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Show Pres. Fletcher, Provost King speak at rally A motion was made to hold a non-violent protest while Institutional Institu-tional Council was meeting in the Union to support the five non-negotiable non-negotiable demands made by the United Strike Alliance. Roger Ek-ins Ek-ins denounced the motion, claiming claim-ing it would "destroy the movement move-ment if we keep pushing. We've got to stop antagonizing" people if the politically-leftist movement is to gain support from the campus and downtown community. Other speakers debated antecedent ante-cedent incidences occuring last week and Prof. Peter Appleby, Department of Philosophy, said an attempt is being made to reconvene re-convene the faculty to discuss issues pending since Friday's walk out by certain faculty members. Backdropped by the blazing Intercultural In-tercultural Center, the United Strike Alliance rallied Monday noon on the Union lawn to hear Resident James C. Fletcher re-tase re-tase additional statements on the ve demands he received last week. 1,1 the initial calm and order ol the rally, President Fletcher spoke to a crowd of approxim-alely approxim-alely 30. reinforcing the reasons he has little control over implementing im-plementing the free speech demands de-mands and regulating police and lrp movements on campus. e said the firearms carried y campus police at last week's "(" were a mistake and would l occur in the future. He said "has no jurisdiction over city g ICe and national guard troops. t, he stressed that within his er he would see that local campusd n0t bring firearms on Provost Thomas C. King ex-planned ex-planned University actions regarding regard-ing last week's arrests of 84 protestors pro-testors and the delay in releasing the Commission's report on speaker speak-er policy. Provost King said the protestors who were arrested violated University Uni-versity regulations and Utah criminal crim-inal code, of which the administration administra-tion has control over only the first. The injunction was court ordered, ord-ered, according to Provost King, and thus beyond University control. con-trol. On the speaker policy commission, commis-sion, he said the University would open hearings on its findings and stated that if its decisons conflicted conflic-ted with First Amendment guarantees, guar-antees, it would be tested in a court of law. A man from the audience, in the confusion arose and took the microphone, charging that Students Stu-dents for a Democratic Society (SDS) had set the fire. A number of persons charged that the right-wing right-wing element in the community was more likely to have set fire to the building, that SDS was the least likely. . Laury Hammcl said it was senseless to burn indiscriminately, "Don't condemn when you don't know what's happening." Law Prof. Richard Young spoke on the arrest, but was relatively inaudible above the crackling flames, shouting people and fire truck sirens. He explained that engaging in civil disobedience was one thing and that people must take the consequences of their acts. |
