Wednesdoy, October 23, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Wednsday Ocober23,1968THE ICHGAN AIL ..I YY YL YIf .... Berkeley's schools integrate without incident BERKELEY, Calif. WP) - The total racial integration of this city's public schools has appar- ently passed its major hurdles. Berkeley has succeeded, with- out incident, where experimental programs in New York and other cities have failed. Accord- ing to school Supt. Neil V. Sul- livan, who presided over the program since its inception, it has exceeded all expectations. The switchover has not been accomiplished without its share ground battles between Negro A/ 6f problems, including play- of ground battles between Ne- gro problems, including play- takes at the administrative end. It is the first complete public school desegragation . in a U.S. city of over 100,000 population. Berkeley's secondary schools were desegragated four ,years ago. Last Sept. 10, the job was completed in the kindergarten through the sixth grade of 3.- 300 pupils in 16 schools by a unique busing system. The grade school children each weekday wait for buses on 342 42 corners throughout this city of 120,000 across the bay from San Francisco. Children from kindergarten through the third grade, desig- nated as K-3, all attend schools in the mostly white Berkeley hills, with the Negro youngsters being bused up from the flat- lands. From grades 4-6, the pupils are bused down to the flatlands schools heretofore attended mostly by Negroes., Berkeley's school population is about 50 per cent Caucasian. 41 per cent Negro and 9 per cent Oriental and other groups. The classroom ratios of Ne- groe and other minority pupils to whites were figured out by computers and reported to have worked out well - except at a tiny 200-pupil school called Hillside Primary in a largely white district. The K-3 school, said Berkeley school research and publications director Dan K. Freudenthal, right off had "bad behavior" pu- pils with a history of trouble. "They apparently couldn't stand so much sitting in a class- room," he said. "Don't forget, there is much anger in the com- munities." The trouble, he said, amount- ed to some Negro children smacking the white youngsters, with much of the blame to be put on the small size of the playground. Sullivan put it: " . . . It was a damned neighborhood school that was altogether too small and should have been closed 15 years ago. Here's a situation in which the computer didn't work and we ended up with a school that wasn't racially bal- anced, either its faculty or its student body. "The school was overloaded with black children-about 60 per cent-but did not have a s i n g le Negro teacher. This should not have occurred. "The playground was as big as a postage stamp and there wasn't a male adult in the entire building." He said the situation was cleared up through use of a "black aide from the inner city," an unlettered N e g r o woman whose compassion and native intelligence made her "one of the greatest teachers I've ever known." Hillside Primary wasn't the only school that had trouble, but in all of them immediate and pointed measures were taken to try for cures. "We're having fewer and few- er fights," said Miss Glena Cru- mal, principal of Columbus School, grades 4-6, in a Negro district. "Some Negro youngsters have resisted white youngsters com- ing into the school. They feel it's their school." She adds that it takes time to change atti- tudes. One classroom display at Co- lumbus is a collage of cutouts of black hands and white hands, clasped together or-reaching for each other. On it is a quotation from' the assassinated Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr.: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." The city of Berkeley spent $530,290 for the integration pro- gram - training teachers; mov- ing books, furniture and equip- ment; renovation and installa- tion in classrooms and other .: units;meeting firm safety re- quirements, and transportation. INDIANA CAMPAIGN: -Associated Press The heritage of school integration "An Exuberant Comic Fantasy... 'Cock-a-doodle'f has a lift!"-Detroit News "Looney and Larky"-Detroit Free Press Republican RucKelshaus seeks to unseat Bayhi in Senate, race -!. - " * I Sean OCasey Directed by Jack O'Brien Music by Bob James By IRWIN J. MILLER INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. ()-The name is Ruckelshaus, and the owner is trying to make it enough of a household word in Indiana to derail Sen. Birch Bayh's run for a second term. William D. Ruckelshaus, a 36- year-old state legislator from In- dianapolis, went to work on the name immediately after theRe- publican State Convention nom- inated him in June. He joked about it by extending the name out beyond the edge of billboards, emphasizing its length. One of his slogans is "vote the long name." And his campaigners are fond of printing the name in two colors -RUCKELSHA in red, the US in blue. Polls sponsored by the Repub- licans themselves, and made pub- lic by the Republicans, show Ruckelshaus running well behind Bayh. Bayh, 40, a friend of the Ken- nedy family, got campaign help Oct. 2 from Joan Kennedy, wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Mrs. Kennedy Joined Bayh's wife, Marvella, In an all-day swing through several of the state's largest cities. Bayh's chance's are clouded by he presidential candidacies of Republican Richard M. Nixon and independent George C. Wallace. : Wallace carried Lake County, the populous East Chicago.Gary- Hammnond area, in the 1964 Demo- cratic presidential primary and could cut heavily into the Demo- crtic vote there this year. In 1962 Bayh carried Lake Coun- ! ty by 37,326 votes in beating three- term Republican incumbent Homer (E. Capehart, but his statewide inargin was only 10,994, Bayh's people figure that his 'principal problem is how to coun- -7 the news today ) The Associated Press and College Press Service APOLLO 7 returned to earth yesterday concluding what officials called "a perfect mission." The 11-day flight, which ended in the Atlantic Ocean only a third of a mile from target, was a key stage in U.S. plans for a moon shot. Physicians for the three-man crew reported them "in really good spirits and in good shape." The crew received congratulations from President John- son, Vice President Humphrey and UN Secretary-General U Thant. NORTH VIETNAMESE AND VIET CONG FORCES may have begun a new series of attacks on U.S. military installations. Shelling of the U.S. 3rd Marine Division headquarters resumed yesterday for the first time in two months. This was the third shelling of a U.S. headquarters in as many days. Meanwhile, a statement yesterday by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu was viewed in Washington as a success for the United States in persuading him to relax his opposition to a bombing halt. Thieu said he would not oppose a bombing halt if there was "good reason to believe" Hanoi would reciprocate. Only Saturday he said the main problem is "to stop the war, not stop the bombing." MEDIATION EFFORTS COLLAPSED yesterday in' New York City's teachers' strike. The city's 1.1 million public school students spent their 18th day out of classes. Meanwhile, the police slowdown which has plagued the city continued, and, firemen threatened to contribute to the crisis by slowing their operations as well. The teachers are demanding the re-instatement of 80 white teachers ousted last spring from the black and Puerto Rican Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district in Brooklyn. The district was part of the city's plan for decen- tralization of the school system. The policemen and firemen are seeking increased con- tract benefits. The rash of strikes which has hit New York also extended into the United Nations yesterday as a walkout by two-thirds of the 150-man guard force compelled diplomats to open their own car doors. PRESIDENT JOHNSON signed a new gun control bill into law yesterday. The new legislation'is the most comprehensive bill of its kind in 30 years, butJohnson said it falls short of what is needed for effective crime control. The law bans the mail order sale of rifles, shotguns and ammunition, but lacks two features the President asked Con- gress to .include - registration of weapons and licensing 'of owners. Passage of the gun control bill was spurred by the assas- sinations of Sen. Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King last spring. LT. CMDR. MARCUS ARNHEITER has failed in fed- eral court to regain his command. Arnheiter was releived of command of a U.S. destroyer stationed off Vietnam in 1966. Iis superiors said there were complaints of irregular practices and allegations that he had broken Naval regulations. Since 'then he has lost in a series of attempts inside and outside the Naval chain of command to regain his post, After yesterday's defeat, the commander plans to take the ffght to the Supreme Court. SHELLING BROKE OUT across the- Jordan River yesterday. The Israeli army accused'the Jordanians of opening up -with artillery on the settlement of Gesher, just south of the biblical Lake of Galilee. Other light arms clashes across the country were reported. Meanwhile, in Jenin, a portion of Israeli-held Jordan, some 100 Arab women and school teachers clashed with po- lice. They were protesting an Israeli plan to build a Jewish suburb alongside the town of Hebron on the west bank of the Jordan River. KEY EVIDENCE in the trial of Sirhan Sirhan was ruled admissable in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday. Sirhan is charged with murdering Sen. Robert Kennedy last June. The evidence in question - papers reported to be in the ! defendant's handwriting and other items - were taken from Sirhan's home after the shooting. The court ruled police were within bounds when they searched the house without a warrant because the defendant's brother had given them permission. The evidence is considered important to the prosecutor's case. . 0 0 SOME 200 STUDENTS began a sit-in at the Univer- sity of California's Berkeley campus yesterday. The demonstration was called to- protest the denial of credit for a course on racism with *llack Panther Eldridge Cleaver. The sit-in began just after Cleaver completed his third in a series of lectures. 'If you think this is worthwhile," he told students, "then -do your thing." At their meeting last:week, the California Regents post- poned action on a proposal to offer credit for Cleaver's course. FRAINCOIS MITTEBIRAND I Ruckelshaus Sen. Bayh I_ 'teract a probable big margin for Nixon in the state. Nixon carried Indiana by 222,762 (votes over John F. Kennedy in' (1960. He was far ahead of the (GOP state ticket. This year Nixon ,collected 508,362 votes in the presidential primary, running un- opposed. Politicians of both parties, par- ticuarly the Democrats, are con- cerned about how many Wallace ,supports may simply vote Wallace for President and not bother to ,vote for either state ticket. :Ruckelshaus, besides being less 'well-known, may be facing some 'religious opposition in rural areas. He is a Roman Catholic and Bayh pis a Methodist. Ruckelshaus has been accusing ?Bayh of being on both sides of many issues and of talking econo- +my in Indiana while voting spend- 'ing in Washington. Bayh is paying little attention 'to the national Democratic ticket and is listing public works pro- j ects of benefit to Indiana which he worked for. Both take a "peace with hon- or" position on Vietnam but Bayh -said Sept. 21 the United States could stop bombing North Viet- nam without conditioning the halt on a, response by the other side, "It's worth a try," he said. ?Ruckelshaus has said there should tbe some assurance tlat a bombing 'halt would not be used for further 'buildups in the North. Bayh is a lawyer, farmer for- Iner speaker and minority leader of the Indiana House. Ruckelshaus is a lawyer who 'was chosen majority leader of the Indiana House in his first legis- 2 EXCITING NEW PLAYS! An imaginative and provocative new play by the author of *Blackboard Jungle" 11 THE WORLD PREMIERE OF EVAN HUNTER MON., FEB. 3-SAT., FEB. 8 TONIGHT & EVERY WEDNESDAY at A HOOT An evening of endless musical variety-This time with SONG CATEGORY CONTEMP-Come and do your thing! 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