The Miami Hurricane Vol

The Miami Hurricane Vol. 4S- No. 57 Friday. AucutT 16. 1968 Phonf 284-4401 UBS Militant Jailed After Riot r Thompson Said Collins, Music Prof., Found Shot He Was Studying \ Department Chm. Causes of Riot As rioting faded away from the Apparent Suicide streets of Liberty City last Fri- Wayne Thompson, RUBIN day. one of By BRUCE the United Black Students HurriCMt Ntwi Eiittr sitters last Spring at President Henry Dr. Thomas C. Collins, 54, King Stanford's office, was ar- the four-year chairman of the rested by Metro policemen, and Department of Graduate Studies charged with assault and battery in Music, was found dead in his on a policeman. office last Friday with a bullet in mH Hi his right temple. Thompson, a senior government major, was in the Liberty City Sgt. H. O. Smith, of the Dade area as part of a study County Sheriff's Department, said being death apparently suicide, conducted by UM for the De- the was partment Housing although note not of and Urban a was found Development by the body. in community relations for the negro and Cuban Collins was found slumped on parts of the city. a couch in his Music building office by a cleaning woman early Police said that he was driving in the morning next to a 20- west on 62nd street and that upon gauge shot gun. • • "8 *: coming to NW 8th Ave. He made He joined the UM staff in 1946 : a left turn almost running down as an instructor in woodwinds. I one of their men on the scene, UM Photo Stiff In 1951, he was named chairman directing traffic after last week's of the department of woodwinds. violence. he In 1956 was appointed chair- Thompson said he had City? man of the department that Liberty of music made the left turn previously and education. He became chairman that he not to in section of Miami which made national headlines did come close the It rould that of the department of graduate Metro policeman. for the Magic City while Republicans were conventioncering in studies in 1964. Beach, residence halls last Miami hut it isn't. It's the men's year Collins He had been in the area for Coral Gables policemen searched for was named one of 11 when Miami. Metro and a outstanding the past week trying to get inter- allegedly shot at a policeman while he instructors on the "sniper" which had Metro j UM campus in 1967. He was views with several of th< com- bike The sniper turned out to be a freshman rode his down U.S.I. scheduled to do research fall munity leaders for the federal bull whip which made a sharp cracking noise and the three this with a at the University of Scheffield, study in connection with causes police departments were thoroughly embarrased. See stories about England. He taught the first sum- of the riot. the riots and real snipers on page two by Hunicane correspondents mer session and had been on who despite the danger when into the riot area last week. After had vacation since August 1. he made the turn, Thompson added, he parked his addition to his teaching du- In car and went into a cafeteria ties, he was a member of the where he for about ten UM self study stayed committee for the minutes while having a soft School Off The Wire of Music. drink. He is survived by his wife. Q After he left the store, police Marjorie, and their two daugh- ters, WASHINGTON AP—Surveys released by the National Advisory Mrs. Blakeney Richard 28, arrested and handcuffed him. Commission of Cnil Disorders indicate that the Negro mass is far and Nancy, 23. ■bS*' b*w1 He was then taken to a make- less revolutionary in its outlook than its more militant spokesmen. shift jail at the Armory for The great majority do not propose to withdraw from America; they , questioning about the incident. want equal status in it. Eventually he was charged The surveys of riot participants said while most Negroes disap- | battery prove of the violence, they nevertheless "feel that the riots have ; with assault and on a beneficial consequences by increasing white society's concern to i policeman. Saturday morning, improve the Negro's condition." after contacting family and SIAGON AP—The chairman of the Siagon Students' Association re- i bail bondsmen he was al- cently sentenced in absentia to 10 years at hard labor by a military | lowed to leave the jail. court, has surrendered and will be retried today, according to the official Vietnam Press. Bond was set at $1,500. Ar- Dang charged with responsibility for the Nguyen Trung has been raignment proceedings are pend- publication Sinh Vien—Student, a newspaper published by the of ing. 25,000 member students' association. The government charged the paper published pro-Communist stories and sentenced the editor,; Thompson said that after ar- Truong Con, to years at Nguyen five hard labor. I I 1 resting him police kept asking MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay AP—This capital certain to have more * BBBWBVl «■ BB K I * him questions as to the reason bloody student riots as public opposition to President Jorge Pacheco it' - I Areco's tough policies steadily increase. of his visit to the area, whether A score of students, policemen and bystanders were hospitalized '<' he owned the car he was driving RON UV» with bullet wounds or other injuries suffered in daily violence that I and the validity of his driver's began Friday University SI'MMF'.R St HOOL needn't so last with a police raid on the of Uruguay. be bad. as these L'Mers prove in a licence. He added that police as- Although the invasion of the traditionally inviolate university rare showing of the extreme skill involved in th art of jumping. i sumed he was guilty of some- campus was the immediate cause of the student demonstrations, they It is rumored-that the view from the top board is excellent, but few thing. also are protesting conditions which have drastically reduced public THOMAS C. COLIJNS brave souls venture to such heights. Most prefer the free swimming below, since the backing for the president: Runaway inflation, the rising cost of Jar, 2f, 1114 - AtfUt I, 1IM pool especially view from below is Metro police said his arrest and living, suspension cf constitutional guarantees, press censorship,, supposed to be like the French Riviera after a rainstorm! process was drafting of striking government employees into the armed forces, routine. alleged police brutal-ty, official mismanagement and corruption in high government ciroles. The police caused the long festering crisis, when they raided the Two Top To Join UM Faculty university, long considered a hotbed of admirers of Fidel Castro Professors and Mao Tsetung. They discovered incendiary bombs, bullets and In Today'n 'Cane other subversive material on the campus. In In Fall MEXICO CITY AP—More than 2,000 government troops and riot Chemistry And Management In-depth reports of the police faced an angry band of recent riot Page 2 500 students in Mexico City recently, Two nationally recognized pro- the chemistry faculty of the Uni- visiting professor of management as week-long I demonstrations continued. fessors in the fields of chemistry versity of California at Santa in the School of Business Admin- Entertainment Section Troops were sent into the youth- 1 University of Mexico to clear•out and management will join the Barbara. istration. 3 ful rioters, although traditionally Pace in Latin America, universities are iUM faculty in September. Dr. Wellman's principal re- ; Dr. Rosen last year wasawarded off limits to the police the . and commen- and armed forces. Editorials A chemist whose work has search interests are in the area a Fulbright Lectureship and was PARIS AP—Edgar Faure, the new minister of education, announced of the and properties visiting professor tary Page 4 come to national attention during structure at the Univer- that 6,000 of the addition.*! 12,000 university students expected in of metals bonded to organic mol- sity of the past year is joining the UM London. Presidential Candidate Paris this fall, will be ace immodated in the big white headquarters ecules. He received his A.B. degree built for the North Atlan ic Treaty Organization. chemistry faculty according to Senator McGovern's ' Clarence G. Stuckwiach,! The new UM faculty member from Antioch College, his Mas- daughter on Although students dislike NATO as a symbol of the cold war, they Dr. arrested chairman of the department. 'has received the Award of the ter's from the University of dope charge* Page C are even more critical of i 'aure, so no matter what he does large (' American Institute of Chambers Illinois and Ph.D. from Purdue numbers of students will find it inadequate. Dr. Keith M. Wellman, 33, has: in recognition of his work. University. An interview with All- Young revolutionary studarts, trading on the generation gap, are 'been appointed an associate pro- Dr. Ned Rosen of the 1 New He is author of 20 publications American Ted Hend- to very likely cause a revolution in October—a critical month, as If«-ssor coming to UM from the York State School of Industrial in the fields of industrial and ricks Page B high school will just be starting, and university students will just 1:State University of New York at! and Labor Relations at Cornell social psychology and labor re-1 be returning from their vat ations. Buffalo. Before that he was on University, will come to UM as lations.

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