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Show Sunday, May 10, THE HERALD, Provo, 1971 Utah-P- age B Turmoil, ShuvdownsConiinue on Nation's Campuses Damaging r i n Fires Hit 4 fiJ N x k " y f N x x X x X x X X x x 3 Schools V By United Press International ' x X x x it ? xv x x i; x v Vx fa More than 200 colleges and universities around the nation were closed Saturday-bstrikes a week or official order-af- ter of sometimes violent protests againsty the war in Indochina left four Kent State University vsxix x x X X x xv xx x s x x X X x x x x v O x v Vx V x Ox x NX x x nJ x x - v V x x V x x y x students dead. Nine persons, four of them newsmen, were s'abbed when moved Guardsmen National behind a line of state police to rout students from a University of New , Mexico building in Albuquerque. Guard spokesmen said the injured were not bayoneted by guardsmen but one of the injured newsmer said he was stabbed three times by guardsmen after showing his press credentials. About 140 persons were arrested. Police used riot sticks to disperse 1,000 window breakers who split off from a peaceful rally of 50,000 at Harvard 2v I)) UNIVERSITY OF UTAH students listen during a series of weekend meetings to a speaker indentified as Pete Gnmdofossen, assistant dean of students, who was quoted as saying he is supporting dissenting students seeking to shot down the school in response to ld extreme emergency." A staff member said the move was prompted by attacks on an ROTC office and a National Guard motor pool. a national student strike movement. But the strike movement suffered a resounding defeat when over half of the student body refused to vote on it, and a majority of those who did vote were not in favor of a strike. (Herald-UP- I J Telephoto) University of Utah Strike Vote Suffers Overwhelming Defeat Square in Cambridge, Mass. There were no arrests reported. Fire, which firemen said was "definitely arson," caused $100,000 damage to the Humanities Building at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University in New York. The original building on the Colorado campus of State University was destroyed by fire late Friday. Another building, housing the school's ROTC program, was damaged by what officials called a molotov cocktail. Fire, believed by authorities to have been set. swept through a University of Iowa building early today. Iowa Gov. Robert D. Ray late Friday placed 1,000 National Guard troops on alert, saying he would no longer tolerate campus violence. Idaho Gov. Don Samuelson proclaimed a state of emergency Friday and called on all stage agencies to take action "to arrest the conditions perpetuating the state of SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Student dissidents at the Uni- versity of Utah were regrouping their forces here Saturday after an overwhelming defeat Friday of their proposed general strike, Seeking to completely shut Kent State Closed to Mid-Jun- e KENT, Ohio (UPI)-F- or the first time in a week, there were no National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus today. But the return of the to its faculty and school students remained in question. Robert I. White, the Kent State president, decided Friday to keep the university closed at least through the scheduled end of the spring term June 13. "Everyone who has asked to study the situation and take a look at it has advised that it would be unsafe to bring the students back," White said. "There are guns, there is the danger of fire, and there is no one who can say to any parent, we can give reasonable assurance for the safety or of your son or convenience daughter'." university to protest the Kent State University deaths and the escalated war into Cambodia, the militants saw less than half of the school's 22,000 students go to the polls on the strike issue. That in itself defeated the strike plans, but the boycott was even dealt a more crushing blow when those students who voted turned thumbs down on the measure almost six to three. The official vote tally showed that 9,674 students cast ballots, with 5,911 showing disapproval and 3,432 in favor of the strike. Students who indicated they were undecided numbered 131. The active dissenters, who numbered only about 300 to 500 series of during the week-lon- g rallies, also failed to capture the full support of a majority of the faculty members. The faculty met behind closed doors for more than three hours Friday afternoon and voted to back the students on some of their demands while completely shunning others. The two key resolutions defeated by the professors included that of allowing students to not be academically penalized for participation in the unoffi cial student strike during this past week. Another resolution they voted down was one stating that whenever possible, the university president should not summon outside law enforcement agencies to the campus without prior advice and consent of majorities of the student and faculty coundown Illinois Gov. Richard Ogilvie, who ' earlier ordered up 5,000 National Guard troops, Friday mobilized 3,800 more and had 750 of them stand by for possible crowd control duty at a Northwestern University rally in Evanston. More than 5,000 persons attended the rally, which remained peaceful. Iowa Gov. Robert D. Ray placed about 1,000 National Guardsmen on standby alert, School Closed Monday The school, which has an saying he could not longer tolerate violence on state enrollment of 20,000, was closed Monday after National Guardscampuses. In contrast, the last continmen opened fire on rioting antigent of guardsmen pulled out of war protesters, killing four cils. the Kent, Ohio, campus where students and wounding 10. The faculty meeting and stufour students were shot to dent activity Friday afternoon death and 11 were wounded Non-Milita- ry followed another noon rally durMonday by troops. Guardsmen ing which militant speakers and state troopers also were the actions of the campraised withdrawn from the University pus police. of Kentucky campus. One speaker's statement of: Helmeted construction workI've seen pigs in action before, ers broke up a peace rally at but on this campus we have the foot of George Washington's COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI)-- A restatue on Wall Street in New "fragmentary report" shows real policemen" met with and applause York City. The workers shout- one of the 10 students wounded sounding cheers from a crowd of 500 to 800 speced, "Take a bath" and "Hey, on the Ken State University tators. we hey, whatta ya say, support campus, had been struck by a He was referring to the wa? the U.S.A." bullet," according officers handled the of students to an Ohio National Guard security arrests of 83 sit-i-n demonstramarched on the closed Ohic officer. tors in the administration buildState Capitol at Columbus Col, J.E.P. McCann, adminis- ing Thursday after the students without incident. trative assistant to the Ohio defied a court order demanding A throng of 10,000 young adjutant general, said Friday that they leave. people marched on Sacramento, the report was made by the Throughout the whole week of the California capital, in the guard's inspector general's sporatic activity, no incidents of city's biggest demonstration in office. a year. There were no arrests McCann said the doctor who and no violence reported. About treated the patient believed the 12,000 college and high school wound was caused by a students marched to Indepensmall caliber steel dence Hall in Philadelphia for jacketed bullet. an antiwar rally. Some 6,000 Dr. Joe Ewing, who treated persons marched from Wayne MacKenzie and said he treated State University to downtown more than 1,000 gunshot wounds 2U North 1st West ( Detroit. A few militants threw during World War II, said he rYwIltaV 84601 rocks at police cars and broke did not think the youth was shot 373-3822 with a military weapon. campus building windows. violence occurred except on Tuesday night when an unidentified students threw a firebomb into the ROTC building on campus and caused $300 in damages. Early Friday afternoon, an acid rock and roll band played music and students danced under skies next to the Student Union Building in silent protest. The students said they remained silent to symbolize that they were through taking and were waiting for the administration to act Then, they quietly filed out of the building and gathered in front of an auditorium building where more student speeches were held as they awaited results of the strike vote. One of the highlights of the silent walk-i- n was the participation of 200 Salt Lake City high school students. The students had threatened another sit-i- n Friday, but backed off after the university administration vowed that any participants in such a demonstration would be permanently expelled from school. PEOPLE gathered for a weekend rally near the Harvard University stadium, background, to speeches against the expanded fighting in Southeast AN ESTIMATED SM At Kent Alls and the death of students last week in Ohio. Addresslnc the crowd is rally Margaret Marshall, a Har-heyard student. (Herald-UP- I Tdephoto) at Colorado State University; Second Structure Damaged by 8aze FORT COLLINS, Colo. (UPI) lain told the campus radio sta- Fjre destroyed the oldest tion Col- Yonker said one fireman alin- buildinc on the orado State University rnmnns oed and struck his head on a late Friday. Another blaze, de-- fire engine but was not believed liberately set, slightly damaged seriously injured. A crowd of students, estimat the campus ROTC building. ed at between 1,000 and 2,000, Fort Collins Fire Chief Ed was in the campus gymnasium Yonker said the Cld Main builddebating the Southeast As'an ing, the original building on the war and a strike of classes campus, was a total loss. He es- when the fire broke out. timated the loss at a The cornerstone of the builddollars, based on replace- ing was laid in 1877. It was bement costs. ing used primarily for art class"It definitely was a Molotov es. cocktail that started the fire in Damage to the ROTC building the ROTC building just a few was confined to the outside of minutes after the fre started in one corner, and Yonker said one Old Main," Yonker said. "We pumper put the flames out raphave the bottle." idly. An unidentified student told Asked the course of the Old Yonker kerosene had been disMain blaze, Yonker said, "We covered in a nearby building. suspect arson, but, of course, "Someone had been in there we cannot prove it right now." before us, because there was Dr. A.R. Chamberlain, presi- tape on the door," the student dent of the school, said classes said. helping con- - ic loss of a part of all our years of heritage of Colorado crowds," Yonker said. "The destruction of Old Main State University," Chamberlain Can be described Only 8S a mnnul5 hosesand ld . trag-.SM- d. half-milli- would continue. 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