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Serials Dopt, Eox 870 Chi ?l Hill, ,T.C Geer Conversation r - r . Fair And Mild Fair and mOd today, with highs in the lower 70s. Partly cloudy and continued mHi Wednesday with a chance el scattered showers. Geer Conversation today at 4 p.m. in the Woodhonse Room of GM. 76 Year o Editorial Freedom Volume 75, Number 128 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1968 Founded February 23, H Tl ee: TVi Tit Arrested III Dow D Dow Picketers Crowd Cathy By WAYNE IIURDER of The Daily Tar Heel Staff Anti-war picketers, campus policemen, and reporters crowded in the small office in South Building that belongs to Dean of Student Affairs CO. Cathey Monday morning. The protesters were directed into Cathey's office after ask ing to see Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson so they could deliver a letter to him. Once in the office they gave Cathey the letter and began to debate whether the University should allow representatives from Dow Chemical Co. recruit on campus, and whether the recruiters should have to debate the pro testers. 'The Dow recruiter is there to give the students an op portunity," Cathey told them. "He has come here, every year. . .Its a routine mat ter." The buildings on campus that belong to the state must be kept free from demonstra tion that disturb normal ac tivities, Cathey told the group, explaining why they hadn't been allowed to picket inside, Gardner Hall. "Whether Dow debates you or not is none of my business," he said, and added that his on ly purpose was to prevent unusual disturbances. "We're not asking anyone to restrict their right to recruit," one of the protesters told Cathey. "We just want to debate them. - "We'd be perfectly .willing- to- give Carmichael auditorium. Memorial Hall, so Dow could debate," Cathey answered. "What we're asking is that you help us get them to debate," was the reply from one of the protesters. You're providing them with space in an educational system without having them participate in the free and open dialogue of the educa tional process," the person ad ded. At that point Cathey told them that he would present the letter to the Chancellor and "it will be given careful at tention." He then added: "We operate a 'bread and butter' institution for students," and have to pro vide facilities for recruiters. "We hope the student will have the conscience to pick out a proper place to work," he said. Cathey and the protestors debated for about 30 minutes. About half way through the talks three of the protesters got up and left when Cathey referred to Japanese in World War II as "Japs." "A few of us just walked out : because it seemed so futile to engage in a conversation over such important matters at so low a level," the demonstrators explained in a news letter published Monday afternoon. -y The meeting broke up after a discussion of the Nuremburg trials and Cathey's reiterating that the University couldnt let the protesters inside the buildings because their presence .,wouId .di s turb classes. . t ? ft ) 4 7' km Dow Recruiter James Towosend . . . Faces Demonstrators 50 Dow Protestors Present Reouest To Administration By RICK GRAY of The Daily Tar Heel Staff Fifteen persons were ar rested hera Monday as they protested the presence of a recruiter for Dow Chemical company on campus. The fifteen included ten students and faculty members. Also among thosa arrested were George Vlasits o f Durham who refused induction into the Army in January and Mrs. Bey Wheeler a student at Franco nia College in New Hampshire who came to Chapel Hill carrying a baby on her back. All fifteen posted bond with the Chapel Hill Police Depart ment and are slated for trial in Chapel Hill Recorders' Court March 26. The demonstration began Monday morning at 8:30 with approximately fifty demonstrators carrying signs in front of Gardner Hall where the Dow representative, James Townsend, was conducting in terviews. Just before nine, Townsend arrived and several of the members of the group asked that he debate Dow's manufac ture of napalm for use in Viet nam with them. He refused to debate saying that he was a recruiter and was not on campus to debate questions. Townsend said, "I think these students are sincere, and I respect their sincerity. . .1 am not here to present Dow's position on the manufacture of napalm. If they wanted to debate they should have He continued to say that had the Students for a Democratic Society, which organized the picketing, written Dow a week in advance, a debater would ha been provided. SDS President Jerry Carr and Giorge Vlasits replied that they had not known that the recruiter was going to be on campus until the middle of last week. Before the group first at tempted to enter Gardner, Carr said, "We do not an ticipate any trouble." Chief of Campus Police E.B. Riggsbee and Security Chief Arthur J. Beaumont denied the group entrance to the building on the basis of a state law which prohibits a person or group of persons to enter a public and disrupt the business conducted in the building. The demonstrators protested the ruling saying that they did not plan to disrupt the classes which were in session in the building. When it was learned that the ruling denying entrance to the demonstrators was issued by Dean of Student Affairs CO. Cathey. The majority of the group then turned their at tention to South Building and presented their demands to Cathey. While the main body was talking to Cathey and picketing outside South Building, a group of some dozen students gained entrance to tha building through a side door and had tried to present their petition to the Dow representative. Townsend refused to accept the petition and the group re mained outside the door, with the exception of Robert C. (Corky) Eaton and Forrest Young who went to Cathey's office. After talking to Cathey, who said that representatives could enter the building to present the paititon to Townsend, Eaton entered the office shortly afler eleven o'clock, and Townsend accepted the petition. Alter Eaton left witnesses said, he and five others sat down in the hall and blocked the passage of students in terviewing with Dow. The campus police arrested the six, and then nine others sat down. They were also arrested, br inging the total to 15. .Maximum penalty for viola tion of the state law under which the group was arrested is a fifty dollar fine, thirty days imprisonment, or both. Conviction under the law is a misdemeanor. we" if it v J 3 $ljr DatUt aar Ijrcl World News BRIEFS By United Press International JL By RICK GRAY of The Daily Tar Heel Staff About fifty persons gathered in front oL jOJMax Gardner Hall Monday morning. The fifty were carrying signs reading: "Dow Burns People for Profit, Old Soldiers Never The 15 were arrested for sit- They met Riggsbee and ting in the second floor hall of Beaumont when they first tried the building and blocking en- to enter the building, trance to the room where Dow' .- They" met Cathey when they Hurts, War Is Children And Things." They were protesting the presence of a recruiter for Dow Chemical Company on campus on the grounds that the company manufactures napalm, an incendiary jelly which is used in Vietnam to combat concentrations of Viet. Cong forces in dense un dergrowth. Before the picketing reached its peak, Jerry Carr, president of the campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and one of the organizers of the demonstra tion, said, "We anticipate no trouble." When1 it was all over, Dean of Student Affairs CO. Cathey said. "It was unfortunate that ter arrangement." Ithey (fifteen of the Rep. Paul Findley, R-Ill., who originated the resolution, said demonstrators) had to get ar- that "as a Republican I have had mixed feelings" about the pro- rested." posal. He said it might take away a GOP political issue in an election year, "But I believe this is beyond partisanship." representative James Townsend was conducting recruiting interviews. In between, the group met Die, Just Young Ones, Napalm face to face with Dean Cathey, Unhealthy for Other Living Debate Said To Clear Policy WASHINGTON Backers of a resolution calling for a con gressional Vietnam debate said Monday such a wholesale ex pression of opinion would give President Johnson a clear man date for war policy something he lacks now. Main backers of the resolution said Monday that they had gained two sponsors over the weekend, bringing the total to 139-98 Republicans and 41 Democrats or nearly one third of the House's members. "If I were the President, "I'd pick it up and run with it," said Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz. "I don't think he could ask for a bet- Rich Preyer Will Address Campus YDC L. Richardson Preyer, Democratic candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District, will speak to the UNC Young The new politices, like the old guidelines, are intended to im- eJ?ocrats aub Wednesday at HEW To Replace School Guidelines WASHINGTON The Department of Health, Education and Welfare Monday announced it is scrapping controversial school desegregation guidelines and replacing them with a new state ment of policy for antidiscrimination. Assistant HEW Secretary F. Labossi, who assumed charge of school desegregation enforcement last summer, said the new policies were drafted to comply with a 1967 amendment of the elementary and secondary education act requiring equal anti discrimination enforcement m all states plement a section of the 1964 Civi IRights Act. They said all school systems hoping to quality for federal funds must achieve goals: Eliminate and prevent discrimination in all service facilities, activities and programs. Eliminate student assignment procedures, school attendance zones, and school feeder patterns which segregate students on the basis of race, color or national origin. The HEW policy statement also said: "While these policies do not require the correction of racial imbalance resulting from private housing patterns, neither the policies nor Title VI bars a school system from reducing or eliminating racial imbalance in its school." Kennedy9 s Move Delights Bliss WASHINGTON Republican National Chairman Ray c. Bliss today viewed "with glee" the Democrats' dilemma over Sen. Robert Kennedy's challenge of President Johnson for the presidential nomination. Bliss told a news conference that "as a practical political, leader, I look with glee at the Democrats having more trouble than we." Bliss said he assumed that "internecine warfare is usually harmful." But he downgraded Kennedy's chances of taking the Democratic nomination from Johnson, "in normal circumstances, the power of the presidency being what it is the President should be re-nominated," said Bliss. ' The meeting in Gerrard Hall is open to the public. Preyer, a former state gubernatorial candidate, i s federal judge for the U.S. Mid dle District. He served as a Superior Court judge from 1956-61. The 49-year-old Greensboro lawyer is a graduate of Princeton College and Harvard Law School. He is president of the N.C. Citizens Committee for Better Schools, a trustee and member of the curriculum committee of Woodbury Forest school, and on the board of visitors of Davidson college. He is president of the Guilford County chapter of the National Conference of Chris tians and Jews, a trustee of the N.C. Symphony Society, chairman of the board of trustees of the Central Hospital, and a member of the State Provation Commission. After his speech to the YDC, Preyer will talk with students from the sixth District who may be interested in helping him this summer during his Congressional campaign. Chief Security Officer Arthur J. Beaumont, Campus Police Capt. E.B. Rigsbee, and Townsend. Radio Station To Broadcast At Ehringhaus Ehringhaus will feature a radio station beginning near the end of March. The station is scheduled to include 90 minutes of language lab tapes every Tuesday, Wednesday, land Thursday at 4:30 p.m. for French, German and Spanish 1, 2, and 3. Other programs on the sta tion schedule will include jazz, classical, country and western, psychedelic and broadway music. Most of the music, however, will be "popular". There will be an hour-long documentary program each week. The station manager is Phil Lmrnam; chief engineer, Woody Woodfin; program director, Steve Hibbard. Bill Courtney, academic lieutenant governor started the station. The broadcasting hours are 4:30 p.m. to midnight. No pro grams will be aired on Satur day. The station will be at 550 AM. The staff is composed of 20 students. Many are presently being trained for their positions. were denied entrance. And they met Townsend when Cathey okayed t h e en trance of representatives of the group. After the smoke had cleared, and the officials had had the opportunity to review . the facts, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson spoke for the University: "I didn't know anything about it until it was all over. "We respect the right of peo ple to petition and protest as long as they remain within the boundaries of the law. . . "I'm astonished that anything else (besides a peaceful demonstration) hap pened." The requests made of the ad ministration by the group were twofold: "(1) That the University re- (Oontbraed on Pe S) Orientation Interviews Two days remain to in terview for positions as o r i entation counselors. The Orientation Com mission will interview from 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in Roland Parker I. The Commission is especially in need of counselors for transfer women students, ac cording to Jay Schwartz, Chairman of Orien tation. The only prerequisite for applying is an interest in the program, said Schwartz. 4War Policies Of Johnson Must Change9 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy said Monday the Vietnam War "will go on, year after terrible year" unless President Johnson's policies are changed. At the same time, the President was calling for national austerity to accomplish a "triumph of justice" in the war. Kennedy, in the first major speech since he announced Saturday he is opposing the President for the Democratic nomination, said Johnson in proposing peace talks "seeks not compromise but vic tory." For his part, Johnson said in a speech prepared for the National Farmers Union con vention in Minneapolis, "We seek not the victory of con quest but the triumph of justice. Wewill win." Charging" that Johnson was searching for victory in I t J I J r I f i t;: 7 M , Dorm Mrs. Betsy Wheeler . . . came to picket with baby. Petition negotiations rather than a "TT"l "TFT) TFftT! compromise solution, Kennedy jjH Qy. HD1 JT iHOMeg "To seek victory at the con ference table is to ensure that you will never reach it. Instead, the war will go on, year after terrible year until those who sit in the seats of high policy are men who seek By NANCY STAN CI LL of The Daily Tar He:l Staff Petitions asking that telephones be installed in ind ividual rooms are currently another path. And that must be being circulated in Ehringhaus done this year.' Defending his p o 1 i c i e s , Johnson told his audience at Minneapolis no one desires peace "more than your Presi dent." "We hope to achieve a just peace at the negotiating table," he said. "But if the enemy continues to insist as it does now that the outcome must be determined on the battlefield, then we will win the peace on the battlefield." Residence College. The petitions originated a week ago at the request of Ehringhaus student legislators Harry D i f f e n d a 1 , John Williford, and Ken McAllister. The purpose of the petitions is to find if the extra cost in volved in installing the phones will decrease the popular de mand. The addition of the in dividual phones will raise the cost of board fees ap- Live Abroad With Scholarships By LOUISE JENNINGS of The Daily Tar Heel Staff A $1460 scholarship for two UNC students to participate in the Experiment in Interna tional Living has been ap propriated by GM. An additional $250 for the first student chosen and $150 for the second one have been appropriated by the Ex periment Center in Putney, Vermont. The Experiment in Interna tional Living is an exchange program which was begun in 1932 Under the program ap proximately 5,000 students are involved annually in an ex change between the United States and more than 60 coun tries. The students chosen for the exchange spend a summer liv ing with a native family, em pahsisizing intensive learning about the specific country. Programs include travel with the family and often special projects are provided, depending on the country. Programs in which the students may participate social work, hospital work, political science research, teaching languages, hiking in the Alps, and specialized study in some aspect of the culture. Students applying for the scholarships must be freshmen, sophomores, o r juniors. Applications are available in Y-Court, GM, and the International Student Center. They must be filed at the ISC by Monday, March 25 at 5:00 p.m. From the applications ap proximately 20 students will be chosen for interviews with a faculty student committee. "Special consideration will be given to students who have previously been active in group work," according to Steve Mueller, Chairman of the ISC. He emphasized the fact that students who have already ap plied for the program may also apply for the scholarships. Costs for the program de pend on the country for which one applies. The average cost for the program, according to Mueller, is $1200. The com bined scholarships will cover a large out. part of this, he pointed Students participating under the scholarship program or un der funds provided by some group will be assigned as A m b assadors and will represent the group which sponsors them. Special consideration for scholarships will be given for students applying for Britain, Germany, Greece, Holland, Sweden, India, Mexico, Moroc co, Nepal, Poland, USSR, Tunisia, Turkey, and possibly France. A catalogue of the countries and descriptions of the pro grams provided in each is available at the ISC. proximately $3.00 per semester, according to Russ Perry, building and grounds supervisor. "There is a definite need for individual phones," stated Bill Courtney, Lieutenant-Governor of Ehringhaus. The current ratio is two hall phones for every 120 residents. The hall phones, used by so many residents, are frequently tied up, creating difficulties in emergency situations, said Courtney. Another problem is caused by the way the dormitory is structured. Courtney pointed out that residents become tired of answering the telephones when they have to search the halls for the person being call ed. This problem could b e partially alleviated by in stalling a buzzer system,. which the University Physical Plant has consistently refused to do, having promised for some time to install the individual room phones, Cortney said. According to Courtney, Ehr inghaus was promised the room phones last spring by Dean Long, the former Dean of Men. .The request has not been carried out yet, and dorm of ficials are hoping the petitions will result in quick action. Two of the other high-rise men's residences, James and Morrison, already have in dividual phones. Dorm officials stated that because Ehringhaus elections are currently in progress, the petitions have not been pushed yet, but there has been a coa siderable amount of interes; already.