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Show Michigan Campus Stages Teach-In 'Protest ANN ARBOR, Michigan (CPS)-Students and faculty staged one of the biggest protests in the University of Michigan s history March 24 and hope to spread the movement nationwide. MORE THAN 2200 students, faculty, and interested citizens participated " a faculty-sponsored, twelve hour "teach-in" to protest the warlike direction of American policy in Viet Nam and to consider what to do about it. orm,n iatPr called The Drotest begun by an adhoc faculty group later ca ea Faculty Comm t ee to Stop the War in Viet Nam originally called for the cancelling of classes that day for a conference. IT IS BELIEVED the first activist-type protest .mated by thC Sir UGS?g"ttrHed the proposed work moritcr- lAg&i' -tion- bui was per; Jh L to label th Taction "unpatriotic" and "un-American." Hatched denounced il as in approp' riateAfter an eight and one-half hour meeting, on March 17 the Jroup decided to drop the work moritonum and hold the "teach-in" instead reluctance of many faculty to Eventually, more han 200 W , were marke, by three rfjw p-" "" America" Vie'0NN? BOMB SCARE forced the "teah-i to ho.d ar, u- rX W-SH. JnSer we,, good conscience his ROTC uniform. actions in Viet Nam bmKcf!K ; ",e - country" his uniform represents. AN EL PASO, Texas, freshman John Smith announced he was launching a forty-eight hour hungar strike in protest of American "supression of the Vietnamese struggle for independence independ-ence and self-determination. The men's dormitory unit showed a Viet Cong-made movie. It was interrupted by police who cleared the house's lounge in search of a bomb an anonymous tipster said was there. AT THE "TEACH-IN" John Donahue and Robert Browne of Michigan State University, both Vietnam experts, and Arthur Waskow of Washington's Institute for Policy Studies spoke. Wasko charged that the United States has violated two of its international committments. The U.S. is raiding over the border to stop infiltration when it said such action was illegal during the 1956 Suez Crisis, he said. THIS COUNTRY, he continued, is using gas warfare when President Franklin D. Roosevelt pledged the United States would never use it first. He warned that American arrogance towards the under developed de-veloped world was helping to create a corrupt concert with Western Europe and Russia to hold down that world. PROFESSOR DONAHUE said a reverse "domino theory" applies to Southeast Asia. "The people don't want wars of liberation," lib-eration," he declared. At a nidnight rally, Professor Kenneth Boulding overcame the drumming and chanting by parading hecklers of "Better Dead than Red" to warn that American society is doomed unless it stops following the Communists in using violence and terror. AFTER FIVE HOURS of seminars on United States policy and possible alternatives, the three hundred remaining "teach-in" participants voted to form the National Faculty and Student Committee to Stop the War in Viet Nam. A folk-sing rally closed the "teach-in." The group will work with the twenty-five to thirty universities univers-ities and colleges that plan to conduct "teach-ins" within the next month. |