Confer for Three Hours in Old Main Increase in Black Enrollment Asked By MIKE SERRILL Lewis signed, at 10:30 p.m. last night. • Reevaluation of the athletic re- Collegian Editorial Editor cruiting program with regard to buck They include: students Approximately 100 black students •M ore black undergraduates. 'i made a surprise visit to Old Main yes- There are presently onlj^ about 200 • More black athletes terday afternoon and confronted Vice- President for Student Affairs Charles black students attending the Univer- • Black coaches for the athletic L. Lewis with a list of 12 demands for sity. The Douglas Association demand- teams changes" in the University's policy re- ed that the undergraduate enrollment • More black literature offered in garding black students. include 400 black students by the fall the University's English courses On the list were demands for a of 1968, 1,000 by the following fall and larger black enrollment at the Univer- • The introduction of an African sity, more black professors and more 10 per cent of the undergraduate popu- culture study program. black graduate students. lation thereafter. The students entered Old Main Bulletin Article about 4:30 p.m. and jammed into a That a building be named after The confrontation was at least in ' and dedicated to the late Rev. Martin Lewis s ground floor office. He agreed L the ing part the result of a statement by Lewis io hear their grievances and the group u r K printed Sunday by Philadelphia's Sun- moved into the larger Dean of Men's • That a Martin Luther King day Bulletin. Lewis is quoted as say- office at the west end of the Adminis- scholarship fund be established ing that student dissent at Perm State tration building. is not as "dangerous as at Columbia" Three-hour Talk • That a course in Negro history because Penn State "is not in an urban The black students talked with be made a permanent part of the cur- area and not contaminated by Harlem." Lewis until 7:26 p.m., then quietly riculum The statement was reprinted yes- filed out of Old Main and dispersed. • More black professors terday in the Students for a Democratic i The meeting was closed to report- Society newsletter, "Southpaw." —couegian froths ay Pierre Bcllicinl , • More black graduate students PART OF THE GROUP of approximately 100 black siu- a list of demands io Charles L. Lewis, vice president for ers but Wilbert Manley, newly elected The blacks reportedly resent the dents as ihey left Old Main last night after presenting student affairs. president of the Douglas Association, • That a section of Pattee Library word "contaminated" and the implicar released the list of demands, which be devoted exclusively to black authors tion that the Douglas Association is associated with the radical SDS. Addresses HUB Lawn Calls Newspaper Crowd Tomorrow Lewis called the Bulletin during the conference and, according to Man- ley, retracted the statement. A spokes- man for the Bulletin said last night that a story concerning the issue will be "f.nted in today's paper. Sunday's article dealt almost ex- clusively with SDS activities at Penn By WILLrAM EPSTEIN -tie will land at tne Mid-state Airport in that faculty members cancel tomorrow s fourth State. Most of the information was con- Philipsburg at 11 a.m. Plans call for a tributed by Neil Buckley, SDS regional Collegian Managing Editor 12:20 p.m. period classes. organizer and a graduate of the Uni- More than 15,000 persons are expected to arrival in downtown State College. "We urge that professors cancel their classes, versity. Building Rockefeller spokesmen gather on the lawn of the Hetzel Union reported last night that in order that students and instructors may hear Buckley entered Old Main about tomorrow to hear an address by Gov. Nelson A. the governor will walk from College Avenue Rockefeller," Cromer said. 7 last night with two other men, ap- Rockefeller. toward the HUB, passing through the middle of Rockefeller will speak from a platform on parently planning to join the con- The Republican presidential candidate is the crowd. ference in the Dean of Men's office. A the top of the HUB ]awn, jv table for the press black student spoke to Buckley in pri- scheduled to speak at 12:30 p.m. His subject will The governor will deliver a 15-minute speech. wU1 be set UD on the sidewalk in front of the vate and he immediately left the build- be "Peace in Vietnam and the Rest of the World." This will be followed by a 20- to 30-minute period HUBj and television stands will be manned from ing. National , Coverage in which he will answer questions presented by the ]awn. No Comment Representatives of the major national radio the audience. Motorcade Planned When the meeting ended, none of and television networks will converge on State William Cromer, state chairman of the Re- the black students would comment to p]ans caU fof busses from penn state- College to cover Rockefeller s speech. publican College Council, requested last night s The Daily Collegian. Lewis left the of- ' Commonwealth Campuses and other colleges in fice hurriedly, and also refused to com- ~ ~ •* * * . .- • . " the'.state to travel here " for. the. speech. ment He. was visibly fatigued and per- a ~ . -;spirrag,.,.. - - .. .... _ ' . ..-^ -. • •._-;-— • . -_ • I . -ILi r^ .J£^^ B . ~ ;%j LJ!^^ ^ Neither Manley nor Vincent Ben- P*f %' '"fnH' A~ ™ing-.- %wb bands will be on hand, one at the Y&^ $ & mVl{%U Bl 'WftOrf lP1nri8W)I>JP& -"VIPTV aIT!BIM iff , 1 J O m° son, vice-president of the Douglas As- S'SJSl'U^aia.a'Mia. 'W ' i ^& &£ . motorcade and the other on the HUB lawn. THE DOOR was closed to Collegian reporters sociation, would say what the black Cromer also said that the speech will be while the students met with Lewis. students plan to do if the Administra- made in Recreation Building if the weather; should tion fails to comply with their demands. prohibit an outdoor program. Nebraska Primary Campaign Introduction Planned OMAHA. Neb. (JP) — It was Sen. Robert F. peal to every Democrat to write-in Nixon's name University President Eric A. Walker was re- Harriman, Thuy Muffle Accusations Kennedy against the Democrats field and Richard on their party's ballot. Dickinson's effort to rally ported to have been asked to introduce Rocke- M. Nixon topping the GOP list as candidates disgruntled Democrats is based on the theme that ¦wound up their campaigning for today's Nebraska McCarthy, Kennedy and Vice President Hubert H. feller. He will be out of, town tomorrow, however. presidential primary. Humphrey offer "nothing " but more of the same" Cromer said that J. Ralph Rackley, University Kennedy played the traditional game of hedg- of rioting in the cities and excessive spending. provost, will be sought as a replacement for Peace Envoys Cordial ing against a possibly unsatisfactory outcome. He An under-financed and publicly disavowed Walker. insisted that he couldn't get the 50 per cent of write-in drive for Humphrey was not generally PARIS (/P) — Each side in the Vietnam legitimate demand of the DRV ... the Democratic vote that would notify prospec- expected to provide him with any significant por- Rockefeller will leave State College at war demanded yesterday that the other side To the relief of some on the American tive convention delegates in other states that his tion of the Democratic vote. 1:20 p.m. He will return to Philipsburg for a 2 p.m. conflict as a step side, Thuy did not go on then to warn he But the vice president seemed likely to share scale down the bitter campaign for¦ the nomination was surging in high departure for Pittsburgh. * toward peace. will leave the conference if he does not get gear. heavily in the state's 30-vote convention delega- his way. He spoke instead of the serious tion. The two Democratic National Committee To Discuss Platform But the special emissaries of Presidents " Former Postmaster ' General Lawrence F. Johnson and Ho Chi Minh—Ambassador W. attitude and good will" with which his side O'Brien, a Kennedy strategist, said he thinks that members, who automatically get places on the He is scheduled to meet in Pittsburgh with intends seeking an end of American military gets 35 per cent of the delegation, are for Humphrey. Averell Harriman and Minister of State if the New York Senator other Republican governors, to discuss ideas for Xuan Thuy—were careful to muffle their action in order to be able to proceed "to vote in the Democratic column, he will have LBJ Siill on Ballot other points of interest." racked up a substantial victory. He noted that in The 28 other delegate votes will be repre- the GOP national campaign platform. charges and countercharges in relatively Nebraska the late John F. Kennedy hit his lowest sented by individual winners elected separately mild terms. It was as if they were signaling This was a plain reference to the prob- mark of 37.9 per cent in the 1960 presidential race and unbound by the results of the popularity a readiness to talk on and on, despite their lem of a wider peace settlement—the prob- content in which the national contenders ore public postures, to end a war they both lem which Harriman made the theme of his with Nixon. detesU McCarthy Prediction vying. 2,000-word address. Candidates supporting or leaning toward Columbia Student It was a predictable send-off for the America's millionaire trouble-shooting Sen.