Campuses in turmoil
By United Press International
Police clashed in tumultuous melees with hundreds of radical students at City College of New York (CCNY) yesterday and angered Howard University students went on a rock-throwing spree on the Washington, D.C., campus.
A fire of "definitely suspicious" origin caused heavy damage to the Finley Student Center on the CCNY campus. Fifty police, assigned to guard the reopening of the troubled school, wielded nightsticks on the rebels who went on hit-and-run rampages of vandalism in an effort to shut the college down.
At least 10 students were arrested and an undetermined number injured in the melees that rolled back and forth across the CCNY grounds.
Disorder broke out on the Howard University campus within two hours after school officials asked a federal court for contempt citations against dissident Negro students who held six campus buildings for a second day.
The students defied university orders and a court injunction that they abandon the occupation. Protesters began pelting cars and buses with rocks near the main gate of the campus. A fire broke out in a building near the school and firemen who responded to the alarm were struck with rocks. A Negro student warned newsmen and spectators to leave, saying the rebels' anger was going to explode "indiscriminately."
In the pattern of the anti-war demonstrations that shook Chicago during the Democratic National Convention last
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August, radical students sent white-coated medical aides onto the CCNY campus to tend to their own injured.
The demonstrators, roving in small bands, smashed windows of campus buildings, ripped fire extinguishers from walls and turned on fire hoses in several buildings.
Fist fights broke out between the demonstrators and students who demanded that the school be kent open for classes.
In Washington, Howard President James M. Nabrit Jr. indicated to newsmen he would not hesitate to ask the police to forcibly remove the rebels who held the university buildings if they did not leave peacefully.
University officials asked for the contempt citation when a 7 p.m. university-imposed deadline passed with the students still in the buildings.
U. S. District Court Judge Gerhardt Gessel said he was "in agreement" with Howard's
request but the contempt orders were not expected to be drafted and serve $ ^{4} $ until this morning.
Two parents of Negro students broke up a news conference called by Negro militants earlier yesterday and said supporters of the strike were "in the minority."
Elsewhere in campus turmoil:
New Jersey-About 30 Negro students occupied the main classroom building at Paterson State College in Wayne for about six hours. They demanded more Negro enrollments and more black instructors.
Lise where in campus curtain.
Iowa-University of Iowa officials said a handful of young persons broke into the office of university President Howard R. Bowen, threw typewriters and files to the floor and pulled books off shelves.
New York—Police went onto the Queensborough Community College campus for the second time in as many days to oust students barricaded on the
fourth floor of the administration building. The students—some 40 members of the "Coalition to End Political Suppression"—streamed out of the building when police arrived. They scuffled outside the building with members of a crowd of 500 students who objected to heir tactics in evicting administrators and faculty members.
Queens College, torn by vandalism last week, was tense but open under police guard. At Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, several hundred faculty members were on strike in protest against the school president's policy that demonstrators will be arrested.
Ohio—Shouting groups of students at Ohio State University in Columbus clashed over the school's Reserve Officers Training Corps program. Several fights broke out and a miniature American flag was burned.
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