Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC May 1972 Daily Egyptian 1972 5-25-1972 The aiD ly Egyptian, May 25, 1972 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_May1972 Volume 53, Issue 152 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, May 25, 1972." (May 1972). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1972 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in May 1972 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Senate to hold poll on paying I. for damages fJai1y 7igyptian After more than an hour of dt>bate, thE' Student St>nate voted 15 to 6 WE'd ltu"IdIIr, ".., 25, 1m - Val. 53. NIl. 152 nl'Sday night to hold a campus referen dum Tul.'Sdav to determine whE'thE'r or not thE' St>naie should assume full finan cial rl'Sponsibility for damagl'S sufft'rl'd by Carbondale merchants during rt'Cent antiwar demonstrations. \\) ThE' same bill called for Carbondale Mayor Neal Eckert to assume full resPonsibility for calling a curfew on Thursday May L1 . which indirectly rl'Sulted in the arre t of nearly 70 tudents, by using his full persuasive wer LO have chargl'S dropped against all those arrl'Sted on that day. Eckert. who was prl'Sent at thE' m('('ting, told thE' senators hE' called thE' curfew that Thursday night bt'cause ,~ s tuden~ were blocking thE' interst'Ction of .S. 51 and Campus Drive and that it wa - reported to him that a por tion of th crowd were talking about "trashing thE' town." " Basing m.