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Protestors disrupt campuses
About 150 Mississippi highway patrolmen broke up a student protest at all-Negro Mississippi Valley State College yesterday and arrested 15 students.
the college "sent home" 198 other students who were given the choice of facing disorderly conduct charges or being boarded on five chartered buses which were taken to Jackson by the state patrol in a convoy.
The 15 students arrested were charged with disorderly conduct after doors and windows were broken in the college administration building.
State patrolmen were called on campus when a student dance in the gymnasium continued
Dr. J. H. White, president of the college, indicated the "sent home" students, although not officially expelled or suspended, would not be readmitted.
Charles Evers, state field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said in Jackson that the college's action was "an outright violation of their, the students, constitutional rights.
after 11:30 p.m., the time it was supposed to end according to college rules.
Students with mattresses, blankets and pillows appeared ready to spend the night in the gym. White said. They offered no resistance to the patrol, although a small group of students broke away from the gym and began breaking windows at the administration building.
Meanwhile, protestors temporarily evacuated the top five floors of the six-story University of Chicago administration building last night after receiving a telephoned bomb threat which proved to be a hoax.
An oven timer was found by the Chicago Police Bomb and Arson Squad to be the source of a ticking noise discovered by campus security police to be coming from a locked filing cabinet in a third floor office.
All doors to the building had been barricaded during the day, the 11th day of the sit-in, in the wake of a bizarre Saturday night raid by young men thought to be members of the right wing "Minutemen" organization.
Sgt. John Brennan of the security police said the threat was relayed to him by telephone in a first floor office by an operator at the university switchboard on the sixth floor of the building.
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New Left film opens seminar; outlines project
'Troublemakers,' a revolutionary film of community organization in a Newark, N.J., ghetto, opened the six-week SUA civil disobedience seminar yesterday in Dyche Auditorium.
Recently named the best film of the New American Left by the N.Y. Film Festival, "Troublemakers" outlined three months of the Newark Community Union Project (NCUP).
For two years NCUP unsuccessfully tried to secure changes in the controlling Newark bureaucracy.
In order to achieve these changes, the group:
- Petitioned and demonstrated in efforts to install a traffic light at an intersection used for drag racing
- Supported a political campaign for a candidate whose ticket was crushed by a Democratic landslide in the general election.
- Served as a bloc for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- Appealed to the Newark Human Rights Commission, local War of Poverty and organized pickets to enforce a building code
If desired change is impossible in today's society, revolution is the answer, said Jonas Mekas, "father" of the underground film. "The only way is to shoot your way through with guns."
Mekas said the film showed people patiently trying to move the bureaucracy with not a dent being made.
"The film makes a person aware of what's really going on," said Julie Turtle, Mission senior. "It makes you aware of another viewpoint."
The film was chosen to give students a realistic look at civil disobedience, said Mike Kirk, Kansas City, Mo., senior and SUA president in charge of the seminar.
"It was kind of depressing," agreed Darryl Klippsten, Mission junior.
Next Sunday's seminar by Rex Martin, assistant professor of philosophy, will present a more theoretical approach to civil disobedience, Kirk explained.
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