Page Si 'THE MICHIGAN DAILY Fridoy, March 27, 1 970 Page Si~c 'THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, March 27, 1970 'U' LIBRARIES TRASHED Protests, disruptions continue AFSCME backs BAM (Continued from page f) not get in and linked together if the individual tried to force his way in. The group left the LSA build- ing a few minutes after 10 a.m. and moved on to the Business Administration Bldg. University security officials showed up at the LSA Bldg. the same time the demonstrators left. When the crowd swarmed into the Business Administration Bldg., they found a group of students from the Coalition to Support BAM already there. The coalition group had set up an informational table and had been attempting to talk to business administration classes. Regarding the success of these classroom raps, a coalition "build- ing captain" said, "This place is hopeless." One black speaker announced, "There are people upstairs who have locked themselves into class- rooms. We are going to have to show them that classes are not going on as usual." 'At 10:30 a.m. a large number of students moved upstairs to the third floor' and proceeded to pound on the locked doors of class- rooms in time to a rhythm beated out on waste baskets and metal upright ashtrays. The noise was powerful and tremendous. Eventually the mass of the strikers settled into the lobby of' the building and set up an "alga- mated r h y t h m section with chorus." Barbara Newell, acting vice president for student affairs, was moving through the crowd talking with BAM leaders and other peor ple around this time. After hearing a professor from the Law School speak about the Law School's special attempts to i n c r e a s e minority.. admissions, BAM Leader Edwin Fabre spoke. He talked about an Engineer- ing College's program that will bring at least 10 per cent black enrollment to that college by 1971-72. He talked about th' day's pro- test actions. "Again, I don't think that it is a question of losing what we have," Fabre said, referring to the increased militancy of the strike. "Nothing minus nothing is noth- "ng ." A little later in the rally, Fabre said that BAM leadership plans to meet with Fleming and the Ex- ecutive Officers at 1 p.m. and that the crowd should wait at a rally in the Law Quad until an announcement could be made about the outcome of that meet- ing. "If we can't say at 1:45 that there has been progress, then we're going to shut this place down," he concluded. Some of the crowd, directed to go to Hutchins Hall, went there immediately and stayed while others broke for lunch. Tht activities at Hutchins Hail began about 12:10 p.m. and con- Strikers to picket dorm emp oyes (Continued from page 1) negotiations with Fleming would' begin today. "We've made a point that can- not be turned away from," said Fabre, estimating the success of the class strike. Fabre predicted at the meeting that food service workers in the residence halls, and other mem- bers of AFSCME "won't cross the picket lines tomorrow." He said the success of the picketing was important in determining whether the strike, now in its sixth day,' will continue. "We need a lot of people (to picket) the plant department," Fabre said, "That's what makes the University run." The picketing will begin this morning at 5 a.m. at residence halls and other University build- ings which employ food service workers. It was unclear when the picketing of the. plant department would begin. There will be another meeting at 5 p.m. in the Union ballroom: today to discuss future strike tac- tics. Summer in Cleveland Undergraduate and grad- uate students can earn up to 9 semester hours of credit during the seven- week term at Case West- ern Reserve University (June 22-Aug. 7). For fuirther informatin. sisted of a panel that discussed the BAM demands and the strike with law students. Before the forum was over, over 20 law students pledged to work for the strike. BAM leadership came in at 1:40 p.m. to announce the outcome of the meeting with Fleming. Madison Foster, a black faculty member, explained to the crowd that both BAM and the adminis- tration agreed that the present funding would not meet the 10 per cent enrollment goal set by the Regnts. He said that BAM had asked for a public statement from Fleming saying the 10 per cent goal is "misleading." The crowd then became more animated. Beating on walls, doors, waste baskets, pounding their feet and clapping their hands, about 300 people moved through the Law Quad disrupting many class- es. In room 150, a large lecture hall, demonstrators danced on tables while those law students who did not leave sat in chairs and watched. Someone scribbled on the black- board, "W are talking language you understand. All power to the people." In moving through the Law Quad, demonstrators broke a few windows and attempted to destroy two plaques on the wall. Some law students stood by in protec- tion of anything that might get easily broken. Part of the group - moved throughout the building, including the Law Library. By 2:45 p.m. the remaining demonstrators decided to join those that left a few minutes be- fore and go to West Quad. The bulk of the group marched through the main lobby of West Quad and rallied in front of the Administration Bldg. in a driving blizzard of snow. Funding *plan expected today from Fleming (Continued from page 1) meet with him to negotiate the BAM demands "one by one." At a subsequent 1 p.m. meeting. the BAM leaders told Fleming they wanted him to issue a state- ment delineating the University position on the admissions de- mand. BAM proposed a three-para- graph statement for Fleming to sign, or use as a model for his own statement, including an admission by the University that the regental action on black enrollment was misleading. It blamed "confusion" on varying interpretations of statement made by University of- ficials. It would have committed the University to raising the bal- ance of necessary money to sup- port the 10 per cent enrollment goal.. Fleming declined to sign that statement at the meeting, but promised he would attempt to draft something acceptable to both sides. The meeting then broke up. BAM leaders went back to the Law Quad to wait for a statement, and Fleming went to the Admin- istration Bldg. to work on a draft. He did not finish a statement be- fore it was time for him to leave for his secret meeting with the Regents. We're in debt to wars, floods, health services, life-saving and blood banks. fus- help The Amercan Red Goss odv~rnising ooftrit.,,,d forth.,pubtle good Fabre announced that BAM leadership was going to meet, and that one certain individual would give orders till they heard other- wise. He then read a letter marked "confidential" which, he said was from Prof. C. G. Overberger, chairman of the chemistry de- partment, which said that if dem- onstrators came to disrupt classes in the Chemistry Bldg. that teach- ers should not attempt to do any- thing beyond identifying people. They should "keep a smile" on their faces, and "enjoy the circus," Fabre claimed the letter said. Fabre said, "There is a ques- tion here, wether people should take the circus to places like the Chemistry Building." The crowd soon thereafter head- ed to the Chemistry Building. Leaving Regent's Plaza at 3:00 p.m., the crowd moved f i r s t through the LSA Bldg. lobby, then through Angell Hall to the Fish- bowl and then through Mason Hall to the Chemistry Building. Splitting into two groups, the demonstrators moved through the building disrupting classes and labs. Although one window was broken, demonstrators did not has- sle people physically and leaders kept the demonstrators-'from trash- ing laboratories. The fire alarm went off and on as the demonstrators moved through the building. It was es- sentially the same type of noise disruption as had taken place in the Law Quad. About 3:35 p.m. the demon- strators left the building. Re- grouping outside, they talked and chanted "BAM, BAM, BAM BAM BAM." A little before 4 p.m. t h e group moved into the Natural Resources bldg. to get warm, and soon there- after decided to go home until the mass meeting in the union that evening. After the incident at the Law Quad, which some observers ap- parently believed brought the de- monstrations to the brink of vio- lence, Ann Arbor Police Deputy Chief Harold Olsen called for as- sistence to the State Police. At least 15 squad cars and an un- determined number of state troop- ers moved quickly into Ann Ar- bor, gathering at city hall. " (Continued from page 1) the central budgeting process of the University, however. The faculty of the Philosophy department not only supported both parts of the SACUA resolu- tion, but called on the dean of the literary college to implement the SACUA motion and affirmed the department's intention to step up recruitment of black graduate stu- dents. In an effort to increase Univer- sity staff support of the BAM de- mands, the black faculty members yesterday called an informational meeting of all faculty, staff and University personnel at noon to- day in Rackham auditorium. "Ignorance can no longer be your excuse," read the notice of the meeting. On Wednesday, the staff mem- bers of the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution voted over- whelmingly to go on strike in sup- port of the BAM demands. Staff members remained available yes- terday to work on BAM and other related activities. Also in response to recent events, Engineering college Dean Gordon Van Wylen released a memoran- dum to faculty and students of the college outlining what the college had done recently to increase black representation in the college. T h e memorandum, released after a meeting between Van Wyl- en and black engineering students, also said "the executive commit- tee of the college, jointly with the Black Engineering Society, had made a commitment to intensively seek out prospective black students for admission at the freshman, transfer, and graduate level, so that in the fall of 1971 ten per cent of all new admissions will be black students." As a result of the statement, a BAM spokesman yesterday refused to lead demonstrators to the en- gineering college to trash the building. In addition, a petition agreeing with and pledging support for the BAM demands was signed yester- day by 64 students and staff mem- bers of the engineering college. A similar petition was signed yesterday by 120 students and fac- ulty of the School of Architecture and Design who said the "informal nature of most study courses would make a strike largely in- visible as a political action. How- " ever, the signers emphasized that they were striking in addition tos signing the petition.t Radical College also yesterday1 unanimously urged "all studentsk ad faculty in all schools and de-t partments to meet at once to as-t sess on their own salaries and de-t partmental budgets a graduatedt tax to provide funds for meetingt the University's 10 per cent com- mitment to black student enroll-C ment. In addition, members of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity visited all fraternities and sororities yester- day and collected approximately 700 signatures in support of the BAM demands. The fraternity members hope to present the sig- natures to the Regents today. Not all action taken yesterday was favorable to the strike. Resi- dential College students and fac- ulty who call themselves "Non- strikers for BAM" circulated a petition which said ". . . the edu- cational demands of the Black Ac- tion Movment deserve reconsider- ation and a commitment by the Regents of the University." But the statement continued, "We fear the University commu-I nity will lose sight of the validity of BAM demands because of the intolerant action of some BAM supporters which are depriving in- dividuals of the right to make their own decisions on this matter." In addition, Young Americans for Freedom yesterday released a statement calling for the resigna- tion of University President Rob- ben Fleming. "For the past week the Univer- sity of Michigan has witnessed a most disgraceful display of hoolig- anism," the statement said. "The issue here is not whether the de- mands of Black students are legi- timate. The issue here is the force and violence which have been al- lowed to go unchecked, spawning widespread fear and anxiety with- in the academic community." The Fabulous 1TEOTTEDS. MAGICIA AS OF- - : ; ; r -t MON., APR. 6-7:30 U-M CRISLER ARENA added attraction: GINNY TIU REVUE tickets $4-3-2 discount for kids on sale U.M. Athletic Dept. 1000 S. State St. 662-3238 demands tiLANTERN GALLERY "The blame for this intolerable Ruth Weisberg state of affairs can be directly at- tributed to President Fleming who I Homag e to Che has exhibited a total lack of any b backbone," the statement con-. "The Dead Che," etching, 9" x 13V2 tinued. "If President Fleming can- "depositio," etching, 16" x 19" not fulfill his function of keeping the University running smoothly. 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