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Show Two week sit-in ends after 10 hour fight (CPS)--A two-week-old occupation at Sir George Williams University in Montreal ended violently Tuesday after police arrested 79 students-blacks and whites-in the school's computer center. The arrests and final clearance of the center took over 10 hours and, before the process ended, the occupiers had smashed over a million dollars worth of computers, set fire to the ninth floor of the school's hall building and destroyed a complete set of the school's academic records. The occupation began two weeks ago after stuc ':nt, primarily black, gave up on a hearing committee investigating charges of racism laid against a biology professor by six blacks. They took over the computer center and five days later were backed up by another 200 whites who seized the school's faculty club. Over the weekend, it appeared as if agreement might be reached in the dispute. The administration agreed to repudiate the hearing committee and set another one in its place that would be agreeable to both parties but this plan was rejected early Tuesday morning by the faculty who favored a more militant stand against the occupation. |
