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Daily News from New York, New York • 5

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Daily Newsi
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DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1969 .4 i I i 4- i I I if 1 ilk A i Ml 11; r. NEWS photos by Alan Aaronson students protesting the protest at protest-prone Columbia remove chairs which formed barricade at Philosophy Hall last night (photo left). But as soon as the chairs were removed and placed on walk, sympathizers (photo right) handed them back to rebels through a window. PHILIP MIpPARTHV and DnppPT rtaoni the protesters apparently included Campus guards and 350 rebellious Columbia University students clashed last night as a university deleeation entered barriradivi PhilnsnnW Wall several high school students, from franklin and Brandeis High mg order on the sit-ins. I 'Wp baw inr.

Windows were smashed furni campus chanting Schools. They attended the rally on the library steps and said they were there to demand full scholar tion had been determined not to call Dulice onto the camnus. ture was overturned, firecrackers were exploded and a fire exting The order served on the student ships to Columbia for all blacks dissident students in-the Social Sciences Building resumed without incident' yesterday morning after an overnight moratorium. The campus was relatively peaceful except for small-scale' rallies and bull sessions intended to drum up support for a student strike tentatively scheduled for Monday. 'Despite the strike Queens College President Joseph P.

McMurray said that classes in all divisions of the college will Yesterday's takeover was un expected, because Afro-American Society members who had occu sit-ins was signed by Supreme Court Justice Jawn Sandifer and is returnable April 29. By barring loud noises and violence or threats of violence, the order effectively pied Hamilton Hall at 9 a.m. last Monday left the building early b.egun ta tight." They received a mixed reception from 2,000 student onlookers outside the building. After leaving the hall, the rebellious Students for a Democratic Society staged a rally and called for a "week-long offen- sive" against Columbia starting Monday. Spokesmen for the society said they have 4,000 local high school students ready to march on the campus Monday to protest Columbia's admission policies.

The rallv hrnkp nn nf sTimif Wednesday after university law uisher was turned on the university officials as the students tried to avoid being photo-graphed by them. Several students were reported injured. Students not sympathetic to the demonstra vers obtained a restraining order definitely be held. Harvard Faculty Asks ROTC Downgrading against the demonstrators. Before the Philosophy Hall takeover, in a 10-point policy statement, said he would seek to "increase the number of black and Spanish-American" students at the university.

also said he is considering discontinuing the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps at the university, a'prime target of dis Cambridge, April 17 (AP) By a vote of 385 to 25, naits campus rallies, it was said, Earlier in the acting university president Andrew W. Cordier had said that the barricaded students would be removed from the building by "appropriate measures." The six-hour takeover of Philosophy Hall followed a rally on the steps of Low Library by members of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Afro-American Society. The students first marched around Low Library chanting "Smash college racism," then dashed the 100 yards to Philosophy Hall, brushed aside several students standing by the doors and swarmed inside. The takeover had a new twist: Harvard's faculty of Arts and Science approved a motion today to ask the schools governing tors tried to de- Justice stroy the rebels' Sandifer. barricades by carrying chairs out of Philosophy Hall but other rebels carried chairs in as fast as they were hauled out.

"We Have Just Begun" At 11:10 p.m., 45 minutes after Refrain From Polfce Action Colombia -business manager Joseph Nye, who led the administration delegation into the hall through a basement entrance, said the court order demanded not only the immediate evacuation of the building but also cessation of all disruptive action on boards to reduce the Reserve Officer Training Corps program on the sident students, and announced that he has agreed to-4ialt both campus to the level of an extra curricular activity with jio privi involuntary eviction" from leged status. Columbia-owned apartments and uiuci was served, ine i Military training was a princi all university construction pending completion of a master plan. barricaded students left Philosophy Hall and marched off the campus. Nye added that the administra pal issue in last week's sit-in at At yueens College a sit-in by the school University Hall. mm CWi llhmvy ft- IPrt afi P.v ANTFT.

rfll atv JT fire bombs exploded in the auditorium of Gould Memorial Library on New' BRONX 0 viia cmnpus eany yesterday, touching off a two-alarm blaze that 'Up 000 worth of damao-e. the highest administration official was returning from a date at 2:30 a.m. when he spotted smoke billowing about the lighted dome of the library. He called a campus guard and then pulled a fire alarm. Two alarms were sounded apd tmv: A II Jwr "f-j york I ih MANrlATTANyj 71 LJU on me campus, said, "There is no connection, I'm sure, between the fire and the demonstrations of the past week." The library building, complements the campus' Hall of Fame; a open-air semicircular walk lined with busts of famous Americans that stands high on a bluff overlooking the Harlem River.

Jared Sfharf 91 a saniAi1 about 50 firemen broueht the biaze under control in about an hour, but not before it totally de fv 5 I GowWM.m..i1;j Library stroyed the stage, an organ in- surea ior and the build- MM I uvwi NEWS Map by Staff Artist Juffrat Map locates NYU Bronx campuw. I met pinpoint library. political science honor student, fling puunc address system. Firemen kept the flames from spreading beyond th auditorium, which occupies the basement and first floor of the four-story building. The library is part of a complex designed by famed architect Stanford White in 1889.

Two unused Molotov cocktails were found by fire marshals in the balcony of the auditorium, apparently dropped by the arsonist when the flames got too hot for him. Fire Marshall Vincent M. Canty, investigating the setting Mvre fire' Pointed out that i Bronx campus has been the scene of many-student demonstrations, the most recent of which took place Wednesday, a few hours before the bombs were triggered off. In that demonstration, a group of students paraded on the steps of the Hall of Philosophy on the Bronx campus while a faculty committee met with their representatives over the question of granting tenure to an English. in- By ROBERT WALSH legal rights of 700 students 'he said were transferred or dimissed from Franklin K.

Lane High School in Brooklyn in January for excessive absenteeism. He said that Doar was more interested in the rights of seven teachers at PS 39 than in the rights of the Lane HS students. A Board of Education spokesman said that the cases of the 700 students had been referred to the Bureau of Attendance and that each case was- being treated individually by investigating truant officers. At PS 39 yesterday, four children were reported in school by As the boycott of Public School 39 in Harlem continued for the second day yesterday, Kenneth Clark, a member of the State Board of Regents, accused Board of Education President John Doar of applying a double standard in protecting the rights of teachers over students. seven teachers were escorted into and out of the building by police.

The teachers were charged with insubordination for showing up at school the day after Thanksgiving when the local board ordered the school closed and the" central, botrd directed it to remain open to make op lost time due to the teacher strikes last fa'L charged with insubordination by i i i I iiarK saia ne was crim-ai oi But Provost W. Lewis Hyde, the board's failure- to- protect the i 'number as the day before. The tne local suvrruiDg ooara. i I I i.

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