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THE NEW HAMPSHIRE VOL. 57 NO. 21 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1967 DURHAM, N.H. Two Day Protest May Start Dec. 15 Of Dow Chemical Senate, RHAC Urge Vacation Change Christmas vacation may start five tacted John B. Hraba, acting dean Many students who would regularly Proves Peaceful days early. of the School of Technology and chair­ have jobs during the Christmas vaca­ tion are being turned down this year. By Lee Rosenblatt The Student Senate and the Resi­ man of the University Senate Sched­ uling Committee, and expressed their Their employers can get students from More than forty students, faculty dent Halls Advisory Council are urg­ other schools to start work on the members, and concerned Durham resi­ ing the re-scheduling of vacation so suggestions for re-scheduling, “ We will consider the request made sixteenth. dents peacefully demonstrated against it will start on Friday, December 15, by RHAC to look into changing the “ Because ofthis,” P arr said, “ Some the Dow Chemical Corporation Mon­ It is presently scheduled to begin Wednesday, December 20 and run Christmas vacation schedule,” said students are cutting classes the eigh­ day and Tuesday. Hraba. “ I am trying to arrange a teenth, nineteenth, and twentieth,” The group picketed in front of Hud­ through January 3. meeting of the scheduling committee Both Keene and Plymouth State Col­ dleston Hall where a Dow recruiter The Senate unanimously approved this week.” leges, the other two-thirds of the was interviewing potential employees. a recommendation urging the change “ This year’s schedule is a con­ University system, afe getting out The purpose of the demonstration “ to facilitate travel and employment” . tinuation of the schedule we’ve had on December fifteenth. was to publicize and “ protest against The recommendation will go to the for the last two years,” Hraba l ex­ Another complaint registered by all businesses which participate in the University Senate Scheduling Commit­ plained. many students concerns Durham’s Vietnam war,” explained Bruce Mc- tee and hopefully be brought before “ Students are dissatisfied with get­ transportation problem. Sheehy, the chairman of the Students the Senate at their special meeting Monday, according to John Rodat, ting out for Christmas vacation on Students who come from a long for a Democratic Society (SDS). the twentieth instead of the Friday distance and are forced to take a “ Dow has been picked nationally Student Senate President. before, the fifteenth,” said Neal Parr, plane home will be caused extra ex­ as a symbol for participation in the The Executive Board of the Resi­ president of RHAC. pense if they don’t leave before the war,” emphasized Midge Hayden, the dent Halls Advisory Council has con­ nineteenth. After this date students freshman secretary-treasurer of SDS. “ As such, a picket of Dow has more w ill not be able to ride half fare, as impact on the public than pickets of they usually can. Parr said that there is little hope all the businesses that participate in University Senate Defeats Motion; that the Faculty Senate w ill change the war.” The Dow Chemical Corporation has the schedule now. “ There are dances, been chosen because it is the major plays, and exams scheduled for the Denies Students Full Voting Rights three extra days. It would be too manufacturer of napalm, an explosive The University Senate defeated a mo­ install at least one student member complicated to postpone all the events,” jellied petroleum used in the Vietnam tion to give full voting privileges to two with the right to vote on each standing he said. war. student representatives at a meeting in committee of the Senate was returned He added that there is no reason why Monday, an average of fifty demon­ the Senate-Merrimack room of the to the Faculty Council for further con­ strators alternately marched and lined this should happen again next year, Memorial Union yesterday. sideration. “ Since students pay tuition they should up in front of Huddleston Hall. The Senate voted 32 to 15 in favor of Kenneth K. Andersen, chairman of Many carried signs displaying such have some say in vacation schedules. the motion. However, a three-fourths the Rules Committee, submitted a r e ­ The problems that have come up this messages as, “ Dow Products Stick majority was required for passage. vision of the rules concerning the mem­ Better; Saran Wrap, Handy Wrap, year are a result of non-considera­ Raymond Erickson, chairman of the bership of the Advisory Committee on tion on the part of the faculty, since NAPALM” and, “ Hell No!” Faculty Council and member of the Discipline. During Monday's picket few passers- it is the Faculty Senate that makes the Senate, said the motion’ s defeat was, Grant said the revisions would ex­ schedule,” he c6ntinued. “ This non­ by showed any interest, but Tuesday “ personally discouraging” . He added tend new membership to the Asso­ nearly a hundred on-lookers gathered consideration stems from the faculty that he did not feel the votes against the ciate Dean of Women and two students not knowing student problems.” in front of Huddleston. motion were necessarily “ in opposition not on MJB or WJB. Robert C. Keesey, the Dean of Stu­ to student involvement” in forming Uni­ dents, and Arthur W. Grant, Assistant versity policy. to President McConnell, went “ to make Erickson said a motiwi has been sure we do all that is necessary to in­ passed in the Faculty Council to study WUNH Manager Resigns sure order and peace, and the safety the “ policy-making apparatus of the Stephen Thompson, General Manager for the job of general manager. This and freedom of individuals.” University” . He indicated that one of WUNH-FM Radio, submitted his committee will then pass along the Expressive Observers of the reasons for this study was resignation last Thursday night at a names of two candidates to the ex- Most of the observers stopped to concern for student participation in meeting of the WUNH-FM Board of ectutive board of the radio station. watch the protest simply because they the legislative procedure of the Uni­ Governors. The executive board will interview were curious, but a substantial number versity. the candidates and recommend one wanted to express their hostility and The Senate unanimously approved His resignation will become effec­ tive December 21. person to the Board of Governors. outrage to the demonstrators. About a motion “ that the officers of the The new general manager will not ten students lined up along the side­ Senate, or their delegates, be autho­ For the next three weeks Thompson take office until after Christmas vaca­ walk and faced the pickets with jeers rized to give a factual account of is on leave of absence. Robert Stremba, tion. and signs which read, “ Destroy the Senate meetings to the press” . Assistaat General Manager, is acting “ I do not feel his resignation re ­ VC, Use Saran Wrap,” and “ If Not This motion is in contrast to the general manager in Thompson’ s ab­ flects any personnel problems within Napalm, Then Gas?” previous Senate, policy which made sence. the radio station,” said William Gils- B ill Sheffield, a junior, commented, no provision for press coverage. A nominations committee was set dorf, advisor to the station and instruc­ “ the war is creating an economic boom A motion of the Faculty Council to up early this week to screen candidates tor of Speech and Drama. in this country, thus providing many jobs for people who want to work. Some of the people I have seen parti­ cipating don’t have anything to do be­ sides protesting. They should be working.” Chris Herbert, a freshman, has a different reason for protesting against the protest. He said, “ I’ m not sure napalm is dropped on babies. I think it’ s used to support our groimd troops. “ If they’ re protesting napalm, they’re protesting against a way of killing,” Herbert continued. “ The inference is that they have a better way to kill people.” Participants in the protest, especial­ ly the faculty members, were disgusted with some of the spectators. Paul T. Brockelman, assistant pro­ fessor of Philosophy, said, “ I thinkthe views of those holding the signs were atrocious.” He objected to their war­ like messages, but recognized their right to exhibit the signs, - At the conclusion of Wednesday’ is demonstration, McSheehy said, “ We hope we reached some people. It is Pickets and anti-pickets were “ signs of the times” in front of Huddleston early sort of a perpetural reminder there this week, when SDS demonstrated against Dow Chemical’ s manufacture of napalm, is a war. Left and Rk an explosive jellied petroleum used in the Vietnam war. Wednesday, THE MEW MAMPSHIBC December 5, 1967 Graduate Student University Calendar Wednesday, December 6 Hotel-Motel Workshop Union Wins A Honda Film Society When Don Strassberg, a psy­ ‘‘I had it in my room for a 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Paul Arts M-213 chology graduate student, found while, but my room is so small University: "Antigone" out he had won the Honda motor­ that I was practically sleeping cycle WUNH-FM radio was giving with it,” he said. The smell 8 p.m. Hennessey Theatre away, he didn’ t belive it. of the gasoline and motor oil Physics Lecture in the Honda ‘ ‘ made my room “ A friend called me the after­ 8 p.m. DeMerritt noon before and told me ‘ You smell like a garage,” Strass­ won the Honda.’ I was almost berg added, “ so I put it some­ Young Democrats Meeting going to believe it when I realized place else.” 7:30 p.m. Senate Merrimack, MUB the drawing wasn’ t until the next Over Thanksgiving vacation he day,” he said.

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