerged, she asked where Student Rights Director David Abrams was She was told that he was at the male stockade
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dents can be charged with violation of public law and/or violation of University policy.
If they are charged with violation of public law, they must go to court. If they are found guilty, they would be channeled to UM’s Student Judicial Office for diciplinary action
If they are not found guilty and aren’t charged with violating a University policy, UM cannot take action against them
If they are charged with violating UM policy, they go into hearings
If they plead not guilty, they will go before law professor emeritus, George Pickar If he determines them to be guilty, they will be sent to the Student Judicial Office for action
If they plead guilty they will be immediately sent to the Judicial Office for mitigation The University’s decision on what route to take against the students was not available at presstime
If found guilty students face max-imumtpenalty of expulsion.
canon may continue to ne accession1 to them These problems at the t Diversity are compounded by the fact that undergraduate enrollment remains relatively static. This means that our ability to generate additional revenue from enrollment increases is limited.
I had three objectives in the pre-paratoion of the 1977 78 operating budget I he first objective was to provide increased funds for enrichment and expansion of our academic programs at the Coral Gables campus and thr- Medical School campus I he increased funding
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