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V f7 ) J Of; Uh STH1 j! Ij ( if 1 1 I 1 ! Weather TODAY clear to partly cloudy; high, mid 80's; low, 60's; ten percent chance of rain. WEDNESDAY warmer. Volume 78, Number 47 QglFlS At State . By Rod Waldorf Managing Editor RALEIGH A general strike of all classes at N.C. State University apparently hinges on the outcome of a decision of the Faculty Senate on how students who strike will be graded. The strike, called a "peace retreat" by Cathy Sterling, president-elect of the N.C. State student body, has been slow to catch on, according to a spokesman for the N.C. State student government. N.C. State is the second branch . of the Consolidated University of North Carolina to call a boycott of classes in the wake of the expansion of the Indochina war into Cambodia and the fatal shooting of four Kent State University students last week. Class attendance at N.C. State Monday was about normal, the spokesman for the student government said, "but the real test will come Tuesday when the Faculty Senate meets to consider whether State will adopt a grading similar to that adopted by UNC and Duke." He said much of class time Monday was spent discussing the grading alternatives that may be considered by the Faculty Senate. Some faculty members have expressed fear that the motive of the strike may be clouded by students wanting to get out early without the responsibility of taking final exams. Student leaders feel that whatever the Faculty Senate decides will be followed by the general faculty. ' In r her statement announcing the boycott, Miss Sterling said, "The response from Gov. (Bob) Scott (to the march Friday in Raleigh), while it was more than expected, still is not enough. More can be done." The strike was called as an extension of the mass student march on the State Capitol Friday. She said the strike was not an attempt to close the university, but rather a retreat to gather one's thoughts and find his place in a given situation in this case, in relation to the war in Indochina. Faculty, tudents Student representatives and faculty members met at noon Monday to discuss problems related to students' decisions on the completion of the semester work, according to Judy Hippler, advisor to Student Body President Tom Bello. Miss Hippler said the main concern of the group was the fact that many students had not contacted, their instructors for . decisions on work completion. "It's imperative that students exercise their iniative irk CommiUee Pushing By Jessica II an char Staff Writer The Election 70 Committee is circulating petitions asking that students get two weeks off from studies, in November to participate in political campaigns. One petition states: "We ask the faculty and the University to make the arrangements necessary to permit us both to complete the semester's requirements and to campaign the two weeks prior to the November elections." V X Sitterson talks with ;edlenft By Terry Cheek - Staff Writer . Seventy-five to 100 dissenting students staged a sit-in demonstration in South Building Monday to protest the trustee's disruption policy. Demanding to see Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, the students occupied the administration building lobby for over an hour. The three students who were finally admitted to the Chancellor's office presented him with a petition which they said contains the names of 800 UNC students indicting themselves for violations of the disruption policy during the first few days of the strike this Students Must See Profg and go see their professors, she said. Miss Hippler failure to notify before cutting a would result in added that a professor final exam a grade of "absent." This grade can only be excused by the dean of the student's school or college. Miss Hippler noted such excuses are not given except in extreme hardship cases. In another move to clarify the amnesty policy, Dr. Daniel A. Okun, chairman of the faculty, released a statement A second petition being circulated among faculty members states: "We are willing to make the arrangements necessary for students to both complete the fall semester requirements and to campaign the two weeks prior to the November political elections." The purpose of the first petition is to show students are interested in participating in political activity, said Arthur Berger, graduate city planning student. J) V i. r 4f J J L students during week. The it-in participants were specifically protesting the charging of three students with disruption during the cafeteria workers strike in December. Those cases have not come before the trustees' Hearings Committee. Charging that the disruption policy is being used to discriminate against individual leaders of minority groups, the students demanded the policy be either modified or discontinued. Sitterson said he, along with the chancellors of the other five Consolidated University campuses, could act only as a transmitter of information to Consolidated University Decide now available in the Student Government offices. Dr. Okun said the faculty's decision on amnesty was designed "to give students involved in the anti-war movement, the maximum possible latitude in completing and fulfilling course requirements. "Where an. agreement cannot be reached to the satisfaction of both student and teacher, the student has the right to appeal, first to his 'department chairman, then to the appropriate dean," he said. By . Monday afternoon, the first day of the petition, 1,000 signatures had been collected, according to Berger. If the objectives of the first petition do not work out, said Berger, the list of faculty members willing to work out arrangements will be available. Students may choose these teachers during drop-add in the fall. There are three methods by which the committee can accomplish its goals. The UNC Calender , Committee could re-arrange the 1970-71 ? i ! j 7o iVarj 0 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY. MAY 12. f j disruption policy protest. Alt President William Friday. "I will convey the- information you gave me to the president of the University," said Sitterson. "It is exclusively in the president's hands. I don't bring charges and I don't drop charges. The University faculty has appointed a subcommittee to make changes in the disruption policy and I am in favor of those proposals." When asked if he thought the sit-in constituted disruption, Sitterson replied that under the prevailing conditions, the sit-in was "not outside the University's normal affairs." Sitterson said he would request President Friday to answer the students by Wednesday. The sit-in was condemned by the organizers of the strike, Student Body President Tommy Bello and the strike steering comittee. It's indicative of the Wolfe Contest Awards Tonight The Thomas Wolfe Writing Contest awards banquet, postponed last Thursday due to the student strike, will be held tonight at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house on Finely Golf Course 'Road. Winners will be announced at the banquet, and the contest results will appear in Thursday's Daily Tar Heel. schedule so as to give a two-week, vacation prior to the elections. This method was instituted at Princeton. The second is by choosing instructors from the list of faculty members signing the petition during drop-add next fall. The third is for the University to call off -classes during the two-week period. The petitions ; will De presented at the next faculty meeting for discussion. It will also be presented to me I) ' i fi I Editorial Freedom By Rick Gray Associate Editor About 400 students were scheduled to travel to .Washington this morning to discuss the war in Southeast Asia with congressmen. Student Government chartered 10 buses last week to carry students and faculty- f I members to the nation's capital to meet with the North Carolina congressional delegation and discuss the war with them. Also scheduled for today, as the student strike in protest of ' the killings at Kent State University and the expansion of the Indochina war enters its second week, is door-to-door canvassing in Durham. About 250 to 300 students wrent door-to-door in Chapel Hill and Carrboro over the weekend seeking support for the anti-war movement from townspeople. The canvassing in Durham will be done in cooperation with a group of students who have been going door-to-door in Durham for the past several days. Buses were scheduled to leave the Morehead parking lot this morning at 5:30. A nit non-violent and constructive desires of the students of this campus that while 60 wanted use Id Students Administration Office By United Press International COLUMBIA,, S.C.-About 200 students broke their way into the treasurer's office at the University of South Carolina administration building: Monday, tearing up records, overturning desks and throwing papers and computer cards out the window. The takeover grew out of a demonstration outside the administration building, where upstairs a committee of university trustees was considering the cases of 31 students who participated in a takeover of the student center last week. ! About 35 riot-equipped highway patrolmen, equipped with tear gas, went in the back entrance as the students shouted at the front and took up positions at the top of the stairs. The trustees were meeting in an upstairs room and patrolmen hit two students with billy clubs who attempted to go up the stairs. Downstairs, about 200 students burst their way through the front door and climbed in windows in their seizure of the treasurer's office. One student smashed his fist through a window, and other Calendar Committee. Election 70 will also publish an informal sheet about candidates for state legislature, the House and the Senate, from this region, according to Berger. The sheet will help campaigning students to decide which candidates to support. The sheet will be available in the committee's office in Suite A of the Carolina Union. "Students should get to work immediately and during the summer," said Berger. The committee will also set up workshops for students to i if 1970 fC? si H meeting with the entire North Carolina delegation will be held at noon in the Banking and Commerce Committee room in the Ray bum office building. Hie group is scheduled to break up into teams to meet individually with congressmen in their offices in the morning and afternoon. The buses will return to Chapel Hill late this afternoon. Monday afternoon about 600 people gathered in the Pit to listen to six professors discuss the implications of President Richard Nixon's sending troops into Cambodia. Dr. Andrew Scott of the political science department said the move had "badly divided his (Nixon's) own administration, completely solidified the press in opposition to his policy' and has had an important impact on the fortunes of both political parties." Scott said the move had "completely split" the ranks of the Republican party and greatly helped the Democrats in their rebuilding efforts. 'The move plays into the hands of the hard-liners in Russia and China," he said. "It has led to improve Sino-Soviet relations and fostered ling to sit down in South Building, 600 were participating in constructive action eize windows were opened as students threw out office equipment and reams of paper. The students placed obceene signs facing outward from the treasurer's office and one sign which read "Liberate d Amnesty now Strike." About 450 students gathered outside the administration building as the hearings started for the students temporarily suspended last week. Some of those arrested last week grabbed a microphone and urged students to enter the building. One girl shouted, "They're not going to pay any attention to us unless we raise some hell." After about an hour of speeches and debate one student called a countdown from 20 to zero, at which time the long-haired male students surged into student marshals who were guarding the door. The line held for a minute but then the crowds moved into the treasurer's office just to the left of the front door. ' Some students stood in the office windows giving the "peace" sign to fellow students. find out what they can do. "It will be a learning experience for students who have not been previously involved," said Berger. The committee is also working with the Graduate Coordinating Committee. Graduate students are going to individual professors to gain support. They hope each department and possibly the entire Graduate School will work out a policy to make course completion possible. Any graduate department TT f i n 7! Tl TS T1 7VT i r r 'V H f j I I I sT, o anti-Americanism world." aH oer the the war itwlf "stupidity," Scott said the immediate impact of the move on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) "had to be bad." "I wouldn't be surprised to see some settlement come out of the SALT talks, however," Scott said. "He has got to appear to the people as Nixon the peacemaker, not Nixon the warmaker. So he feels he's got to get something out of SALT." Scott also said Nixon's move to send troops into Cambodia had initiated a shift in the nation's political sentiment. "A presidential speech usually tends to rally people around the flag," he said. "Instead this is tending to rally people around opposition. "It has helped close the gap between the campuses and the Wa j ' , I- . 1 1 'ift r .. i,1 j -..- , M .- ? Ml 1 v y i I it v ' f i j ! - . . .. t Y .: . .----s; UNC students join others from across the nation in a march across the Elipse in Washington. DTH staffers Henrv Hinkle. Mike Parnell and John Gellman were there to cover the weekend of protest and demonstrations. Their report is on page four in the DTH's first "Spotlight" article. (Staff photo by John Gellman) Dissent Special On WUNC "Campus 1970: The Politics of Dissent," an hour-long television special produced by UNC-TV, will be shown at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on Channel 4. According to Peter Brown, UNC-TV spokesman, the special will focus on North Carolina student dissent as related to recent political events. The program will include a narrative history on the hsues leading up to the campus strike that is affecting numerous universities across the nation. Reaction to the UNC faculty resolution passed to extend amnesty to striking students will be covered along with comments from people of opposing views on campus issues and the Indochina war. Brown said the program will discuss the effects of door to door opinion polling by students and the impact of letters sent to government representatives. mirhc that has not been contacted should go by the offieers in New East, said Berger. Election 70 also hopes to campaign in the Orange County Commissioner elections June 2. Several law school students are working to get students together for the campaigns. Interested students are asked to sign up in Suite A. The committee needs students from fraternities and dormitories to canvass houses and dorms, according to On The Inside The Lsw S-rhoo! w;.'l make striking studrnts for c-ouvvor.. of th U-ii a.-.d nra!rd ircpUcation of the war, the Kr.: incident and th tf 4 V. 1 I C , . W , FcundevS February 231 893 TV-" T 9 " I I J (I h fZL nation," he added, "by rrxnir.g the nation clor to the campus." Scott said the atmosphere of the political system hid become "less sticky" and was allowing "disvnt to move back into political channels. "The political environment is open to this type of thing (McCarthy-type campa'gr.s) again," Scott said. "In the past, a lot of young people have felt their oicts were not being heard, and they weren't being heard,"' he said. "The system needs a good push, and I think that push has been given to it." Dr. James R. Leut?e of the history department, t specialist in military' history, said he thought the operation in Cambodia would, at best, be a qualified success. "I'm not at all sanguine," Leutze said, "about whether (See STRIKE, page 6) no Berger. "At this point the election committee is vastly understaffed. Students -are needed to circulate the petitions throughout all residence areas and academic departments" said Alan Gump, committee coordinator. Election 70 Committee grew out of the Princeton Movement for a New Congress to End an Old War. The movement was organized May 4.