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M6thof M Adinhb Monday, May 11 The morning hours were quiet on campus. lDr. . Jones sat down with the editors of the two local newspapers for a background information session. Signs began to appear on campus advertising the afternoon st udent rally and also supporting a move to the Administration Huilding by those in sympathy with the defendants scheduled to ap pear for a hearing. A joint meeting of the Discipline and Faculty Advisory committees was called but reports indicate neit her t he student representatives nor Ihe one female faculty member of the )iscipline Committee were not itied of the meeting. The action of the Executive Committee of the Trustees in appointing a special hearing committee was discussed but the questions raised to the Administration in this regard were described by some faculty as ''atuous." Others attending the meeting raised the question of due process and there was a discussion ot facult y responsibility on oc casions such as this currently tacing the University. Outside the joint meeting, other facult y members were arranging a series of "rap" sessions for Russell louse. 'T7hree sessions concerning the issues of Cambodia. academic freedom and the limits of dissent were scheduled for a three-day period. A fourth "rap" session involving a Trustee of the University already had been scheduled. At I p.m.. the Chairman of the Hoard of Trustees met with a small delegation of students. Both the Chairman and the students in volved voiced pleasure with the ione and results of the session. One situdent described the meeting as a breakthrough in com munications." Unfortunately these same st udents reported an entirely different impression to the people atending the afternoon rally. The rally on the Horseshoe. originally scheduled for noon. actually began at 2:30U p.m. There is no firm estimate of the crowd but participants and the curious are believed to have totaled not more than 4400 people. The general purpose of the rally was to urge amnesty for all those arrested in the Rlussell House incident. A petition to this effect had been circulating around campus and more names were added during the rally which was peaceful and relatively low key as compared with the two events held on the Horseshoe the week before. At approximately :3:15 p.m.. someone among the participants stood up and urged the crowd on to the Administration Building. This appeared to* be a pre-planned gest ure and the mass move to the Administration Building appears not to have been spontaneous. Approximately 250-300 people were involved in the action. The crowd took up positions in Iront of the Administration Building. Several campus securit y people were Inside the building in control of tihe front door. Since no trouble had been anticipated by tIniversity or other officials the only security available was that which could be provided by cnmpus police. alstrati( Fed by the curious, the crowd outside the building grew. The mood of the crowd was at times menacing as speaker after speaker alternately cajoled the crowd or attempted to cool emotions. Meanwhile. inside the building. stall people began moving breakable items from the lobby. 4 Ht ices were cleared and personnel told to leave the building. An at iempi was made to begin the hearings in the second floor Board Room. Only one defendant was heard. Kven while an attempt was being made to hold the hearings, im prompt u meetings were being held het ween students and Trustees whithout any fruitful results. Some of the students seemed to be leading double lives in this in stance -at one point conferring with Trustees. at other times acting as agitators. As the crowd outside grew. the threat of a physical take-over of ihe building became more real. At approximately 4:15 p.m.. the front doors were stormed. the police gave way and the building was occupied. At the moment students entered the building. the President telephoned for help to the Governor's office. The Governor was in Washington and most State oft ices were closed because of the 'onlederate Memorial Day hIoliday.I A limited number of highway patrolmen and other security people arrived at approximately [ '.3 p.m. and took up station on the second floor of the Administration Btilding. With several hundred people on the first floor. security people decided not to attempt to clear the building but rather to protect the second floor and its occupants. Meanwhile, on in structions from the President, -a telephone call was made reaf tirming the need for the National Gtard. A tew moments after the arrival of highway patrolmen. students and others began vandalizing the Treasurer's offices on the first floor. Purniture was destroyed, equipment damaged or wrecked, records dest royed or scittered and ob)scene words and phrases scrawled over walls. Police felt hey were powerless to stop the vandals because of the limited number of officers available. There was no discernable effort on t he part of the ma.jority of students in the building to stop those who were wrecking the offices. livery at tempt by st udents, facult y and administrators to cool mat ters either inside the building or at the front entrance was hooted dtown. Students inside the building continued to hurl a barrage of invective at the police stationed on the second f1oor. Many of the students in the building were demanding that Dr. .lones speak with them. The P'resident retfused because he could not accept the principal non-negotiable" demand offered earlier 'amnest y for all defen dtent s . ttinder the circumstances he felt an appearance would be ". . .an empt y gest ure" which would only enflame the situation. (In the second floor, Trustees. administrators and police waited 'somewhat impatiently for the airrival of the National Guard. I )ownst airs. siutdents barricaded bu 1 ilM doors with furniture. One student who,charged the stairs was struck across the nose with a riot club and arrested. Other students persisted in making long distance telephone calls from telephones in the Treasurer'1 office. Outside the building the crpwd grew and several automobiles parked in front of the building were very severely damaged by the onlookers. A small force of City Police arrived on the scene and these soon became involved in a rock-throwing battle with students ' i his incident was seen by millions on national television). A rumor that students in the building had tear gas prompted ollicials to t urn off air conditioners on ihe second floor. Rest rooms on the first floor were deliberately flooded. A bomb scare prompted some student - marshals to evacuate the building. Inside and outside the building, nearly everyone knew the National Guard was on its way. When the Guard finally did arrive (8:05 p.m.. students in the building hast ily evacuated the -building and t hese and onlookers moved over to the Horseshoe while the Guard look up positions immediately behind the Administration Ruilding. By 8'30 p.m.. the Administration Iluilding had been cleared of everyone except security and maintenance people and the President lr. Jones went to -his residence on campus at ap proximately 9:IM p.m. Enroute the police car in which he was riding was hit by rocks. After several warnings to the shouting students - on the Hor seshoe. the order was given to clear the area with the use of tear gas. Guardsmen moved in ranks down the Horseshoe with a cloud of iear gas in front of them. The si udent s were dispersed. Tear gas was also used by the Guard on Green Street in .the vicinity of Russell House which, with the exception of the Post Oflice and the cafeteria had been closed. A considerable amount of gas entered residence halls on the Horseshoe, residence halls along G;reen Street and in the Towers complex. Tfhe latter condition precipitated an orgy of rock and hot ile throwing in that area which lasted until the early hours of Tfuesday. Some students* claimed ex cessive use of force by police. Tlhere were several injuries and much discomfort on both sides. Tlhere were a number of arrests. l)uring the night official phot ographs t aken during the Administration B4uilding take-over were processed and studied for hit ture arrest proceedings. The President conferred with ti niversit y officials until after midnight and following a telephone con versat ion with the Governor 'T'he Governor had returned from Washington>. a curfew was an nounced f or I I p.m. 'The previously prepared petition calling for a special faculty meet ing was act ivat ed through the Secretary of the IFaculty. Tuesday, May 12 TIhe Governor issued a proclamation declaring a State of I:me'rgency on campus. Non t udent s w ere for bidden to enter ding ta the campus. meetings of more ihan six people on cahpus were torbidden, a W-N) p.m.-6:4) a.m. curlew was established. The President met with the (overnor during the morning hours. conferred by telephone with residence hall leaders and recorded a special message to si udents which was broadcast over the campus radio station and repeated every hour. A group of seventeen faculty met i o prepare an agenda for the special faculty meeting. Because of the State of Emergency regulations this and all other meet ings planned for the day were scheduled in off-campus locations. The faculty met in the Town Theatre. D uring the meeting, the faculty adopted three resolutions and six proposals to help demonstrate -the University's determination to complete' the academic year successfully. Among its- resolutions, the facult y affirmed continued support ot '. . . the tenets -of academic treedom as stated in the Student Rules and Regulations"; con demned violence or vandalism within the University; and declared ". . . its determination to do everything possible to insure ihat the University -remains open and completes its normal academic schedule." Among the six proposals ad vanced at the meeting, the faculty urged each faculty member to set aside a portion of classroom time May 13 and 14 for a discussion of t he present situation. It also urged ihat faculty and students - alike ut ilize every established means of communication, supported the e1.t,,bishm-nt .f - rumor control center, approved the idea to -have faculty student "rap" sessions in residence halls, called on everyone to' obey State- of Emergency regulations and supported Dr. .lones and others in their efforts to resolve the crisis. THE ULTIMATE THS S HELST THIS OF THENTAS. Reduced Rates for stu discount cards Features 1-3-5-7-9 keover In the evening, dissenting st udents held a rally in Maxcy Gregg Park orr campus. Par iicipants in this affair then moved to- the Statehouse. Five representatives of the group met wit h Ihe Governor but the meeting was not fruitful, primarily because ihe -tudents - presented non negotiable demands to the Governor which he did not accept. With some students- urging moderation and others angry, the group left the Capitol and moved toward the campus shortly before the start of curfew. While the rally was being held at Maxcy Gregg Park and later at the Sitatehouse, faculty volunteers had entered every residence hall on campus for pre-curfew "rap" sessions with students. The Rumor 'ontrol Center went into operation at Russell House and used the facilities of the campus radio station to separate fact from fic iion for student listeners. Student Government officers established a command post -at the nearby Sheraton Inn and attempted to develop communications between the residence halls and the security command. post in the Governor's office. However, everyone involved realized before the night was over that vom munications badly needed iightening. IDuring the night and the early hours of Wednesday, violence and vandalism again erupted, par iicularly in the areas of Bates House and the corner of Main Street and Devine Street where a cluster of- residence halls is located. Rocks and bottles were thrown by students -and others, windows were broken and a liberal amount of tear gas was used. There were a large number of arrests on various charges in UAuLAinAg %;UrAtw vAoaintA. It should be noted, however, that a substantial majority- of the %t udent body observed the curfew and other regulations imposed on the campus by the State~ of IKmergency proclamation. EXPERIENCE NEEKEND THAT YOU KE A TRIP INTO THE dents with