The Trail, 1970-05-08
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Four Killed at Kent - Nation's Colleges Revolt Cambodia, has provoked a Wednesday over 250 colleges and crowd of students, and small guardsmen had shot into the national wave of indignation. universities were on strike]. In rocks were thrown at the crowd of students, the highway The Student Mobilization North Dakota, for example, where helmeted troops from both sides. patrol issued an emphatic Committee and the National the national wire services said "All of a sudden," said Kirsch, statement saying they had sighted Student Association have called there was no strike action the "they (the National Guard) no snipers. for a national day of mourning state university was shut down turned around and got on their The final attempt this Friday for the four slain Tuesday to protest the Kent State knees together." He said he heard explanation was that guar h stude Bison Kr d no order he S. 2 troops all ng the ys 1 version of the Ohio. osition e e Gov. slay a t ediate be nin re. st corn n o . .tuden s we guar werw il4 icphrov d spite' e freque shootit gs g shotg ded by }fie Nati9n a r came g do guard n in , b k ghetto r strike. en, three of the ay. Fred ge 22 s in .nt yea students sident psychol a or ldn't ve the es were in on of Cam Ma ing was bein State cam a ael aded wit al bugle "They're th ational actio co to the on Massac Yor 28, a reset , said using blan F" yelled girl. But vi ce and s by num men, wh they were shure "un nate inci n no they were 't■ ointed out five we sni• fire. If t had "There t of ;ire those ent Stat which was ht there er a Lfjk 30 se sa York; a b ile fortu America ng, as had intain am h weren't they sked why fired any ipe d, ting he se me were the fir dnets on t -h wa be shots ire in the new civil war in e Kent Sta inci ent began standing away from the action most in igna ion was • a America," said Rabbi Balfour Monday when guardsmen, who observing. his condemnation. Charles ir almer,e Brickner, the leader of the Union had been called to the campus In trying to explain the NSA president, called Nixon, "the of American Hebrew after a ROTC building was murders, the National Guard first greatest purveyor of violence in By FLOYD NORRIS Congregations. burned, broke up a peaceful rally said they had been shot at by a the world today." The number of schools and protesting the U.S. invasion of sniper, then revised that to say the The state and federal WASHINGTON (CPS) The universities on strike across the Cambodia. highway patrol had sighted a governments are investigating the Kent Massacre, in which four nation continues to grow, boosted Troops chased the students sniper on top of a building. While slaughter as is the American students were gunned down by by word of the Kent Massacre. around the campus with teargas, not saying why they thought the Association of University National Guardsmen who had [Late word from United States and, exhibiting less than brilliant Professors. broken up a peaceful rally Student Press Association tactics, the Guard maneuvered protesting the invasion of indicates that as of last itself into the middle of a huge Tacoma Colleges Strike All City Rally to be Held On Tuesday a mass meeting was • held in front of Jones Hall where both students and faculty expressed their concerns over both the invasion of Cambodia and the massacre of four students at Kent state this week. ASB President Tom Leavett read the following statement at both Central Board and the University Council: "We protest President Nixon's actions in conjunction with Cambodia. We are calling the University to strike Friday against Mr. Nixon's actions. We feel 1969-70, No. 20 UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND May 8, 1970 that this is of top priority. We urge you to join us and help us." It was emphasized that this was not a student strike against the university but rather a university strike against the President and his administrative policies. All members of the academic community at UPS were asked to participate, students, faculty, administration and staff, in an attempt to display to the President and the Congress the urgency with which the people are seeking a solution to the problems created by the Nixon UPS joins the nation in dramatic policies. protest. A rally will be held this afternoon at 3:00 in Wrights Park, 6th and Eye well as action to be taken in the Streets, to coordinate and execute Tacoma area to stop the "institutions" city-wide plans for the protest to be and emphasize the fact that each one taken into the community. Several of us is involved and responsible for speeches are planned at this rally as the current world situation. University Theater Presents A FLEA IN HER EAR To Run Through Next Week Vance Confirmed As Editor It all begins when Madame In the hopes of curing any Somerville. The cast includes I At their meeting Tuesday, May requirment for Central Boar undernourished funny bones, the Chandel, suspicious of her Diane Chun, Ruth Davis, Bernie 5, the ASUPS Judicial Council membership. The scholastic husband's suddenly suspended University Theatre is serving a Dunayski, dail Bruson, Rebecca unanimously adopted the requirement of a 2.00 grade point marital activities, decides to test delightful dish of hilarity entitled Harris, Dina Hendrickson, Brooks following decision on the for the previous semester in being A FLEA IN HER EAR by George her husband's fidelity by tempting Hull, John Leonard, Steve a scholastic rather than a him with an invitation to ratification and eligibility of residency requirement should be Feydeau. Styled the greatest Anderson, Greg Hetrick, Amedee David Vance as 1970-71 TRAIL French writer of comedy since rendevous with an unknown lady Smith, Gordon Griggs, and David interpreted as referring to the admirer at that palace of Editor. Moliere, Feydeau, a master Phipps. previous semester the student was extra-marital bliss known as the craftsman of fin-de-siecle This production, the last of the in school. The residency Coc d'Or. Jealous husbands, a case Non voting members in Part 4, bedroom farces, has only recently current theatre season, opened requirement of ASUPS of mistaken identity and a Section II, Article III shall be come to the attention of last night and will continue subject to the membership membership should be interpreted revolving bed all conspire to as applying to the period when English-speaking audiences. The thwart the amerous plans of some tonight and Saturday and next qualifications in Part I, Section II, neglect is well worth remedying. weekend, May 14, 14, and 16. Article III. the office is held, not to the time very respectable people who have of ratification. This play has a fantastically nothing to loose but their dignity. Tickets are available at the box The Council interprets article complicated plot which deals with office, open daily 1:00-5:00 in III, section 2, part I as setting a However, appointments to an A FLEA IN HER EAR is office can not constitutionally go the amorous misadventures of directed by Richard Tutor with the lobby of Jones Hall. Curtain is scholastic, residency, and French upper-middle class society. scenery designed by ThoThas at 8:00 Constitutional familiarity (Continued On Page 2) Page Two PUGET SOUND TRAIL, MAY 8, 1970 A Nationwide Call For Action... The following is a nationwide editorial. It our government's actions have been revealed nation the meaning of the President's action. We urge that this strike be directed has appeared in The DAILY for all to see. toward bringing out the following changes: PRINCETONIAN, The Columbia The need for action has never been SPECTATOR, The Cornell DAILY SUN, so great at so urgent a period. We therefore call on the entire an immediate withdrawal of all The Harvard CRIMSON, The DAILY academic community of this country to American forces' from Southeast Asia PENNSYLVANIAN, The Rutgers TARTUM, engage in a nationwide university strike. We — passage of the Senate amendment to The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College NEWS, must cease business as usual in order to the Military Appropriations Act to The DAILY CALIFORNIAN, The Stanford allow the universities to lead and join in a deny all aid for military and political DAILY, The UCLA DAILY BRUIN and collective strike to protest America's adventure in Southeast Asia others. escallation of the war. the end of the political repression at We do not call for a strike by home, in particular the government's President Nixon's unwarranted and students against the university, but a strike systematic attempt to eliminate the Black Panther Party and other political illegal decision to send American combat by the entire university—faculty, students, staff and administrators alike. dissidents forces into Cambodia and to resume the The reasons for such a strike are a reversal of American priorities for bombing of North Vietnam demands manifold. First, it is a dramatic symbol of military involvements abroad to militant, immediate, and continued our opposition to a corrupt and immoral domestic problems, in particular the opposition from all Americans. war. it demonstrates clearly our priorities, problems of our beleaguered cities Through his unilateral executive for the significance of classes and the mobilization of public support for move, the President has placed our country examinations pales before the greater anti-war candidates in the upcoming in a state of emergency.