Student demonstrations
Berkeley, Chicago U. erupt in violence
Bv United Press International
At the University of California at Berkeley, where a student strike has resulted in a score of arrests and clashes with police,a state of "extreme emergency" has been declared.
At the University of Chicago, where the administration has chosen to ignore the students occupying its administration building for more than a week, "a kind of demoralization" has thinned student protest ranks.
Today, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College administrators have the opportunity to choose which course of action it will follow. About 200 students have begun an occupation of the predominantly Negro college's administration building.
Students at the University of Chicago, Queens College in New York City, Western Illinois University and Wisconsin State University at Oshkosh have scheduled meetings to determine a course of action in dramatizing their complaints.
Getting no reaction from the
Coalition wants lower voting age
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A coalition of youth groups yesterday opened a drive to get the voting age lowered to 18 and were told that to be successful, they must first overcome "the stereotype image of militant demonstrators and beatniks."
Sen. Jennings Randolph, D-W. Va., told the group at the National Education Association (NEA) headquarters that "it's up to you to illustrate your desire to participate as an elector."
Randolph said while campus disorders "do not help much," the majority of American youth have shown readiness to vote with their effectiveness in the recent presidential campaign, their success in the Peace Corps and Vista and "the fulfillment of your military obligations."
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., long an advocate of allowing 18-year-olds to vote also told the youth coalition that "student unrest will lead some people to question the wisdom of lowering the voting age."
But Bayh said the very nature of the new campaign should demonstrate to the doubters that young adults are capable of good citizenship.
Congress votes its own pay hike
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Rules Committee yesterday approved a 41 per cent pay boost for members of Congress and thus, in effect, nailed the $12,500 annual boost into law.
The Rules Committee acted in a closed meeting. Chairman William M. Colmer, D-Miss., who had fought the pay raise which also includes boosts for top government officials and judges, said afterward the vote for the raise was "substantial."
The Senate went along with the pay raise package Tuesday. Under today's House rules action, the issue will not be put to a vote in the House.
Lacking a veto by either House or Senate, the increase takes effect automatically, starting with the first pay periods after Valentine's day.
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administration to their sit-in, the University of Chicago students called for a mass meeting today to discuss the possibility of a student strike. At a scheduled mass meeting Wednesday night, only six persons showed up, including four representatives of the protesters.
At Queens College where 80 black and Puerto Rican students occupied one campus building and threatened to take over a ghetto aid program, a meeting was set with administration representatives.
In Macomb, Ill., Western Illinois University students staged an orderly demonstration on the campus Wednesday night and called for a boycott of classes today and scheduled a meeting to discuss what action to follow. The demonstration apparently was because of
disqualification of a candidate in a student government election ballot.
Students at Oshkosh State University have given the administration until Friday to reply to a list of demands in support of dismissed teachers and a greater student voice, or face a possible student strike on Monday.
Relatively Quiet
Gov. Ronald Reagan declared the "extreme emergency" on the Berkeley campus, although the campus was relatively quiet Wednesday.
Of the five demands presented at North Carolina A&T by representatives of the 200 protesting students of the 3,900-mainly Negro-enrollment, four were common complaints about grading and
testing. The fifth was a demand the school's Humanities Department be "black oriented" by September, offering courses in black art, music and poetry.
Traditional values provided the stage for the most comical campus demonstration staged Wednesday. Six women and four men students stripped to the
buff at Grinnell College in Iowa Wednesday, in front of Bruce Draper, manager of college promotion for Playboy magazine, who was delivering a speech.
The students sang and chanted in the altogether that "Playboy magazine is a money-changer in the temple of the body."
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