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Thursday, Sept6mber 9., 1971
THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September '~, 1971
Protest,
ECHOES FROM THE PAST
1971: Students revive
six issues
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By TAMMY JACOBS
Although the past year at the
University was relatively quiet
in terms of student activism, a
series of about three weeks in
February echoed campus dissent
of old, complete with mass meet-
ings, marches, rallies, and sit-
ins.
Issues as well as tactics echo-
oed the past, for the activities
centered around six issues which
throughout the last several
years have repeatedly arisen as
points of concern for the Uni-
versity community.
The issues this year were
couched in the form of six de-
mands which were drawn up at
a mass meeting following a 4.-
000 march Feb. 10 protesting the
United States and South Vietna-
mese invasion into Laos -the
bne large march of the year.
For the most part, the de-
mands were a result of the acti-
vists' efforts to translate exist-
ing opposition to the United
States policies in Indochina as
well as disgust with other as-
pects of American society into
related issues that could be dealt
with on a campus level.
The demands pressed the Uni-
versity to.
-End classified and military
research on campus;
-Remove the Reserve Officer
Training Corps (ROTC) from
the campus;
-Extend throughout the Uni-
versity an Office of Student
Services (OSS) policy that for-
bade the use of OSS facilities
to job recruiters from compan-
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ies that practiced legal discr
ination, such as South Afric
-Grant students tothl con
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lege's program of interdepa
mental and miscellaneous co
ses;
-Establish a free child c
center for the University co
munity; and
-Allow University facili
to be used by the anti-v
movement.
A few days after the dema
were formulated they were p
sented to the Regents, who ch
not to respond to them.
The OSS recruiting policyv
scheduled to be debated at
open hearing before theF
gents the following Thurs
Feb. 18; and the ad hoc c
mittee pressing for the sixt
mands urged students to att
the hearing and show supp
for the proposal which wo
extend the OSS policy's ju
diction.
About 300 students appea
at the debate, and were' ur
by the committee to attend
open Regents' meeting the n
day to hear the decision oni
recruiting policy and again p
sent the six demands.
Most of the students never3
to the meeting; when they
rived outside the Administra
Bldg. to their surprise t
found it locked and guarded
University security guardsa
Ann Arbor police officers.
This was an unheard of p
cedure for the Regents' mont:
open meetings.
The guards told the stud
that they could not enter wi
out previous permission and t
there were not enough seats
jaccommodate the 20 to 30 p,
ple who had already gathere
As the crowd grew lar
scuffling broke out betw
g u a r d s and demonstra
around the door on the side
the building facing Peop
Plaza. Then a side door was
ened from within by a stud
who had previously receive
pass to the meeting.
The struggling grew more
olent and Ann Arbor police
inforcements came onto cam
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ministration, and such a request
.red is rarely made.
,ged By the end of the morning,
an two students had been arrest-.
ext ed, a policeman hurt, and al-
the though a few demonstrators had
re- broken through the police lines,
the six demands were not pre-
got sented again to the Regents.
ar- To add to the students' dis-
tion tress, the Regents negated the
hey OSS recruiting policy with what
hby they called a compromise policy
and that bars only corporations that
wish to recruit people specifi-
- cally for jobs in countries that
thly discriminate.
At this point, the protests
ents escalated.
ith- For, the immediate reaction
hat to the arrests, the "outrage" of
hat the locked building, and the un-
o favorable Regental action on the
d. Tecruiting policy was to call for
,ge, a rally two hours later.
veer The rally that afternoon drew
tors some 200 people, almost four
e of times the amount present out-
le's side the morning Regents' meet-
op-e ing, and almost immediately,
lent the crowd voted to "discuss
,da things in the LSA Bldg."
d a Aftera bit of discussion, the
crowd moved from the LSA Bldg.
re- They marched through campus
re- -to the E. Engineering Bldg.
pus. where a recruiter from Lincoln
am- Laboratories, a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology firm
that does much military re-
search, was supposedly conduct-
ing interviews.
Again, the crowd enlarged as
the group marched through a
half dozen major classroom
buildings and into the Engi-
neering Bldg.
Officials of the engineering
school spoke to the demonstra-
tors, and threatened them with
possible arrest - shortly there-
after the protesters headed back
to the LSA Bldg.
But, by that time, it was get-
ting dark and the crowd had
dwindled to about 50 people,
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Once at the LSA Bldg., the
protesters disbanded, planning
to reorganize and meet again
Monday, Feb. 22.
Monday's action became a sit-
in which lasted about 32 hours,
ranging in attendance from 400
people during the afternoon to a
skkeleton crew of about 15 early
Tuesday morning.
The administration did noth-
ing until the protesters voted
Tuesday afternoon to move the
sit-in from the LSA Bldg. to the
Administration Bldg., a more
strategic point, especially for the
protesters' morale.
At that point, the riot act was
read - demonstrators w e ir e
threatened with prosecution un-
recruiting issue is undecided,
though those advocating that
the choice of recruiters remain
up to the individual school and
college, for the moment, have
won. Others continue to advo-
cate a uniform recruiting policy
for the University.
The fight to end ROTC, an
important issue on most cam-
puses of the late 1960's, has died
down since the University in De-
cember, 1969, set a proposed
program where the federal gov-
ernment would pay for the costs
of ROTC (this summer, the gov-
ernment offered to pay part of
the cost, and the University ap-
pears willing to accept).
Although not nearly as wide-
t
Moving the protest through campus
der University, city and state
laws, and given a half hour to
vacate the premises.
The protesters, many of them
veterans of previous sit-in
"busts" and unwilling to be ar-
rested this time, voted to leave,
and the two-day sit-in ended.
Spring vacation came a few
days later, and the six demands
as such were dropped, the is-
sues quietly shelved until the
next time.
The next time came a month
later for the classified research
issue which had been simmering
all year. A series of hearings on
the issue were held by Senate
Assembly, the faculty represen-
tative body, but by the end of
the summer, the issue was still
undecided.
Like the research issue, the
spread as the struggle against
ROTC, the pressure for a child
care center in Ann Arbor is, in
one sense, linked to the ROTC
issue, for, almost as many times
as there have been requests for
a child care center, the ROTC
building has been suggested as
the place to house it.
The demands for child care
centers, like the research, re-
cruiting, and ROTC demands,
are nationwide, as women come
into their own politically.
The demands to grant space
to the anti-war movement, too,
is a common national issue, for
although the anti-war move-
ment seems to have splintered,
every campus has at least one
branch of the movement along
with many, many supporters of
the goals.
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