University of Cincinnati News Record. Friday, May 23, 1969. Vol. LVI, No
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University' of Cincinnati,' •• ,*, N'EW S ·R'E.•. CO.RD'- .. , ... Published Tu e sday s and Fridays during the Ac ad ernic Year except a" sr hcdu lcd. J \. Voi..,.56 Cincinnati, Ohio, 'Fri,day, May 23, 1969 No. 50 Student Dlsorders Unfurl On CampusCQmmunitYi ]: Administration,U"BA ,Po,.der 'university"~-Futur.,e. by Doug Sack calm Wednesday night. The afternoon at 11 :00 a.m, in front of McMicken and moved Cheryl .Chmelik -on the second News Editor tension and violent emotion of of Beecher Hall where the Following ,the first major through the first floor chanting floor. The dissidents entered the Tuesday afternoon simmered all United Black Association I held student disturbance' in its but not y,et entering classrooms classroom and told Mrs. Chmelik day Wednesday' but failed to its closed meeting. Officials :of in- session. The first class' that the class was over; the history, the University of , erupt .in new action. UBA there discussed their plans Cincinnati campus was tense but disrupted was. an . advanced instructor and her students sat 'The situation began ~~~y_ and intentions. They adjourned speakiI.?-~class conducted by Mrs. (Continued onpage 6) until 12:30 p.m: / when they reconvened on the Union Bridge ,~~~~~~-.c...-.c~..-..c:~"""~..-.c..-.c .••..~ .••.. to explain their demands .to other students and to enlist IBonner Issues Letter . I support. Once on the Bridge, a black leader using a bullhorn read the ITo..Students, Colleaques I 18 demands to the assembled students. He continued with I Editor's Note: , , general statements about alleged 1 .The following letter was issued Wednesday afternoon by !Jr. j -racist policies at UC and I Thomas Bonner, Prouostfor AC.,adem.icAffairs, as students were i concluded by leading the march , gathering. on the University Center bridge. The statement is his , to the administration building. I endeavor to explain the University's' activities in •.the past year , A crowd estimated. at 150 concerning .the desires and demands the Blacks have made since I black and white students then last May. _ e nt exe d the administration ''I think it important that ev.eryone at the University be aware, of , .building .where students were what' has been done in the past twelve months to honor the I. informed that the President was I commitment made last May 'to broaden the academic experience I out' to lunch and would -not of Black as well as White Students on our .campus. Most of the i return until 2:30 p.m.: Black I developments described below are not widely known among , leaders told a secretary, that Dr. ' faculty members and students and indeed- among some Black , Langsam had' until 1 :30- to students on campus. The University has deliberately not. sought return. 1 publicity for its ef,forts becau.se it b,elieves in quiet a,Ction rather ,I At approximately 1: 20 p.m. than rhetoric. They are being made known now in order to clarify , Dr. Langsam came into the foyer the record in the light of contradictory statements andrumors , through the back door and' was that abound on the campus. If we can return to the job at hand "I 'i1 handed the. 18 points. Black without further interruptions, I pledge that these efforts' will be I HISTORY IS RECOR.DED in strange ways at time8,and the picfUie leaders told Dr.' Langsam that he .I continued wifh vigor and. commitment. The steps that have been , above tells the story ~The calendar- is an authentic memo found by an had twenty-four hours in which I taken include the following:. I NR photographer on a desk in the lobby of the Administi'ation Building to I reply. Voices from, the 1. All of the United Black Association's recommendations of 1 Tuesday afternoon. - (NR Photo by R~d ~ennington) gathering asked that he reply. ~ay" ~96,8, conc':.rnj~~_B.lac;k Literat,?!e,and~Black liist?ry" now I ilftliiediilrely i'rtd'""the i\; bulIho'rii eXist In- the'~gllSli""an(r HIstory Departments irespectively. In, , was offered to the, President for addition, the new course's in Race Relations" Modern Africa, and I Emergency .Senate Hears comment. Swahili that were asked for last spring have allbeen started. i The President of the 2. Involvement of'the University in community service and , University began-by sayl!1g that ',. programs, as recommended by the DBA, has 'gro:wn appreciably, , DBA Representatives ,"I'll need some time to study " UBA was represented on the Advisory Committee to Dr. Richard , your proposals". Leaders then Baker, Director of Community Relations, that led to th,e ,- ~ by Lew Moores , appointment' of Mr. Paul Henry to a post in representing the News Editor stating," ... disruption of classes is formally asked Langsam that a violation of :student rights 'and "classes be terminated" at the, 1 University in these important programs." The Student Volunteer I An, emergency meeting called serves only to alienate the University until his reply was ,Center under Mrs. Dorothy Hardy is actively engaged in involving, issued. ' ' ,. .c, Tuesday night by the Student, majority of, the Student Body." both the University and its students in community service. e Senate exchanged talk with The resolution passed with 22 The President didn't reply but I 3. .An off-campus office under the direction of Mr. Hershel· , representatives from the United Senators agreeing, 'six 'dissenting shook his head in a negative 1 Hardy was established to develop a registry of non-discriminatory I Black Association as well as and two abstentions. ' manner. At this point -the ! housing. Mr. Hardy works with a committee on which UBA is - passing a resolution submitted by Discussion' was heard from the meeting broke up and Langsam , represented to make this registry as complete as possible and to , Senators John Appel and Marc floor at the outset of the meeting left; as. did the students who , play a major role in ending discrimination irr-housing used by I Rubin. and a representative of the UBA gat h ere'd in front· of -the 1 University students. , _ I ., 4. The remaining recommendations of the UBA in May, 1968 i The meeting was called as an took time to explain the rationale administration building. The have been carried out, including UBA office.space, U~A Center, !. aftermath of class disruptions and behind the demands. He explained time was 1 :35 p.m. a that the demands had been as well as representation on the Undergraduate Advisory Council. demonstrations which pervaded Once outside the 18 points I' thoroughly gone over before their the campus for the afternoon. were againread to a larger group ~ 5. During 1968-69 a number of special programs were I issuance and that since the legal Senators Appel and Rubin took of students who had assembled spo~sore? in -\v.holeor in part by ~he University in A~ro-Am~ricap. 1 channels had failed to produce studies, including the noon - series under the chairmanship of ! note with the DBA stipulation and 'they were informed that the any results they had, to assume a Professor Wolf Roder., the Sesquicentennial lectures by John that they review in specific cases boycott of classes would began more forceful approach. The the hiring and firing offaculty, at 2 p.m, The crowd gathered Hope Franklin, .Ralph Ellison, and Darwin Turner, and the spokesman asserted that civil or numerous programs during Black History week. .' The resolution, in the form of a • and increased in size during the university rights weren't at issue 6. A number of special programs for the recruitment and .r e.e o nrme n d atl o n to the half hour before the actual here, but rather human rights. support of Black and minority students were launched or administration "expects the disruptions began. A countdown Whtm questioned about the • expanded during 1968:'69, including the Danforth graduate administration to implement these was in effect, counting the Black representation in the minutes leftunt.iI·2 p.m. At , program -and Project for Youth. Plans were developed for a demands wh ich the Senate different departments of the minority manpower resourcesprogram and a summer institute for supports as quickly as possible, exactly 2 p.m., the students, I University, and if it amounted to students preparing to enter law school. We have more Black realizing however , that some of the black arid white, began moving tokenism, he replied, "We do, not towards McMicken Hall to students enrolled than any University in the State with the demands may not be immediately look upon it as tokenism, but as . exception of Central State and more th~n Columbia, 'Berkeley, feasible." enforce the boycott. The I justice," , Wisconsin, Duke, San Francisco; or Chicago. - . Senators Rubin and Appel both 'students entered the south door 7. Thr<:>,'ugh the sU~P,.,ort of indi~dual fac.ulty.and sta~f members, , expressed an anathema to the c the Martm Luther King Scholarship wasestabbshed this year. violent disruption of classes I I r 8. On the recommendation of the departments concerned, a i , new program of. Fellowships in Black History arid Literature was , Graduate Students ,launched. Five .prospeCtive college and university teaCher,Swill b,e I Adopt _Constitution trained initially under this program. I I. 9. ·:Most important of all, the number <:>f.Black,adIn;inistrators, " , faculty. members, and counselors was mcreased this year. In The Graduate Student " addition to such important. full-time appointme~ts as Professor Association unamiously I ' Harry Groves, Thomas Je.nkins, Eugene Cash, Dons, Clement, and , adopted their new constitution John Bryant, a.