Prof Calls For Walker's Resignation irr ^SBWIg * ^ «wj;»pw i^ sa^ '.?». , -'¦aaMBBagl By LARRY REI B3TEIN his handling of Gen. William C. Westmore- Collegian Staff Writer land's visit here Saturday. Shepard Raps Failure To Get A faculty member called Sunday Shepard charged Walker wtih "sneaking for the resignation and public censurs Westmoreland onto a campus which is owned of University President Eric A. Walker. by the students." Student O.K. For Westmoreland Visit Morris A. Shepard, assistant professor of "If Westmoreland wants to speak here human development, criticized Walker for all right, but Walker asked him here with- out getting the approval of the students, anc der. then it has to be for everyone." Wells Keddie, assistant professor of labor studies. Keddie, then sneaked him in," Shepaid said. Shepard called the affair an "antago- faculty adviser to SDS, asked nistic act." the debaters how they thought the candi- "The President (Walker) inflamed th< dates would respond to Saturday' student body by bringing to this campus £ He also charged Walker with having a s SDS dem- man who represents the Vietnam war." "mistaken sense of priorities." He noted that onstration. At this point Shepard blasted Walker. "Walker is obviously out of touch witr Walker turned down an invitation from the Free Speech Movement what's going on, should resign, and should to speak to students Shepard also said he advocates fear as on the Old Main lawn be publicly censured for inviting Westmore- , yet he responded to a a means of bringing about change. crowd of football fans clamoring land," Shepard said. for his ap- "Fright moves people. We need new and SDS Protests pearance after the UCLA game. clever ideas to frighten people. If there were The charges were prompted by West- Advocates 'Fright' a boycott of classes, there would be a moreland's visit Saturday to attend the change," he commented. Penn State-Army football game. Students Shepard's statements were made at a This is the second time in 60 days that for a Democratic Society protested West- debate among supporters of Hubert Hum- Walker has been asked to resign. The first moreland's presence on campus by demon- phrey, Richard Nixon and Dick Gregory. came at the Undergraduate Student Govern- strating in front of Walker's house, where George E. Brandow, professor of agricultural ment Encampment, when Gary Sykes (grad- the Army chief of staff was staying.' economics, spoke for Humphrey and Don uate-political science) called for Walker's The protesters sat down on the drive- Ernsberger (lOth-political science-Hatboro) resignation. way leading to Walker's house. They sur- for Nixon. Shepard spoke for Gregory. Sykes charged that Walker presents an rounded a car and bus, which were reported- The demand for Walker's resignation and "uncompromising attitude" to the student ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF. General William C. WestmoM ly carrying Walker and Westmoreland to the censure came in response to a question by body and faculty. land at his arrival Saturday at the University Park Airppri game. State, local and campus police joined in removing the demonstrators. • • * • Commenting on police actions during the * * * * * SDS demonstration, Shepard said. "There MORRIS A. SHEPARD, associate professor were no arrests made after the UCLA antics West moreland Visit Stirs SDS Sit-In of Human Development, who has called for (Oct. 14), which caused $1,200 worth of dam- President Eric A. Walker's resignation. age, yet cops were called in to beat on heads Saturday. If there is going to be law and or- Police Break Up Profes By MARC KLEIN grass. Creegan told the Collegian last night, "We feci mass murderer on campus No Chapero nes Needed Collegian Staff Writer SDS chairman Jim Creegan said after the inci- that Walker's sneaking a dent, "I think it proves once and for all that Walker was an affront to us and to the students of the Police were called to the campus Saturday tc and the people around him are going to run this University. "If anything, the students and the faculty of the disperse a demonstration protesting the visit of University the way they see fit. They're not respon- Arm> sible to students." University should bring some censure against Walker At Frate rn ity Funct ions Chief of Staff Gen. William C. Westmoreland and the Dana Freedman, a member of SDS said , "As the for what he did." Creegan added. University's alleged complicity with the military. 'Excessive' By SARA HERTER dependent Men adviser ; Eileen now studying reasons why bus rode by I saw Eric A. Walker laughing. The Says Police Bannard, Panhellenic Counci] fraternities would benefit from About 75 members of Students for a Democratic military women were laughing also." Concerning Westmoreland , Creegan said. Collegian Staff Writer be held responsible for adviser; and two residence hall increased visitation. Society staged a sit-in on the driveway of University SDS member Jeff Berger said. "They dragged "Wherever he goes he should ' people on his hands." co-ordinators from The Men s Perry said that the commit- President Eric A. Walker's house at about 12 noon. me otf by the hair." the blood of all those Interfraternity Council ad- Residence Council. Gary Potter, an SDS member, told the Collegian viser Mel Klein said last night tee had made up two survey Hand-outs were distributed, stating, "General Charges Complicity 't have to have hidden "We decided that students questionnaires. The first will last night, "Walker wouldn that chaperones will no longer Westmoreland is here today. Welcome a mass mur- University sympathizes Westmoreland's visit on campus as well as he did, had reached the point of social be given to men who rushed derer." Berger claimed ihat the be required at any fraternity maturity where we could with the military. "Not only do we have ROTC and unless he feared some adverse student reaction." or any other student function.. but did not pledge, choosing to Westmoreland was here for the Army game. Nc action by the police Potter realistically talk about live in apartments. "The sur- ORL (Ordinance Research Laboratory a University Commenting on the . "We are in no way recom- eliminating chaperones," Klein official announcement was made of his visit until operated weapons research laboratory funded by the said, "The police were a little bit excessive, but I vey is not pointed in any gametime, but SDS claimed to hear a rumor of the type of meh'ding - the release o 1 said. , Navy) on campus, we also have top military men en- imagine it was their first experience with any specific direction," Perry said visit and planned the sit-in Friday night. " Berger housemothers," Klein said , Chaperonage has been a "but hopefully we can establish tertained by the president of the University, student activism. speaking for, the adminis- traditional ' University policy ~ At 1 p.m. Saturday a bus,and three cars carrying continued. "The person I really blame for any excessive use that .fraternities will _b e tratlonr-Under-. the -new- .policy, for—over -three-decades -r-K-lein military-brass and Walker "we're' ff ceo'mpahied'"cTown SDS adviser Wells Keddie was at the sit-in but of force was the head of campus security (William C. ' benefited by liberalized visita- " Potter continued. "He was the only one effective "Jan. 4, 1969, the total said. The policy was set in the tion." the driveway by State troopers, State College refused to comment on what occurred. After the Pclton), responsibility "for each and Dean of Students Office. "The policemen, campus patrolmen and University ivho initiated the attack on the students. Fraternity men who move demonstration was dispersed, Keddie took down every function faHs on the committee found that we security officers. names of witnesses and noted the patrolmen who John F. Galaid a . chief of the Campus Patrol ; the president and function chair- would have a direct voice in out of houses will be the object Collegian Department of Public Information and Pelton refused of the second survey, Perry Students were told to move, but when they refus- participated but would not tell The Daily man." the changing of regulations," ed the police grabbed them and threw them on the what he planned to do with this information. io comment on Saturday 's sit-in. Klein said. As office policy, the said. Since 1962, the number of Although housemothers will fraternity men in apartments no • longer be required as chaperonage regulations were not within the jurisdiction of has tripled. The survey will at- chaperones,' Klein said their tempt to determine the reasons role in the fraternity is still an the University Senate or the Administration's Committee on tor this trend. important one. The Council voted to endorse Each chapter house will Student Affairs. rtme nt Tenants Lhe Faculty Petition on Racial Sun Apa In other business, Russ decide whether or not to retain ad-hoc Imbalance and to increase the its housemother, Klein said. Perry, chairman of the committee on visitation, salary of the Council president The new policy has "a par- reported that the committee is from $150 to S175 per term. ticular significance to fraterni- To Get Rent Reduction ties," Klein said, but it will ap- representative: University organiza- By G LENN KR ANZL EY DiCenzo, Grievance Committee ply to all and Terry Klasky, TIM vice-president. tions. Collegian Staff Writer Concerning the agreement. Petkov said that about a Klein explained Residents of apartments owned by Univer- "This is a clear-cut victory by the united action year ago the Dean of Students To Vote of all the disgruntled tenants of Dr.
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