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1 Inside MICHIGAN Weather STATE Partly cloudy and continued Profs Debate Hairy Cbins, I* warm, high near 80. Wednes» p. 3; Rights Bill Failure day’s forecast, warm with Discussed; p. 3; Talks Be» UNIVERSITY S' TAT scattered thundershowers. gins On World Trade, p. 5. East Lansing, Michigan P r ic e 10« Vol. 55, Humber 138 Tuesday, May 5, 1964 P ickets P rotest Bricklayers' Union Pickets ( . R ejected S tory Students picketed M orrill Hall Monday in protest of a story which did not appear in the Red Cedar Review, the campus literary maga zine. A fiction piece involving homosexuality was written by an MSU sophomore and submitted totheRedCedarReviewfor approval. The Halt Campus Construction author received word that her story had been turned down. The story had been wrjtten for the coed’s creative writing p All Others Expected c la s s , and the p ro fe sso r, V irg il ; Scott, adviser to the Review, suggested she submit it to the m agazine. To Be At Jobs Today The staff members of the Re view read the story and submitted it to the editor, Jim Cash, Grand Wage Dispute Believed Rapids junior. Cash liked the story and found it "worthy of To Have Triggered Strike publication." The protesting students handed out printed statements to pass Picketing by local bricklayers haulted m a ing students which claimed, "both jor campus construction projects.Friday and the faculty adviser and the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters M onday, but all unions except the bricklayers agreed that the story was worthy ON will be back on the job today. of being printed. The Provost of the University agreed. However, p f e i f e . The strike began Friday when a contract these (-men, fearing of possible ran out between the Bricklayers, Masons, legislative disapproval, insisted STRIKE that the story be killed." a n d P l a s t e r e r s o f Cash said Scott approved the America Local No. story. Another adviser, Carl 31 and the Michigan Hartman, associate professor Newsmen chapter of Associa of English, recommended that Cash obtain the support of a LOCAL 31 ted General Contrac "higher official" in case any to rs of A m e r i c a . one should protest the story on Awarded moral grounds, Cash said. A r e a construction Cash went to Provost Howard management is han Neville, who told Cash that the STUDENT PROTEST-Concerned over the recent alleged censorship of the campus literary CONSTRUCTION STOPS-Bricklayers protesting the lack Pulitzers decision rested between the staff dling all negotiations magazine, Red Cedar Review, students picketed Morrill Hall Monday. Censorship was said to of a work contract stopped construction on the Fee-Akers NEW YORK i.fi-Three of the and advisers of the Red Cedar dormitory sites Friday. Work has not yet resumed. involve a sophomore’s article, written f o r a creative writing class, which was submitted to 1964 Pulitzer Prizes in journal through the contrac Review . _ Photo by Gary Shumaker the Review with high recommendations. Photo by Larry Fritzlan ism were awarded Monday for tor’s association. Money seemed to be the prob new spaper attacks on fraud and lem. The question was Whether corruption. The hidden dispute seems to or not to take the chance of The St. Petersburg, F 1 a., center around wages. printing the story and having it Tim es received the Pulitzer Gold No unions working on MSU pro received so badly that the appro Report Will Restrict medal for public service for a jects crossed the bricklayers priations for the Review for next year-long campaign to uncover picket lines, but the union de year would be nil, or throwing School Districi Case fraudulent spending of public cided they will not hold them caution to the wind, Cash said. Grosser Petitioning funds in the Florida State Turn to this any longer. pike Authority. "Our committee met Monday He said he was willing to print Coeds who w e r e cam pused of students, said. "They know the Norman C. Miller of the Wall and we felt we were penalizing the story but understands after the April 25 grasser will be rules of the University. Whether Street Journal won the general other trades by picketing their Hartman’s position. "Actually, Denied Court Review jobs, ’’ said Robert Misener, able to petition their case only you drink or not, if there is al prize for local reporting for his he was the only one who was if they were not at the parties in cohol at a party, you are a part story of a multimillion dollar chairman of the negotiating com really thinking of the magazine,” cially integrated. That decision WASHINGTON T) - - The Su basis, including assignment of Shiawassee Cbunty. of it and must beheld respon fraud in vegetable o ils. mittee for the union. "Tuesday Cash said. preme Court refused Monday to teachers, principals, supervi was announced May 17, 1954. The incident, is being investi s ib le .” The award for special local we will have pickets only on The Gary decision let stand a However, Cash resigned his upset a ruling that school boun sors and supporting personnel. gated now to determ ine who was Fuzak added that he was well reporting went to reporters those jobs involving bricklay post as editor last week "be daries need not be revamped to The Duval County, Fla., school ruling by the U.S. circuit court at the grasser and who was not. aware of the many facets of the A1 V. Gaudiosi and Ja m e s V. ing.’ ’ Construction was halted on the cause there wasn’t enough sup force integration when they are board had contended that the in Chicago The final report w^ll be accepted incident and the many differing Magee and photographer Fred Bio-Chemistry Building, Chem port for the story.” honestly drawn with no intention court’s 1954 and 1955integration as the determining factor. circumstances involved. erick A. Meyer of the Phila to segregate the races. rulings dealt solely with ad In addition, students who were But, when more than 100 stu delphia Bulletin, for their ex istry Building and Fee and Akers While only the Gary, Ind., mission of children to schools on a rreste d an d did not consum e dents are involved and some ac pose of a numbers racket and residence halls. school system is directly in a non-racial basis and not to liquor, and students who were tion must be taken, that action police collusion in South Phila Wesley J e 11 e m a , secretary- volved, the court’s action may school employees. over 21 and attended the party is taken with regard to the ma delphia. manager of the contractor’s as 5 Sailors Killed have a broad impact on other M onday's two o rd e rs, one a may not claim that they were jority, he said. A dditionally, Mrs. Hazel sociation, said federal and state cities where compliance with in- setback for school integration "illegally detained," as far as “The disciplinary action taken Brannon Smith of the weekly mediators had been called in, At Guantanamo gegration demands could force forces, the other a victory,come the University is concerned. against the women students was Lexington, Miss., Advertiser, but he did not know when union many students to be transported almost 10 years after the court "A nyone who attended t h e not a punishment for their atten won the prize for editorial writ and management would get to WASHINGTON l,P!-Five Navy- by bus across town. handed down its h isto ric ruling grasser knew that he was taking dance at the grasser," Laurine ing for the “ whole volume of gether to mediate the contract _ enlisted men were killed at the The high court's refusal to hear that public schools must be ra- a chance," John A. Fuzak, dean Fitzgerald, assistant dean of her work during the year, in dispute. Guantanamo Naval Base Saturday the Gary case does not neces women, said. "It is the respon cluding attacks on corruption." Jeltema and the union spokes- - after they walked into a mine sarily mean it agrees with the sibility of the coed to return The 1964 Pulitzer Prize for man said little about the wage field, the Navy announced Mon back to the dormitory on tim e." lower court’s decision. Thus, this (continued on page 5) dispute. day. inconclusive status is a dis “The present rate for journey T hey w ere on liberty from th eir appointment to many on both Varied Issues On Ballots man bricklayers if $4.43 per ship, the amphibious assault ves sides of the issue. hour,’’ Jeltema said. sel Boxer, which is at Guantan The question could return to The present wage rate seemed amo for what the Navy called the tribunal on other appeals like a "healthy package,” he said, "routine fleet training exer and the justices might decide but he conceded that construction c is e s .” then to hear arguments and lay In Seven Elections Today workers were off much of the "Authorities at Guantanamo down th eir own view s. time in bad weather. fo r 2 gu bernatorial, 4 Senate and can only speculate as to the cause The court refused also to re WASHINGTON (fi-Voters in six Also drawing attention are Misener said the bricklayers 63 House seats. Voters w ill of the tragedy, since there are no view a decision that Negro pupils states and the District of Colum some sharply contested Senate (continued on page 3) choose delegates to cast 67 Re known witnesses,” the announce are entitled to have their entire bian will cast ballots today on nom ination r a c e s in Ohio and publican and 153 Democratic m ent said.