Dow Protests University Suspends Five Others
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VOL. IV, NO. THE47 Serving theOBSERVER. Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College Community THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1969 Five students expelled in CIA -Dow protests University suspends five others by Cliff Wintrode The suspended and expelled Observer Associate Editor demonstration Tuesday afternoon. students have until next Tuesday Five Notre Dame students Riehle refused to disclose the at 5 p.m. to file an appeal with have been expelled and fivenames of those students involved Father Riehle or the sentences' suspended for blocking 4he and said they would be notified will be declared final. entrance to the Dow and CIA by letter of the charges being Riehle added that the recruiters on Tuesday afternoonbrought against them. sentences of those students who announced Father Riehle, Dean Riehle said the charges against appeal their cases will be stayed of Students, at a press the ten were based on his until the disposition of their conference yesterday afternoon.personal identification of them cases. Riehle said that no action has standing in the doorway, the These students would be been taken against non-studentscollection of ID’s, and on charged with participation in an in the disruptive activities andphotographs taken at the scene. unregistered demonstration, which is a lesser offense than that no decision has been made The additional charges will be participation in a disruptive whether or not to initiate anybased on evidence garnered from action. demonstration which the ten the confiscated ID’s and hive been charged with. He added that there is a photographs taken during the chance that more than the ten demonstration. Riehle added Riehle appointed th e will face disciplinary action for that all confiscated ID’s have membership of the proposed Notre Dame Dean of Students Rev. James Riehle their actions during the been returned. University Court to be the apellate hearing body. The body will be tripartite consisting of Potential disorder becomes peaceful rap two students, two faculty members, and two members of any questions about his leaving. by Jim Holsinger innocent until proven guilty.rented by the corporations for the administration. He did give a statement to Mr. The demonstration against the The absurdity of the rule the prupose of recruiting. Riehle said he expects the Phillip Faccenda, Special presence on campus of showed up yesterday.’. Dedrick The recruiters, who had appellate body to follow the Assistant to Father Hesburgh, interviewers from the Dow said. He also stressed the need conducted some of their procedures outlinted in the before he left which explained Chemical Company and the CIA fo r talk in g , listening, andinterviews before demonstrators judicial code legislation that Dow felt that it could ended yesterday when the thinking, but he said “the most recommended by the SLC and blocked the Placement Bureau achieve nothing by remaining on recruiters left the campus. added that the Court will be free important thing is to act.” doors Tuesday, left quickly campus. About 75 persons had Other students present at the yesterday morning. Mr James to decide its own procedures. Dow will finish the recruiting gathered in the rotunda of the protest questioned the future of King, the Dow recruiter, at another time. There are The proposed University Administration Building by 9:00 the Placement Bureau. Professor returned to Dow headquarters in interviews scheduled by Dow on Court is a part of the new a.m. planning to stop the James Massey, chairman of the Midland Michigan. judicial code passed by the interviews at the Placement cam pus again on February Student Life Council, who was Mr. King refused to answer 17-18. Student Life Council earlier this Bureau office. Any action toat the protest explained that a year but not yet approved by disrupt the normal functions ofsub-committee of the SLC will Father Hesburgh. The members the Placement Bureau would hold public hearings on the thus are working on anad hoc have been in direct violation ofPlacement Bureau, and warnedAppeals deadlibasis. an injunction obtained by thethat the news media may The members of the appelate Universiity on Tuesday from the escalate the demonstration into by John DiCola body are Professors William St. Josepph’s County Superior an id en tity clash between Sexton and James Kohn, Five of the demonstrators Court. students and administration. preventing the interviews from representing the faculty; Father who turned their ID cards over At 9:00 a.m., the time at Steve Moriarity, an alumnus being carried on. Ferdinand Brown, Associate to Rev. James Riehle Tuesday which the first interview had of Notre Dame, stretched the According to Rick Libowitz, Vice-President for Academic have been suspended and five been scheduled, Father David purpose of the demonstration to neither he, nor MacCarry, nor Affairs, and SLC member Burrell of the philosophy expelled from the University. Dedrick were participating in the include an educational Professor Leslie Foschio, Department announced to the The protesters may appeal the campaign. He asked the group obstruction of the doorways. representing the administration; demonstrators that the recruiters ruling to the University Court,The three were not among those how they could reconcile the and Thomas Bridenstine and had gone. Burrell suggested that through Riehle. If this appeal differences between the who turned over their ID cards James Chelich, representing the fails, they may take the case to even though the recruiters had University as a “knowledge to Fr. Riehle. Libowitz was not student body. gone the group should take some the ad hoc appellate board factory” and the classic role of asked for his ID, and Dedrick If the appeals are denied, time to discuss the issues of the appointed by Riehle, and then had his ID taken by Arthur t h e U niversity as a those students expelled may not protest. to Father Hesburgh. If all other developmental and educational Pears. seek readmission to Notre Dame “We should focus the reasons appeals are unsuccessful, the process. Libowitz and Dedrick have while those students suspended why we are here for the rest of Thomas Connelly, a veterandemonstrators may make a final not yet decided what steps they (continued on page 2) the community.” Burrell said. of the Vietnam War, and a appeal to the Board of Trustees. will take when the appeal in Professor James D ouglass of graduate student in the College T he ten involved in thecourt on Monday morning. the Non-Violent Studies of Business Administration at university action will be notifiedLibowitz has consulted Professor Panel talks on Department then asked the Notre Dame, then challenged the of their suspension or expulsionShaffer from the Law school and demonstrators to discuss what right of the protestors to block by mail. They then have fivewill probably speak to a South Black politics would be done if the recruiters legal entry to the Placement days in which to make their first Bend attorney before the returned. “The basic issue I Bureau by students desiringappeal to Riehle. hearing. by Jim Graif don’t think has had any interviews. He claimed that the Five demonstrators who “ We are still talking among “America has come to a fork resolution whatever.” Douglass students had the constitutional participated in the Dow-CIA ourselves as to what we should in the road where it must decide said. right to enter the Placement protest were served with a court do. It’s too early to say anything whether it will be a great nation Brian Mclnerny, one of theBureau and meet with the in ju n c tio n at six o’clockdefinite,” stated Libowitz. He or whether it will crumble students specifically mentionedrecruiters there. yesterday morning. The then added, “You don’t mind because of racism.” This remark in the University injunction,Connelly held the attention ofinjunction ordered the getting nailed for something youby Mr. Clarence Towns served as then asked the group to sit, but the group until he began to protestors, or their have done, but here is something a springboard for the discussion he told them to leave a corridor admonish them for using the representative, to appear in I didn’t even do.” on The Role of Blacks in so that people could pass nam es of Viet Nam war court at 1 1 00 a.m. on Monday Dedrick also is not sure just Political Parties. through the group. casualties in the October November 24. The restraining what action he will take. He Mr. Towns, a member of the The hour-long rap session Moratorium. Connelly blurtedorder war brought against the feels that the injunction broughtRepublican National Committee, which followed was rambling out in emotion, “Exploit the five demonstrators and their against him is unjust because he,served as M.C. on a panel which and disorganized. The people living, not the dead.’. His accomplices, who disrupted the like Libowitz, claims he did not included Mr. Robert Black, who spoke expressed widely comments raised mixed laughter interviews and prevented them attempt to stop the interviews. mayor of Hyland Park Michigan; varying views on what was theand applause, and the reactions from taking place. When asked why he thought Mr. John Kellogg, Cleveland city main issue of the demonstration. ended the exchange. The persons named in the he was singled out for the court councilman; and Mrs. Marjorie Student Body Vice President Some of the protestors court order are: Brian order, Dedrick said, “ 1 suppose Helman Parker, an active Fred Dedrick commented on the expressed the thought that the Mclnerney, Rick Libowitz, Tim it was because 1 talked to Father member of the Republican party impact of the application of university should not sponsorMacCarry, Fred Dedrick, and Riehle off and on, and 1 was organization in the district of Father Hesburgh’s fifteen the interviews of anySister Joanne Malone.