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A sea of faces greeted Muskie
Senator Muskie-
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In a press conference prior to his speech, Muskie said, "The great mass of students I've met on college campuses want to work for our country." Muskie said that the nations youth have been considered by some as aliens. Muskie said, of the young, "they are the only future our country has"
When asked about his plans for 1972, Muskie said he was focusing on 1970, he said he hoped he could win the senate race from Maine.
Muskie who has been a longtime supporter of anti-pollution legislation said that environmental concern will never disappear because the problem is so visible, and the visible evidence will support the concern until something is done about the problems.
When asked about the many campuses across the nation that have shut down in protest over the war in Cambodia and the killing of the students at Kent State, Muskie said the decision to shut down must be made by each campus individually. Muskie said that students real power existed while he was in school, not when he was on strike, and that more could be changed by students when they are on the campuses than when they are dispersed.
In his speech, Muskie said that students should band together to form a coalition to work for peace candidates. Muskie said, "We have six months to convince Americans who believe in peace at home and in Indochina—to join us. We have six months to talk and listen and persuade."
Fire in Chicago destroys building; ten die in blaze
CHICAGO (UPI) Ten persons were killed Sunday when fire destroyed a four story apartment building on the city's West Side.
Thirty five persons, many of them elderly and some blind, were rescued by firemen. Five were injured.
Authorities said the blaze apparently started under one of two stairways in the building.
Both stairways immediately crumbled when the fire began causing residents living in the 39 unit building to panic.
One man died when he leaped from a third floor apartment. Another man who jumped from a fourth floor apartment was taken to Loretto Hospital with compound fractures.
More than 200 firemen used 65 pieces of equipment to battle the blaze which lasted less than an hour.
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Muskie said that there are peace candidates surfacing across the nation, that students should support. Muskie said students should form a People-to-People campaign "to give America national leadership committee to peace and the problems of our people."
Muskie received a standing ovation at the conclusion of his speech. He then fielded questions from the audience concerning the expansion of the war in Indochina to Cambodia, the Kent State killings, and ecological problems.
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15 minutes and several speakers urged a general strike regardless of the proposal just accepted.
Thousands back-
Several students were particularly concerned because the blacks had not been allowed to talk before the vote was taken, and had left the stadium to the boos of the crowd. "That was just a bunch of violent white people up there," one girl commented after the convocation. Another expressed concern at the possible consequences of the blacks "rejection" by the assembly.
At the same time, the chancellor was attempting to leave the stadium, but was surrounded by a group of students who complained that there was no opportunity to "discuss" the alternatives, and the option of a general strike was not even presented. Chalmers replied that he was aware of the "nay" votes, but that there was obviously no way to "present 14 different alternatives" on an occasion such as the convocation.
Speaking to another group of students outside the stadium were several blacks who had been among the group surrounding the Chancellor. They said they had planned to ask the students and faculty to back the idea of a general strike and close the University, "because it is a racist society and it perpetuates racism." They added that they felt they had been "rejected" and
Chalmers, speaking for the University, had, in effect, told them "We don't care about you," when he refused to let them speak when they demanded it.
Other students expressed satisfaction at the outcome of the convocation, some saying it was the best possible solution under the circumstances to please the largest number of people. One remarked that the option allowing students to make a choice with regard to their final grades was the "way it should be every semester."
Several students questioned expressed displeasure with the actions of the blacks, and voiced a fear that something could have happened to Chalmers. One said, "The leaders of the BSU showed the students of this university just how irrational their organization is by their foolish, hot-tempered exit from the convocation."
The positive and unifying factor for most members of the University community seemed to be the reenforced popularity of the Chancellor. It was reflected in the wildly enthusiastic greeting he received at Sen. Edmund Muskie's speech Friday night. and it was reflected in the comments and petitions of students and faculty from all spectrums of opinion. Chalmers clearly became their hero of the day.
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