Berkeley students vote to strike
By MIKE PARFIT Editor
Rick Brown, a member of the Berkeley Center for Participant Education, finished his speech. The 3,000 students standing in the courtyard below the Sproul Hall steps waited impatiently under a cold, grey sky. Then another student took the mike.
“We’re going to take the strike vote now,” he shouted.
Near the stand another student shouted back: “No^wait a second—what kind of an organization is this?”
The speaker ignored him.
“All in favor of a strike ’til tomorrow night please raise their hands.”
There were cheers and a large number of uplifted hands.
“All opposed ..The speaker didn’t need to count. “It clearly passed by a large majority,” he shouted.
Members of the strike committee began passing out red arm bands and making announcements: “Everybody picket, or there won’t be any strike ... Please donate here for armbands .. .’’Then the crowd began to chant: “Strike, strike, strike.....”
The strike had been called as part of a continued protest against what many of the students at Berkeley call a serious attempt to limit academic freedom. The protest is centered on five resolutions passed by the University of California Board of Regents on Sept. 20. The resolutions stated, among other things, that “no one may lecture or lead a discussion for more than one occasion during a given academic quarter on a campus in courses for university credit, unless he holds an appointment with the appropriate instructional title.”
The resolutions were passed as a direct result of a planned class, titled Social Analysis 139X, which was to include 10 guest lectures by Eldridge Cleaver, a Black Panther leader. Because of the resolutions, students who signed up for the course are not receiving credit.
Since Sept. 20, a number of students on the Berkeley campus have been wearing a button that reads: On campus—for credit—as planned.
It was only last week, however, that the action surrounding 139X precipitated, eventually leading to yesterday’s attempt at a strike.
The week started quietly with a sit-in in Sproul Hall, staged, for the most part by students in the Social Analysis class. But the sit in, in the words of University Chancellor Roger W. Heyns “went beyond the (wide range of dissent allowed within the university) and could not be permitted to continue.” Heyns decided that the protesters should be arrested, and 120 were taken to jail.
The following night 72 students took over Moses Hall on the campus and remained there behind barricades until between 150 and 200 police and highway patrolmen broke down the barriers and arrested all those occupying the building.
Chancellor Heyns subsequently announced that the 72 students would be suspended.
Yesterday found the campus of 28,000 confused and talkative about the issues.
“I’m not usually political,” one student told the Daily Trojan, “But this thing goes beyond politics.”
A woman student said that she was not working with any militant groups, but that she would support a student strike.
Most of the students, whether they were interested or not, found their hands full of leaflets being passed out by a number of different organizations. “Strike On,” said one. Another described “What really happened in Moses Hall,” and a third expounded on “The Faculty and the Crises!’ One self-confessed non-student distributed a paper with a headline “Vote Communist.”
The Daily Californian, the student newspaper, in connection with several other groups, sponsored a day-long conference in which interested students could talk with faculty members and administrators.
Chancellor Heyns made himself available for one of the conferences. He sat in a small room from 9 a.m. to noon, discussing the issue.
“A strike is a completely inneffective and inappropriate device for an academic community,” he said. “It’s totally inconsistent with everything a university stands for.”
He was asked why he dismissed the 72 students arrested in Moses Hall.
“We didn’t start the violence,” he said.
Somebody laughed: “What violence was there?”
‘There was a real threat of violence,” Heyns continued. “I believe that the people who were involved in Moses Hall were engaged in a real disruption of this university and that because of this their rights as students should be suspended. I want to make it clear that this sort of tactic is not going to be tolerated.”
The students themselves were not overly tolerant of the tactics used in the seizure of Moses Hall.
“I personally think the sit-ins were ill advised,” said John Lyons, one of the organizers of the conference. “But right now there are things going on which, in a sense, have been brought into play from those actions.”
The things that he was talking about were the vote for a student strike that was cast at noon yesterday, and another strike vote, by the American Federation of Teachers, Local No. 1570. This union, which is composed mainly of teachers’ assistants, voted yesterday afternoon not to boycott classes. However, it also suggested that its members honor student picket lines, which, in the words of one student, “left it pretty much up to the individual TA’s themselves.” A strike by teachers’ assistants would effectively close down many of the university’s larger classes.
But even some of the men leading the strike were not sure of an overwhelming demonstration.
“It should be a moderate success,” said Peter Camejo, who was the leader of the Moses Hall takeover. Camejo did not believe that his tactics in the Moses Hall incident were as poor as some students said.
“We waited for three weeks to go through all due process,” he said, “We feel that we had to take a real moral stand.”
The demands on which many of the students are now taking a stand are: The university must give credit for 139X; the Regents’ resolutions must be rescinded; the students suspended must be reinstated; there must be no double jeopardy for any political acts; the university must improve minority admissions and hiring practices.
As the school day ended at Berkeley even some of the ubiquitous dogs were wearing red bands, and a man walked in a picket line shouting:
“Don’t buy a scab education. Honor the strike.”
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1968, VOL. LX, NO. 28
Yogi calls for peace in oneself
“People do not know what peace is. Imbalance and insanity are diseases the modern world has not been able to cure. Peace must start with oneself. If one person has peace in his heart it will spread to his group, then city, then country.”
Yogacharya Binay Marayan, an expert on yoga, called for individual conscience in his talk, “Hindu Philosophy and the Values of Meditation”, Friday.
The 60-year-old Marayan is considered a living example of the ancient Hindu teachings. His title, Yogacharya. means one who has experienced the yoga.
“Yoga is the technique of performing the right action,” said Marayan. “It comes of a balance between the mind and body, or a peaceful heart.”
Marayan, a member of the Yogoda Sat-Sansanga Society or Self-Realization Fellowship, has utilized the techniques of yoga in a 36-year search for life’s meaning.
These techniques are based on two ideas: know oneself and control oneself. “One who controls himself has realization, thus balance. We have complicated our life with habits and moods,” he said.
Before the mind and body can achieve harmony these moods must be eliminated. Marayan said. “Persist. Make an effort to always be cheerful. Do not say that a water glass is half empty, but half full. If you see emptiness all around your heart will also become empty.”
He who has a peaceful heart has a wisdom transcending all knowledge and learning, said Marayan. “It is all in the heart. If the heart is empty, what use is there to fill the mind with rubbish?”
For Marayan, the goal of life is personal harmony. One must also live a useful life. “I would be happy if I could help one or two persons.” He helped found several schools, a tuberculosis hospital and a clinic in his native India.
Self-knowledge and self-peace will lead the way to world understanding, he said. The Yogacharya recommends that each person try to better himself before he takes on the task of bettering the world.
POEM CONTEST ENTRIES DUE
Entries in the "Son of the Daily Trojan Poetry Contest" soared to eight yesterday.
"Alas." spake Bill Dicke, city editor. "Wouldst we had more entries."
The deadline for submission of poems is Nov. 20. Number of entries per person is unlimited and the winner may receive a cash prize.
YOGACHARYA BINAY MARAYAN
Photo by Jamie Baldwin
Watts band will not play for Troy week
The Watts 103rd Street Band will not appear at the Troy Week Ball on Nov. 16 due to hard feelings following a confrontation the group had with the campus police when they played in the Grill last spring.
“The band drove onto campus to bring their equipment to the Grill,” said Steve Schmidt, ASSC entertainment committee chairman. They were stopped by the campus police. There was an angry exchange of words and a gun was pulled on the leader of the group, Charles Wright.”
The band was allowed to deposit their instruments at the Grill but were then asked to park off campus. They performed the contracted concert and were extremely well received.
However, Bill Mauk, ASSC president, reported that because of the incident, the ASSC had to break the contract with them for the Troy Week dance.
The ASSC has announced that “Deep Purple” and “Things to Come”, will perform at the Troy Week dance.”
The 10 3rd Street Band was
discovered by Bill Cosby, comedian and television personality. They provide background music for Cosby’s albums. They have also cut their own record, “The Watts 103rd Street Band.”
Campus police accused of choking youth on Row
The campus police have been accused of choking and manhandling a young boy while apprehending three youths on the Row early Friday morning.
James P. Barrett, a senior in psychology, made the accusation yesterday in a letter to the Daily Trojan.
Elton D. Phillips, university business manager, whose office has jurisdiction over the campus police, promised an investigation.
“About 2:15 a.m. two campus police apprehended three kids about
14	or 16 years old, who were carousing about the Row ... A friend and I went over to where the officers were holding these kids waiting for the LAPD to arrive,” wrote Barrett.
“As the officers were questioning their ‘suspects’ as to name, address, etc., one kid was hesitant with his address, explaining that he has just moved and wasn’t sure of his new address...
“However, every time he started to hesitate, one of the officers would grab the kid by his throat with both hands and choke him hard.
“Later he choked him over the hood of the car. When he tried to explain, the same officer nearly picked him up by his hair, then choked him again.
“None of this occurred after the LAPD arrived,” he concluded.
Phillips said he will talk to the two officers involved.
“We obviously can’t tolerate the things we are trying to correct,” he said. “If what I hear is true it is completely beyond the scope of their instruction.”
As yet, the only information Phillips says he has is that the campus police received a call from a house mother complaining that there were youths around the sorority’s bicycles.
Three boys were arrested by the LAPD and booked on violation of curfew. One was also booked on drunkenness. The campus police do not make arrests.
Victor Sargeant, head of the campus police, has said only, “If there is an
investigation, I don’t know about it.”
Barrett said the boy did nothing in his estimation, to provoke the abuse. To the policeman’s “Don’t give me any lip, kid” and “Don’t be a smart ass,” the boy answered, “Hey, man.” Barrett said.
“The boys were just going back and forth between the houses to see what trouble they could get into,” he said.
He accused only the one campus policeman of hitting the boy, although the other participated in the verbal abuse.
John Moore was with Barrett at the time. “The policeman leaned the kid backwards over the car and started beating his head against the car. The littlest one was the one he was beating fiercely,” Moore said.
“It took the LAPD about 30 minutes and when they came, they came with three cars for three little kids.”
John Dunwoody, who was studying in the Tau Kappa Epsilon House at the time of the incident, supports the campus police.
“The boy shouted obscenities at the policeman. He was trying to intimidate the policeman because he was a Negro.
“He asked him for his address and the boy refused. He got everything that was coming to him. It was a matter of action and reaction.
“The boy thought he was being hurt but that’s because he had an audience.
“He was being unruly. I thought he was drunk,” Dunwoody said.
LAPD still seeking man for dorm attack of coeds
No new clues have been found to identify the man who broke into the woman’s dormitories Thursday night and attacked four coeds.
In a separate incident a plate glass window was broken in Birnkrant Hall Sunday morning between 1:30 and 2. The police have no information about the incident.
Allen Brooks, assistant director of the residence halls, speculated that the man had probably entered through an open window in one of the ladies rest rooms. The window was closed when the Pinkerton guard checked at 11:30, and it is not known how or when it was opened.
Brooks said that although nothing new is to be added to the present alarm system, it has been made impossible for some windows, such as the one in question, to be opened from the inside. Because it is
CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER
Democratic action leader to speak
Joseph Rauh, national campaign director for Eugene McCarthy and vice-chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, will speak on campus today at 11 in front of Tommy Trojan.
A practicing attorney in Washington, D.C., Rauh is a recognized authority on civil liberties and civil rights. Acting as General Counsel of the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights, he and Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP were the chief lobbyists for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
One of the founders of ADA, Rauh served as chairman of its national executive committee in 1948. He served in that capacity until 1952 when he resigned to become vice-chairman. Other ADA members who have held the post
include Hubert Humphrey and Walter Reuther.
In addition to being the Washington counsel for the United Auto Workers, Rauh represents the United Shoeworkers, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the International Woodworkers of America.
A specialist in laws concerning mass communications, Rauh has also defended those accused of federal loyalty and security violations.
The 57-year-old lawyer has participated in many network radio and TV debates and written articles concerning civil rights for various publications.
Rauh graduated from Harvard College and the Law School. He received his degree in 1935.
impossible to open the window from the outside, Brooks feels that one of the women must have opened it after the guard’s check and then forgot to close it.
“I think most people realize that this could have happened even in their own home,” Brooks said. “It was obvious that no negligence on our part was involved.”
He feels that it never would have happened if the prowler had not chanced to find the open window. However, they are taking the precaution of adding an extra policeman to patrol the dorms from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. It was rumored that a guard would be in the corridors, but Brooks said that would be impractical.
He also said that he did not think that the broken window discovered Sunday morning was in any way connected with Thursday’s incident.
Since only the door, not the glass itself, is hooked to the alarm system, it was not set off when the window was broken.
Brooks noted that in order to shatter the glass, the noise would be so great that it in itself would be sufficient alarm.
There are no clues as to how the window was broken or who did it. There were no bricks or rocks found nearby, which leads Brooks to think that the window had been kicked in.
A night watchman passed the door at 1:30 Sunday morning. At that time the window was in one piece. At 2
a.m a girl returning from a date noticed the break and reported it to the Pinkerton guard on duty in the EVK-Harris dorm.
“I cannot deal with theories. I must deal in facts,” said Victor Sargeant, head of the campus police.