Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, September 7, 1968 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Welfare rights supporters face trespass c arges ' ashtenaw County Deputies confront welfare sympathizers LOCAL GROUP (Continued from Page 1) had nothing to do with the use of the North Campus building to billet police. University President Robben W. Fleming also said he did not know the building was being used to house police. Welfare recipients and their supporters were protesting the failure of the County Board of Supervisors and the County Ways and Means Committee (WMC) to increase allocations for children's school clothes. The demonstrators returned yes- terday expecting to meet again with the supervisors. But the sup- ervisors said they had made no such promise and no meeting was held. At the request of the welfare mothel-s, the students, led by Eric Chester, chairman of New Politics, and Bruce Levine, SGC adminis- trative vice president, occupied the corridors of the County Bldg. after a march from the noon rally on the diag. At 2:30 p.m. Chester, Levine, Fred LaBour, who were later ar- rested, and Michael Davis and Sharon Lowen of SGC, met with T Washtenaw County Sheriff Doug- las Harvey and Washtenaw Coun- ty Prosecuting Attorney William S. Delhey. Harvey informed them that they would have to leave the building or he would have it cleared. From 2:45 to 3:15 p.m. Chester chaired a discussion among the protesters whether to stay inside and face arrest or to picket peace- fully around the building. During the discussion two con- flicting statements from Mrs. Shirley Haywood, spokesman for the welfare recipients, were an- nounced. Chester said she had told him earlier she "didn't want any students hurt or arrested." However, Levine said Mrs. Hay- wood had answered affirmatively to his question whether the stu- dents should sit-in. The students then decided to leave the building and by 3:30 p.m. the building had been effec- tively cleared. Shortly after, how- ever, Sannie Hampton and May Easely, welfare recipients, ad- dressed a group of students out- side and appealed to them to sit- in. Within minutes the first of 200 people began returning to the building intending to be arrested. They sat in two large groups in the lob'by. The second floor of the building was cleared earlier and remailied clear for the rest of the* day fol- ing a report from Harvey that the three circuit court judges- James Breakey, William Agar, andF John Conlin-had issued an order prohibiting sitting-in. Harvey said violators would be held in con- tempt of court. Delhey said later that no such order had been issued. At 3:50 Harvey announced he would begin clearing the building before the 5:30 closing. However, no action was taken. It was explained to the crowd that those arrested before 5:30 would be charged with contention -disrupting the normal opera- tions of the County Bldg.-or dis- orderly conduct. Those arrested after the 5:30 closing of the building would be charged with trespassing. Staudenmaier explained that: the arrests would probably not be made until after 5:30 because the trespass charge is much easier to prove than the disorderly conduct: or contention charges. Ann Arbor Chief of Police Wal- ter Krasny concurred and added that they also wanted to avoid disrupting circuit court proceed- ings which would be going on un- til 5:30. After 4 p.m. two Washtenaw County deputies with rifles-a few observers claimed they were M- 16's, which Harvey ordered some time ago-were stationed on the roof of the county jail, across Main St. from the County Bldg. Harvey said they were there to deal with snipers. At 5:20 a last attempt by Robert Harrison, chairman of the county supervisors, to avert the arrests by compromising with the welfare' mothers failed. Before the arrests began, a filet of 14 tactical police armed with shotguns marched south on Main St. with a police dog and then east on Ann St., and lined-up facing the building. A few minutes lacer three sher- iff's busses pulled in front of the building as a double file of the mixed police force began march- ing over the same path the Oak- latd deputies had taken. The lat- ter headed into the building mo- ments later. At 5:30, Delhey read the follow- ing statement to the crowd in the lobby: NATONAL GENERAL C HE H L X OVE R 111 OVER 375 No. MAPLE R 20th Century-Fox pr "THE SECRET L C AN AMERICAN SCOLOR BY DELUXE "This building is now officially closed. You are ordered to leave. You have five minutes. After five minutes those here will be ar-* jested on tiespass charges." No one left. About ten minutes later a mixed force of Washtenaw County she: iff's deputies and po- lice from Dexter, Milan and Saline fi'ed in and be-an dragging and esco ting students from the build- ing No Ann At bor oolice were in- volved in the arrests. Most of the first persons re- moved did not struggle. Of the 182 three fought back, were each subdued forcefully and carried out by four or five officers. For the most part the officers'* seemed to avoid excessive force. Excess force was consistently used, however, against those who showed any symbolic resistance, such as forming a "V" with their first two fingers. As two police men struggled with, one man near the end of * the arrests, a student still to be arrested shouted, "Kill the pigs!" An unidentified officer imme- diately grabbed him from behind with a riot stick pressed across his throat. Four more officers thengrabbed him, and he was carried out.# After the building had- been closed and sealed off by deputies, Harvey turned to clearing a crowd of well over 1,000 people inr front of the building which was over- flowing the intersection at Main and Ann streets. The officers- mostly Washtenaw deputies --4 formed shoulder-to-shoulder bar- ricades on three sides of the 'building. The deputies were armed with three-foot riot sticks and many were carrying riflesrand shotguns. Two police dogs were kept in the area. At one point, the 14 Tactical Mobile Force members pointed their guns at a segment of the crowd close to the County Bldg. entrance after Harvey told the people to move back. The officers and deputies had left the area by 6 p.m., entering the County Bldg. and emerging from the Ann St. exit. School grooms future college executives By DAVID SPURR Student radicals on campus have expressed fear that the recent appoint- ments of top University officials with backgrounds in labor-mediation and "big government" heralds the advent of a new breed of administration - the wheeler-dealer concerned less with the University as an academic institution than as a big business. But very few of those who are involved in a university institution called the Cen- ter for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) have such a fear. Founded by a former president of An- tioch College and now headed by one of its own alumni, the CSHE grooms a select bunch of top-caliber students for high administrative positions in, colleges and universities. James L. Miller, Jr., director of the CSHE, feels, "The university today is every bit as complex as a large govern- mental unit. The administrator has to make the organization responsive to a certain set of values-academic freedom, the search for knowledge, the importance of educational enterprise-and this re- quiies certain managerial skills. "To have an' administration with those skills and without those values is to have a Frankenstein." The atmospheTre at the CHSE is in- formal. The stddents have varied back- grounds and a multitude of different rea- sons for enrolling. They take courses like, "Education and Nation-Building," and, "Philosophy of Education." In the afternoons many of them con- gregate for bull sessions' over coffee at their "Corner House," across the street from the Center's headquarters in a bank building on South University. There are Tuesday Evening Seminars at Metzger's, too. At one of these bull sessions a gradu- ate in biology is quite likely to be found arguing about the Columbia student re- bellion with a Harvard dean. It is im- possible to label the institution as radical or conservative in thought because its students and faculty represent such a wide range of interests. Bill Lombus, in his middle thirties, is one of the CSHE's younger students. An Antioch graduate with a master's in medieval history from Notre Dame, he came to Ann Arbor dissatisfied with what he called the "lack of perspective, the restrictiveness, and the inflexibility" of most university administrations. Another student, Tom Maher, who holds a master's in Public Health, ex- presses "basic dissatisfaction with the undergraduate process. We at the Uni- versity graduate a lot of people who are anti-intellectual and intolerant in their attitudes." The CSHE, with its informal discus- sions and flexible curriculum (each stu- dent's curriculum is worked out to fit his own needs-no two are the same), may well serve as a microcosmic model for the University. The Center is par- ticularly proud of its Student Advisory Board, which after only two years of existence has already proved itself power- ful in the selection and evaluation of faculty members. Set up in 1958 with Carnegie Corpora- tion funds, along with two other similar centers at Berkeley and Columbia, the CSHE has differed from those two coun- terparts by placing much more emphasis on teaching than on research. Since then it has grown every year, and now has about 125 full and part- time students. Many of the students are deans or administrative assistants from other colleges and universities, and most of them are placed into top administra- tive posts when they matriculate. "We emphasize the understanding of complex organizations," Miller said. "The old practice of simply placing the chair- man of the English department in an administrative position just won't do." 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