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W^t Butte Cfjromcle Volume 64, Number 46 Duke University, Durham, N.C. November 15 Charges prepared as students respond By Gordon Stevenson of Arts and Sciences, who is yesterday's Chronicle, will cause drawing up the charges, said the charges to be dropped, The participants in the yesterday that he will not publicly also said that he thinks there is a disruption of Symposium '68 release the names of those who will "good chance" that the pickets and Monday night are planning be charged. protest policy will finally be responses as the He said the students involved clarified. Administration is preparing to bring "will receive copies of the charges Tupp Blaekwell, a member of charges against them. when they have been formalized. It the Symposium committee and one The charges are still in the will be up to those students charged of the students admittedly involved process of being written up under to decide whether or not their in Monday night's alleged the provisions provided for in the names will be released publicly." disturbance, said "there was no Photo by Scott Sorensen pickets and protest policy August Pye, dean of the Law intent on the part of the students instituted this past summer. School and chairman of the hearing to stop the proceedings." Dr. Gerber of the Medical School discussing contraception. William Griffith, assistant dean committee, said yesterday that Michael Arlen, one of the there would be a committee speakers Monday night, contended Duke med prof me e ting in the afternoon to in a letter reprinted in yesterday's continue discussion of a general Chronicle, that "the appearance of hearing procedure for the pickets a disruption was created by the and protest policy. If there is time, completely voluntary and casual the proposed general procedure will decision of my fellow participants Calls pill 'satisfying be released to the University and myself to leave the stage." community for criticism, Pye said. Miss Blaekwell said she By Scott Sorensen complain that the use of condoms foams, but said that they are less But if the general procedure for participated in the program in the Staff writer interferes with sex play, Gerber effective than other methods. such offenses is not determined hopes that "it could continue and noted that "if properly handled by before charges are filed against become a more involved discussion "Most contraceptives are 100% those allegedly involved in the effective if used by the properly the female, the use of these devices Gerber devoted a large part of on the part of both audience and could become an integral act of sex his address to "The Pill", which he incident at Symposium Monday speakers." motivated individual". Dr. Gerber night, Pye explained that the of the Duke Medical School said considers the ' most Other members of the psycho-sexually satisfying" of committee will decide upon the Symposium committee expressed last night. "The best procedure to be used specifically at contraceptive", he added, "is the Gerber discussed several other, modern contraceptives. He said he dissatisfaction after Sunday night's believes, however, that if this drug their hearing. There will probably program and supported an attempt one that's used." less popular methods of not be time before the hearing for Gerber spoke on "Birth contraception. Intrauterine devices were not a contraceptive, the to make MOnday night's Federal Drug Administration would criticism of this procedure to be proceedings less stilted, she Control—Its Procedures and can be effective, he said, but effective, Pye implied. Implications" to an open meeting "somehow they get lost." Actually, not allow such a potent commodity explained. of the Delta Delta Delta sorority in no one understands how these on the market. "Twenty years of Miss Blaekwell said that a letter the Green Room of East Duke. devices work. Gerber feels that exhaustive test cases", Gerber said, Pete English, chairman of the will be written Friday by the According to Gerber, some users coitus interruption, an age-old "are not sufficient proof that Symposium committee, has made it students involved to explain their find condoms awkward, the method of birth control, is "often deleterious side effects do not clear to Griffith that his committee action publicly. prevalent criticism being "it's not psychologically difficult for the exist." does not want charges pressed. He Miss Blaekwell expressed her there when you want it." To avoid male." said that he "does not think that dissatisfaction with the application the disturbance caused a disruption of the pickets and protest policy in this inconvenience, he suggested All users of "The Pill", said "planning ahead." For those who He briefly mentioned vaginal of Symposium when considered in this case. She said she does not feel Gerber, should have annual physical its overall aspect." English does that Monday night's proceedings examinations. "If you're old not, however, feel that the are covered by the policy. "There enough for 'The Pill,' you're old committee's resolution of was no intent to deprive the enough for an annual pelvic," he November 13, printed in speakers of their rights," she said. Paletz suggests remarked. Gerber also advised regular users of "The Pill" to discontinue use for a period of one month each year to "flush the pipes symposium change and make sure you're good for another year." Kerr to speak j By John Howell media. None of these six, however, Staff reporter could make a definite commitment His comment that pill usage : David Paletz, assistant professor to come. often leads to enlargement of the Educator and industrial economist Clark Kerr will speak in Page : ; of political science, said yesterday Paletz made several suggestions breasts drew a mixed response from Auditorium at 8:15 Monday evening under the auspices of the :•. that one of the major faults of the regarding future Symposiums. He the crowd of 70 women and 10 Student Union Major Speakers Committee. Symposium Committee was that it said, "There should not be an men attending the lecture. President of the University of California during the Berkeley •:• "selected lesser people when time unequivocal commitment to having demonstrations in 1964, Kerr will talk about the student's role in >: got short." the Symposium every year if the the university and the university's function in society. The latter § Paletz, who was a member of the committee cannot get whom it Although there have been some subject is treated in Kerr's Uses of the University. committee and who also teaches a wants." reports of side effects induced by A public reception in the Theta Chi section will follow Kerr's :|: course on the mass media, added He added that there should be the use of oral contraceptives, address. :|: that the original people who were some inducement for the Gerber feels the alternative, "the On Monday afternoon at 3:30 in 136 Social Science, Kerr, Dr. :\ approached about appearing in the Symposium participants to prepare hazards of the 'disease of pregnancy,' are comparable." Douglas Knight and ASDU President Wade Norris will conduct a :| Symposium would have been (Continued on Page Eight) seminar on "The Role of the Student in the University." A forum 3 "splendid." Tuesday afternoon on the main quad will evaluate and analyze $ According to him, the Kerr's speech and views. Symposium should have had an Born in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania, in 1911, Kerr attended j: entirely different group on the Chief Bear quits 7 Swarthmore College, Stanford University and the University of •• panel. "The committee," he said, " California. After holding teaching positions at several colleges, Kerr :• wanted Pauline Kael, the film critic By Steve Letzler position. became chancellor of the Berkeley campus in 1952. In 1958 he jj of the New Yorker and one of the staff writer During his term as head of the became president of the University and remained in that position ' best critics in the country," and W.C.A. Rear, former chief of the security force at Duke, Bear until his dismissal in 1967. either Robert Aldrich or Billy security campus police force enlarged the force substantially to In an interview with Newsweek magazine last year, Kerr advocate*: :j Wilder, "two Hollywood directors resigned as of this month. Bear had cope with the growing security student participation—"even final authority"—in many judicial :• who have produced films which been head of the force since March, demands because of increased matters." |: have been both artistically and 1961. student enrollment. Bear also "But when it comes to legislation of basic rules, such as the use of \ commercially successful." It also No replacement has been named helped to improve the security university property," Kerr continued, "the students are not very ; wanted James Aubrey, former head to suceed Bear. H. F. Bowers, forces communications by experienced. Responsibility for making the very basic rules has to be •* of CBS and an "arch-villain" of Duke's manager of operations, is completing a communications plan with the administration or the Regents [Trustees] after consultation • television, and either Norman presently in charge of the force and which had been in the planning with the faculty and students." Mailer or Stan Freburg. is expected to continue as head of stages before he came. Kerr also feels that the faculty should share responsibility in \ Paletz added that this the force until a replacement is Bowers was reticent on the decision making, that it is better they be in on decisions than "stand i combination of participants would hired. At this point, however, reason for Baer's resignation, and outside as a union." have been more balanced in terms Bowers is himself the prime would not comment on Bear's of their attitudes about the mass candidate for the department head decision to resign.