Housing Must Meet Code by April CIA Interviews Cancelled It Due to Protest Threat Student Strike Can Have Influence
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^r Housing must meet code by April six houses occupied since January L By then he had gone into five more a required but uncompleted second stair By John Severson houses, all with licensed workmen. But way to third floor rooms. Of the Post Staff The representatives meeting Tues day decided to have Seay present Nag then he had to rip all of the unlicensed Another sorority complained of needed ley with a fist of the improvements work out of the AOPi house and put his porch repairs, faulty wiring and plas The city building inspector has ordered licensed workmen to work on that house tering—all of which were listed in their the owner of ten fraternity and sorority (most in addition to the code require lease, they said. houses to finish bringing the properties ments) specified in their leases and too. That slowed down work on all of not yet completed. the houses," Seay said. All of the groups complained that up to city code by April 1, it was re "He brought the trouble on himself," Nagley had been irritable in working ported Thursday. They also agreed to examine the pos sibility of forming a permanent house Seay said. He added, however, that "I with undergraduates. Robert Seay, assistant director of have to defend him in that he is rep StSeay agreed that this had been aprob- housing for off-campus housing, said managers' council to look into mutual problems. resenting a landlord who is trying to lem and said Nagley had been put in that the city had been concerned over meet and surpass the code require an uncertain position by receiving dif the length of time the landlord was Seay said Thursday that Nagley was attempting to meet all of the specifi ments." ferent complaints and requests from taking in making changes required un undergraduate's than from the groups' der city codes. cations of the building codes and indi The delay led to conflicts between Nag vidual leases but had run into problems ley and the fraternities and sororities, trustees. The owner, attorney Robert Silver- Leases on Greek houses are actually stein, operates 10 of the 12 houses oc because of ' 'going into too much at one Seay said. The result was the series of time." meetings. held by trustee corporations, usually cupied by University fraternities and composed of fraternity and sorority sororities through Relocation Realty. Seay also said that Nagley had "run Complaints at the meeting varied. into trouble" with the city because of One sorority complained that there alumni, he explained. The delay on making the needed chan Seay said that often conflicts with ges has been the cause of heated con using unlicensed workmen on one of the was an oil leak in the basement, that troversy between the groups and Relo houses. their garage was unusable because of (Turn to page 12, col 1) cation Realty's agent, Herbert Nagley. Nagley used unlicensed workmen a weak center support, that they had Representatives from the groups have (plumbers and electricians) in the Alpha faulty light fixtures and that promised held a series of three meetings on the Omicron Pi sorority house, the first of storms and screens had not been pro The March Midwest controversy during the last two weeks. the six houses occupied since January 1, vided. Literary Review Seay told the latest meeting, Tues Seay said. A fraternity representative listed bro day night, that the main problem was in "The city caught him and has been on ken windows, unreplaced since they mov in this issue making the needed improvements in the his back every since," Seay said. ed in, no heating on the third floor, and UW faculty votes for job interviews THE UWM POST Madison, Wis. — On campus Vol. XII, No. 40 The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Friday, March 15, 1968 job interviews was overwhelm ingly endorsed Wednesday night by the UW faculty in a voice vote. The faculty ruling, which CIA interviews cancelled must be approved by the Univer sity Regents, reaffirms Chan cellor Sewell's right to post pone or relocate interviews in It due to protest threat "crisis situation." Sewell, in the past, has cancelled Dow The United States Central Intelligence Agency late Thursday Pallett said recruiting and relocated mili afternoon decided to cancel all job recruitment interviews in the Before the cancellation was announced, a number of protest tary recruiting. Milwaukee area, University placement services director James events had been planned. These protests included a mass rally About 800 of the faculty's Pallett said Thursday. Friday afternoon, another short rally Monday morning immed 1900 voting members attended The CIA had first planned to hold recruitment interviews iately followed by a protest march to the federal building. the special faculty meeting. The on the UWM campus. Later the interviews were rescheduled A play by Morgan Gibson of the English department entitled faculty vote follows the minority at the federal building along with interviews for Marquette "Madame CIA" was also scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. recommendations of the Mer University students. Thursday night the leaders of the protest allegedly had a min committee. The minority "Pallett said the cancellation might be because of a new CIA meeting to decide what course of action mey||pbuld take. Al decision was endorsed by the policy against holding job interviews whenever a demonstration though spokesmen for the meeting were unavailable for comment, powerful University committee. is threatened. before the meeting David Hanks, Executive secretary of Students -^ The Mermin student-faculty Pallett said he was told on the phone that the CIA would not for a Democratic Society, hinted that much of the activity would committee was set up after hold interviews when there was a possibility that doing so would still tnkc DI&CG the Dow demonstration to re "disturb the peace of the University or the community." Hanks added* that the "tone" of the demonstration would pos commend interview policies. A Pallett said the CIA representative had told him that the CIA sibly change from anti-CIA recruitment to general opposition of would keep the applications and the resumes of job applicants.. the CIA and its policies. (Turn to page 12, col. 5) "There is still a chance that thev will be contacted by the CIA " iiiiil^^ §i^f?ifi^ Wmmmmm Expansion to river gets state's OK The expansion plans for UWM which would allow the campus to expand west to the river were approved in Madison Thursday by the state co-ordinating coun- liplfor highWeducation. The council's facilities com mittee recommended approval of the plan last week. If the state building com mission approves the proposal which was recommended by the Board of Regents three years ago, properties would be pur chased over a period of sev eral years as they become a- Paul Rupert (center) draft counselor from Chicago Area tured on either side of him are Ed Enten and Mark Rosnow. vailable from present owners. Draft Resistors (CADRE), spoke in the Union Wednesday. Pic- (Post photo by Mike Myers) The state building commis sion is expected to approve the plan this spring. Says spokesman Student strike can have influence By Judy Adelson high school and college, out that black and white would be rican Unity and all but one The ten days of resistance Of the Post Staff of school for one day. Where working together. The Negro country in the Tricontinental are in preparatiom for the Na- it is possible, an attempt will is being brought into the peace Organization, representing La tiomal Democratic Convention. ' 'Students can influence peo be made to close down uni- movement and the white into tin America. He said suggestions on a plan ple. Being for peace was made versties. the race movement. of action at the convention were legitimate as a direct result "Our approach is flexible," Zagarell said the strike was The strike was called in Jan made although nothing definite of student demonstrations," he said. "In some areas maybe building world-wide solidarity. uary at the third national con was arranged. said Mike Zagarell, member of there will be just a demon H e mentioned that the Interna ference of the Student Mobi The strike was jointly called the National Student Mobiliza stration and speakers." tional Union of Students in Pra lization Committee to End the by the National Black Anti- tion Committee. |f§|l Zagarell also mentioned the gue, which is affiliated with War in Vietnam, in Chicago. Draft Union, which was formed Zagarell spoke to about 25 possibility of teach-ins and student unions throughout the More than 900 students repre by the black caucus at the students Wednesday at the Wes picketing of schools. world, has supported the strike. senting at least 119 colleges convention. ley Foundation about the Mo "There isn't any one action "The strike will show that voted overwhelmingly to strike Their statement read: "This bilizing Committee's interna of students that will end the American people don't support April 26. is an act of solidarity against tional strike April 26 whose war. The idea is to contri the war. The war is isolating the racist oppression of Black purpose is to: 1) Bring the bute to the movement as a us and our action will give America, the racist U.S. ag According to Zagarell, the gression against the Vietna troops home from Vietnam now, whole and bring people who encouragement to people all strike does have a long range 2) End racial oppression and over the world who are against mese people, and the violation haven't been in before." approach that was discussed of the right of self-determina 3)Stop the draft.