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Unrest Sweeps College Campuses By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS student strike led by the Third out of the building after adminis­ been injured. Several demonstra­ Puerto Rican freshmen and stu­ Student dem onstrators disrupted World Liberation Front. Because tration officials had warned that tors were taken into custody, but dent voice in a policy to admit of the strike, Gov. Ronald Reagan they would be suspended from it was not known if they were students with high school grades cam puses across the country yes­ declared a “state of extreme emer­ school and arrested as trespassers charged. below the normal minimum. terday, w ith violence breaking out gency” at the 28,000-student cam­ unless they left. Earlier, Dean of Men Hugh Hall The college said Pres. Gallagher in four schools. M ost of the dis­ pus last week. Shortly after leaving, however, asked the students if they would told the students that curriculum turbances centered around de­ the students gathered in front of send a delegation to meet with review was under way, with the m ands b y black students for black DUKE the building, some with their faces university officials to discuss their hope of strengthening black history studies program s and for m ore Black students who had occu­ greased with salve and carrying demands. courses next September, and that student pow er. pied the administration building at wet towels to guard against tear The demonstrators gave their the president had called for re­ BERKELEY Duke University for 12 hours va­ gas. conditions for such a meeting, but examining the orientation program M ore than 30 persons w ere ar­ cated it late yesterday, but police When they refused to disperse, the later ultimatum by officials to for entering nonwhite students. rested at the U niversity of C ali­ had to use tear gas to break up a police fired canisters of gas at vacate the building indicated that melee that followed. U OF WISCONSIN fornia yesterday after clashes be­ them. Some of the students hurled the black demands were unaccept­ Student demonstrators, using tw een police and student strikers The blacks occupied the build­ canisters back at the officers be­ able. guerrilla-type tactics, clashed and their sym pathizers. ing shortly after 8 a.m. to back up fore the troopers gained control of The students, numbering 30 to twice with police and National T he violence broke out after po­ demands for changes in the uni­ the situation. 40, seized the first floor of the Guardsmen yesterday in the fourth lice cleared a cam pus entrance of versity program. Four city officers, a state trooper four-story Allen Building before consecutive day of disorders on the dem onstrators participating in the Campus guards let the students and 20 students are known to have 8 a.m. when only a few adminis­ trative employes had arrived for University of Wisconsin campus. work. Those who were there were The turmoil was started over forced to leave. several demands made by black Gov. Bob Scott ordered a Na­ students. tional Guard company with riot Law enforcement officials used training to Durham. tear gas and bayonets to control the roving crowd, which fluctuated MONTANA KAIMIN NEW YORK CITY from 500 to 3,000 during the day. COLLEGE By late afternoon, some of the University of Montana AN INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER Friday, Feb. 14, 1969 demonstrators disbanded until a Missoula, Montana Vol. 71, No. 57 About 100 students occupied the adininistration building of City rally scheduled for 7 pm. College for 4% hours yesterday, Gov. Warren B. Knowles charged pressing for such demands as a the campus disorders are political­ separate school of Negro and Puer­ ly motivated and urged the enact­ to Rican studies. ment of special legislation to deal Late in the afternoon, the dem­ with unruly protesters. Cities Said Nation’s Crisis onstrators marched silently from The State Senate overwhelm­ a side exit of the building and dis­ ingly passed a bill yesterday to By T. J. GILLES United States are migrating to ur­ education because of the dwindling persed. They refused to talk to withhold state aid for two years Montana Kaimin Staff Writer ban centers, only to be “trapped” tax base due to widespread un­ newsmen. from students convicted of using The crisis of American cities is by unemployment, health hazards employment and declining prop­ A security guard said three doors force or disrupting campus activi­ not merely an urban problem, but and inadequate housing. erty values, he said. Over half of. had been kicked in inside the ties or violating Regent rules by a national crisis that knows no city The plight of American cities “is all ghetto youths who apply for building, a small pile of refuse force or violence. closely related to the decay of the military service are rejected be­ dumped on the first floor and The Assembly passed a resolu­ limits, Joseph P. Lyford, author tion commending the school ad­ and social critic, said at UM last American community,” Mr. Lyford cause of the effects of health prob­ burned, and cigarette butts littered said, and the urban crisis can be lems and poor education, he added. about the office of the university ministration for action “designed night. to prevent the outbreak of vio­ Mr. Lyford, speaking to about solved only if the entire national A national effort to provide job president, Buell G. Gallagher. problem is attacked. training, low-income housing and City police were sent to the col­ lence.” 125 persons in the UC ballroom, Violent clashes between demon­ said the crisis is nationwide be­ Mr. Lyford asserted that 30 or community health centers is the lege on the northwestern fringe of cause people from throughout the 40 million Americans are -**ving in only solution to the urban crisis, Harlem but took no action. The strators and police and Guardsmen poverty with as many as 10 million Mr. Lyford contended. police department said the action have been kept to a minimum. of these suffering from malnutri­ He forecast few improvements was routine and that school offi­ The protesters disbanded when­ tion. in the confrontation of urban prob­ cials had not summoned help. ever officers arrived, regrouping The present welfare structure is lems because of the Vietnam War. Five demands were presented one or two blocks away. not serving its function, he said, “It’s not a matter of politics, it’s last week by an ad hoc group call­ Guardsmen with fixed bayonets House Okays because “more than half of the $6 a matter of economic fact,” he ing itself Black and Puerto Rican cleared demonstrators from a billion poured into relief programs said. President Nixon cannot solve Students. crowded intersection in the heart each year ends up in the hands of urban problems as long as so large Other demands beside a seperate of the sprawling 33,000-student Levy H ikes slumlords.” a portion of the national budget is school included a separate orien­ campus yesterday. A half block Cities cannot adequately finance expended in Vietnam, he said. tation program for Negro and away, a fight erupted between stu­ HELENA (AP) — Montana’s dents and police, and one youth House, in a grueling five-hour ef­ was clubbed by several policemen. fort to prepare for today’s bill-ex­ Later, tear gas was used to break change deadline, gave tentative but up pickets on a major throughfare firm approval yesterday to higher Repertory Theater Premieres on the campus. state taxes on gasoline, cigarettes and cigars. Under the provisions of the bills: ■Importance of Being Earnest9 Displeasure —The gasoline tax would go to 7 cents a gallon from 6% starting By DENNIS BURNS Glenn Gauer, in the lead role as could have retired to the foyer for July 1 for two years, while cities Montana Kaimin Staff Writer John Worthing, was good in his a cigarette during her deliveries Indicated In and counties would share $3 mil­ The Montana Repertory Theater part and may, by tonight, come and not have missed much dia­ lion for roads and streets, double through with a superb perform­ logue. the present annual aid. opened its 1969 season last night before a disappointingly small ance. One of the saviors of the show —The cigarette tax would raise audience with Oscar Wilde’s “The Roger DeBourg portrayed very was Teddy Ulmer, who had a very Student Poll to 10 cents a package from 8, Importance of Being Earnest,” well the character of Algernon with the long-range building pro­ minor part. He always makes him­ Results of a poll taken last week which, with more work, has hope. Concrieff, a cagey semi-bad guy. self very believable in his charac­ on the foreign language require­ gram to get 5 cents a pack instead Although some of the characters His scenes with Cecily (Nancy of 3 while the general fund con­ ter portrayals.