Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, October 16, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, October 16, 1969 'a Women sit in at Ann Arbor draft O ice By SHARON WEINER Members of women's liberation groups yesterday sat in at the Ann Arbor draft board for three hours protesting the Vietnam war. About 30 women, chanting slogans, passed leaflets throughout the building and talked with the employes. The leaflets called for the members of the draft board to "adopt a policy of non-cooperation with the selective service system," and demanded a strike by the members of the board. The group talked with Detective Lt. Eugene Staudenmeier of the Ann Arbor police. Staudenmeier later said the group swas not creating a disruption. -Daily--Jay Cassidy Regents to meet today nCorn inud i iffm Page 1) Wright adds that the Univer- sity should seek a formal ruling from the revenu° commissioner to determine whether the books are, in fact, tax exempt. Meanwhile, the Regents them- selves seem unsure what to make of the newest bookstore propos- al. Most admit they have not had much opportunity to study the product of student-faculty-adinin- istration negotiations. And it seems likely that the vote will rem in split at this meeting much as it did at the last meet - ing, when a University discount store was endorsed in principle by a 5-2 vote. Regents William Cudlip (R- irosse Pointed, who was not pre- ent at the last meeting, Robert Brown (R-Kalamazoo) and Paul Goebel i R-Grand Rapids', a r e still unalterably opposed to es- tablishing a diecount bookstore. But Regents Otis Smith (R-De- troit) and Robert Nederlander 'D- Birmingham, another bookstore supporter, both point out that they remain open to any new pro- posal on the question and both say they are willing to consider a new compronis?. But one drawback of the new proposal is that. it has failed to secure strong backing from Pres- ident Robben Fleming. Although Fleming has met with student and faculty drafters of the proposal. he has not publicly committed himself to supporting it. And this could be important. Most Regents value the presi- dent's opinion and are influenced by what he thinks. "Our presence there effectively disrupted the functioning of that office," said Randall Clarke, '72.! "We were continually singing and marching in the hall.'' The leaflet passed to the em- ployes of the draft board begins,, "We as women join this national day of protest against the war in Vietnam. We believe it is impor- tant for women to demonstrate as a group because women have never assumed a decisive political role in American society. The statement calls for women to refuse "to cooperate, on all levels with a war effort that seeks to deny to other peoples the right to form their own political and personal identities. The draft is one highly visible part of that war effort." Before picketing the d r a f t' board, the group picketed the Ad-: ministration Bldg. protesting a statement issued by the Office of Academic Affairs which allows academic staff to strike without loss of pay but no non-academic staff. "The majority of non-academic personnel on the campus are' women," explained Miss Clarke. "Women are effectively discour- aged from political expresison," the leaflet distributed in the Ad- ministration Bldg. stated. "We have little opportunity to control our lives and to affect decisions which intimately affect us. In this society, represented here by the University, women are considered slaves or children with no opin- ion or knowledge about the Viet- nam war, or about the possibility of understanding and improving their situation as women in this oppressive society." "This is the first time Ann Ar- bor women have taken political action as a cohesive group," said Miss Clarke. Rally goers cheer for peace Million across nation protest U.S. involvement in Vietnam Students o)serve strike (Continued from Page 1) "Let us not disband in celebra- tion when the Vietnam war ends," warned Hart. "We must stay to- gether to do something even more important-we must stay together so we can stop pouring an incred- ible amount into the Pentagon and stop our incredible indifference to the rest." There was a brief disturbance when a man from the audience interrupted Hayden's speech. The man resisted the efforts of plain- clothes p~olicemen to restrain him. Parts of the audience shouted, "Let him speak," while others shouted Hayden to continue. The man spit on Hayden and said af- terwards he considered Hayden a murderer because he was encour- aging the North Vietnamese in their killing of American soldiers. "Tonight marks a turning point for all those interested in a new social order in this country," said Conyers. He urged students to "flex your political muscle" and promised to vote against all authorizations for military procurement until nation- al priorities w e 1' e reordered. "Where is your Congressman to- night?" asked Conyers. "Vietnam is a symptom of a diseased foreign policy" said Rep. Craig. "Our momentum must be used to see that our foreign policy of military adventurism ends. The task is up to you." he said. Young called the moratorium "the greatest demonstration for peace in the history of America." "It is you, the youth of Amer- ica," said Young, who have been responsible for whatever moral direction and integrity this coun- try has maintained." New Mobe organizer Gene Glad- stone warned of attrinpts to co-opt the anti-war movement. -Our cause is the immediate withdrawal from all American troops from bases all over this world," he said. New Mobe co-chairman Douglas Doud urged students to commit themselves to a long struggle to change America. "We've embarked on a life-long fight to change this system," said Doud. "There's been too much talk about Vietnam as if it was divorced from the system as a whole. Viet- nam is the sort of thing this coun- try has to do to stay the way it is." The audience displayed the greatest enthusiasm for the SRC, a local rock group. L __.- ___._._ _.-___ _ .. _. _. _.. ...._. _... .._ . "_ r SIVDLNWTS CREDIT UNION ASSETS: $130,000 MEMBERS: 975 STU ENT LOANS MAXIMUM: $1,000 WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR! WHY WASTE TIME (LEANING! We Can Do It Quicker and Better =QUALITYCLEANING ~AMPLE PARKING OPEN 7 A.M. to 6 P.M. EUREKA CLEANERS 308 N. MarieSt. (Continued from Page 1) to hear Mrs. Martin Luther King condemn the war. "We spend billions of dollars for destruction in Vietnam," sheI said, "but we refuse to recognize3 the necessity for life at home." She said the war has destroyed the hopes of black and poor Americans. After her speech, the protesters marched four and five abreast in a candlelight parade up Pennsyl- vania Avenue to the White House. In front of the mansion, Mrs. King lighted a foot-high candle. The procession was orderly and the marchers obeyed traffic sig- nals and police instructions. In Detroit, mounted police were called to unsnarl traffic and con- tain a crowd of about 5,000 drawn to Kennedy Square for a pro- test. Some scattered incidents of violence broke out when a mili- tant right-wing organization, Breaktllrough, ioved in for a counter-demonstration. In New York City, Mayor John Lindsay, who had proclaimed the day a day of mourning, ordered the flags flown at half-mast. He was ch'gyred as he told a Green- wich Village crowd that the Nixon administration was on a "dan- gerous, self-defeating course." Lindsay was attacked for his actions by his two opponents in the city's mayoral race. Republi- can candidate John Marchi call- ed Lindsay's proclamation "a New York version of Dunkirk." Demo- crat Mario Procaccino called it "ill-advised." More than 10,000 persons jam- med the Wall Street area for a demonstration which included the reading of a -list of names of the American soldiers killed in the war. Bill Moyers, press secretary to former President Lyndon B. John- son and now publisher of the Long Island newspaper Newsday, called the moratorium a "coming to- gether, at last, against the divis- iveness that has riddled us since the advent of the war." In Chicago, where the 'Chicago 8' are being prosecuted for their actions in last year's Democratic convention demonstrations, Fed- eral Judge Julius Hoffman a n d marshals thwarted attempts by the defendants, except for T o in Hayden, to commemorate t h e day. The defendants appeared in court wearing black armbands and one of them began reading a roster of the war-dead, but was stopped. Hayden, national founder of Students for a Democratic So- ciety, last night spoke at the sta- dium rally in Ann Arbor. Defendant D a v i d Dellinger jumped to his feet later in the proceedings and asked for a mo- ment of silence in respect for the war dead, but was shouted down by the prosecution attorney and the judge. In St. Paul, Minn.. former Vice, President Hubert Humphrey at- tended a moratorium rally at Macalester College, where he teaches part-time. He did not speak, but listened to Prof. Thomas Grissom call the U.S. gov- ernment "the primary obstacle to peace in the world." Sen. Eugene McCarthy +D- Minn) , who sought the presi- dential nomination last year as an anti-war candidate, spoke to 10 000 persons at Rutgers Uni- versity, New Brunswick, N.J. McCarthy declared that al- though Nixon might hold military withdrawal from Vietnam to be a disaster, history "would call it a sign of great statesmanship." In Vietnam the only battlefield protest reported reported was the wearing of black armbands by members of a platoon of U.S. in- fantrymen on patrol near Chu Lai, some 360 miles northeast of Saigon. There was no way -of knowing immediately, however, if there were similar antiwar ex- pressions by other GTs scattered throughout the country. FIRST FLOOR, MICHIGAN UNION CLOSED OCTOBER 15 BLUES! BLUES! BLUES! BLUES! ANN ARBOR EXPO 69 FAL LU ES SHOWY LUTHER ALLISON and BLUE NEBULAE REVUE "My Luck Don't -:.e.Ever Change' BIG MOYO Slowdown Baby PLUS BILLY LEWIS "Hard, Hard Time" Billy Lewis SAT., OCT. 18-9 P.M. to 1 A.M. ARMORY-223 E. Ann St. TICKETS ON SALE AT DISCOUNT RECORDS-$3.00 Ann Arbor-Gateway to the World of Blues LIBERAL ARTS MAJORS m R 7 : .:: F' 4 FOR BIG J, .--' rrr lF _.__ a rd C> MUFFLER VALUES! 't -eo /f A i7 / tF whole P0T cn open d new world of opportunity... 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