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action and
reaction

as students return
they encounter
hard line policies;
new work areas

california regents initiate policies
to control campus papers

chicago authorities begin prosecution
of alleged conspirators

SAN FRANCISCO - (CPS) - San Francisco
State President S. I. Hayakawa has locked the
offices of the San Francisco Daily Gator,
student newspaper, "to protect furniture and
equipment...pending assumption of the office
by the new student government."

Hayakawa has a long-standing feud with the
Gater, which is officially suspended from
publication but which will be able to publish on
a daily basis this fall from advertising and
personal contributions.

The Gater viciously attacked Hayakawa in
its first issue claiming, in one headline,
"Hayakawa seizes associated students cash
office."

Editor Greg deGiere was not extremely
upset with the action, but claimed, "We have a
right to use the building." deGiere said the staff
will find a base somewhere near the campus.
Hayakawa has attempted prosecuting the Gater
in the courts, but action has become bogged
down in such technical questions as whether
the paper can use the name "Gater" legally.

The "new student government" Hayakawa
referred to is the result of a Circuit Court
decision that student government elections
endorsed and restricted by Hayakawa are legal.
The president had forbidden certain candidates
to run in recent elections, and the present
government is favorable to him. The Daily
Gater is not.

LOS ANGELES — (CPS) - Chancellor
Glenn S. Dumke's office of the 19-campus state
college system in California announced Friday
that the Trustees will consider tighter control
over state college student newspapers at the
October 28-29 meetings.

A ten-page "advisory" report compiled by
the Chancellor's office will be used as a basis
for discussion. It is the fourth major report to
be compiled by university administrators on
campus publications to come out this year.

Administrators at Minnesota, Purdue and
Morehead State (Kentucky) College have
produced similar documents. The Purdue
report, now widely circulated among university
presidents incorporates brief studies of
student newspapers at Michigan, Cornell,
Harvard, Iowa, Northwestern and Wisconsin
universities.

The California report, which admits relying
heavily on the Purdue report, recommends the
chancellor . . . to insure that each state college
review and alter or establish . . . methods of
control that will most likely solve the problems
of student publications without censorship."

Dumke's office said the Trustees "will
consider all aspects of student publishing
including control, content and financing."
Sources in Sacramento hinted the report was
pushed through during the summer after it
appeared the San Francisco State Gater would
continue publishing despite its formal suspension
by S.I. Hayakawa. The report could not be
confirmed, however.

Information Officer Charles Davis said the
report is the culmination of a study that began
last fall during the SF State strike. The report
challenges the right of student newspapers to
support specific candidates for student body
offices - "especially if the paper is supported
by student funds. It criticizes editors for giving
"minority groups" large sections of the paper
"to express views and opinions not necessarily
reflected in the entire student community."

Davis says the question of control is
outlined in a section of the report that asks
"whether editors reflect and represent campus
wide views." The report specifically describes
the purpose of a campus newspaper "to serve
the general welfare of the student body and the
college as a whole."

It is not known what group or person
compiled the report.

CHICAGO (CPS) - The sign says "Welcome
to Chicago: Richard J. Daley, Mayor." But thus
far the welcome by U.S. District Judge Julius
Hoffman has been far from warm for the eight
men known as the "conspiracy eight."

During the first day, one of the defense
attorneys Leonard Weinglass called for Judge
Hoffman "to serve the interest of justice" by
disqualifying himself from the case. Hoffman
has, according to the defense, showed self-prejudice
for the government's side. That
motion and a dozen others were denied by
Hoffman who at one point remarked, "This is
going to be a long trial."

In an attempt to get a "representative body
of jurors," the defense told Hoffman that
prospective jurors had been drawn only from
registered voters. That group, according to the
defense, comprises only 64 per cent of the
community. Within the district there are
4,438,597 people of voting age. Only
2,802,332 are registered to vote. Among those
of voting age not registered are young people
under 25, migratory people who have not been
in the district for more than a year, blacks who
are alienated from political parties, and
apolitical persons "who have chosen for one
reason or another not to register.

Weinglass said, "We want a truly representative
body of the community... We have a right
to have people who have been opposed to
political processes and who have refused to
register to vote." A representative body is not
one made up of only "people who have
affirmed belief in the system by registering to
vote," he said.

Judge Hoffman denied the request for a
more representative body.

While massive crowds waited outside the
federal building, only 100 spectators and 75
members of the press were allowed inside the
court room. The trial is expected to drag on
well into the fall.

CHICAGO - (CPS) - The trial of the
"Conspiracy" on charges resulting from the
1968 Democratic Convention demonstrations
has opened in Chicago amid threats of mass
protests, accusations that the judge is prejudiced
against the eight defendants, and a
dispute over press coverage.

On trial for crossing state lines to incite a
riot are:

Dave Dellinger, 53, Chairman of MOBE
(National Mobilization Committee to End the
War in Vietnam), editor of Liberation magazine,
a pacifist who was jailed in World War II
for refusing induction.

Ronni Davis, 28, MOBE project director
for the convention, former community organizer.

Tom Hayden, 29, SDS founder, author,
co-project director for the convention

Abbie Hoffman, 32, planner of Yippee
"Festival of Life" during convention week,
author, former SNCC field worker in Miss.,
known for absurd performances before Congressional
committees.

Jerry Rubin, 39, Yippie leader, leader of
Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, project
director for 1967 Pentagon protest.

Bobby Scale, 32, Oakland, Calif., Acting
Chairman of Black Panthers.

John Froines, 29, MOBE staff, assistant
chemistry professor at University of Oregon.

Lee Welner, 29, sociology graduate student,
Northwestern University.

All are charged under the anti riot section
(title 18) of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, which
makes it a felony to travel from one state to
another, write a letter, send a telegram, make a
phone call or speak on radio or television with
intent to encourage any person to participate in
a riot - riot meaning an act of violence by one
or more persons part of an assemblage of three,
which "shall result in injury to the property of
any other person."

The trial will provide the first constitutional
st of the law, which the defense and the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) content
violates the First Amendment's protection
of free speech and assembly

Scheduled during the first week were a
candlelight march on the eve of the trial and a
mass protest on the steps of the courthouse
Sept. 24, the opening day. On Oct. 8-11, SDS
and the Black Panthers have called for militant
action in Chicago to "bring the war home."

A spokesman for the Committee to Defend
the Conspiracy, an organization raising funds
for legal defense of the accused, told CPS
another demonstration is planned for the day
the verdict delivered. The trial is expected to
last two or three months.

In addition, Yippe leader Hoffman has
threatened to turn Chicago into a vast "People's
Park" of protests. "Welcome to the World
Series of American injustice," he told the press
here. "We are the Conspiracy versus the
Washington Kangaroos, who are outside agitators.
We got walloped bad by the Chicago Pigs,
our crosstown rivals, last year, but we've had a
year to learn."

Presiding over the case is U.S. District
Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman, 74, who has a
record of giving harsh sentences to draft
resisters. Defense lawyers have claimed publicly
that the eight indicted men would have "great
difficulty in getting a fair hearing" before
Hoffman, because he has already shown
hostility in court, limited the spectators to so
small a number that a public trial is impossible,
and limited unfairly their challenges of
prospective jurors.

Judge Hoffman, called Mr. Magoo by
radicals because of his resemblance to the
General Electric Co.'s near-sighted mascot,
could give the "Chicago 8" up to 10 years in
prison, if they are convicted, and a maximum
fine of $20,000 each.

Chief prosecutor is U.S. District Attorney
Thomas Foran, a Democrat.

Chief U.S. District Court Judge William
Campbell originally issued a directive prohibiting
camera and recording equipment in the
building, lobby and surrounding streets and
sidewalks of the Federal Building, site of the
trial.

But after nine reporters, one camerman and
a legal researcher were arrested on charges of
defying Campbell's order, and after the
executive board of the Chicago Newspaper
Guild voted to join the ACLU in challenging
the order's constitutionality, the judge modified
it to allow for interviews and photo
sessions in a room inside the building and on
floors without courtrooms.

The ban on activity just outside the building
where the newsmen were arrested remains in
effect though.

Meanwhile, the fourth policeman to be
indicted on charges of using undue violence
during the convention was acquitted this week.
Police Sgt. Arthur Bischoff, 38, was found
innocent of violating the civil rights of a
photographer.

Three other Chicago policemen have been
acquitted of the same charge, and three have
yet to stand trial.

in michigan students plan rent strike,
while ucla students protest professor's dismissal

MADISON, Wisconsin - (CPS) - The
University of Wisconsin has become the third
school to begin a community-wide rent strike
this month as students have organized the
Madison Tenants' Union.

The Badger campus follows the lead of
University of Michigan students who are
beginning their second year of striking and the
University of California students at Berkeley
who have begun a rent strike this fall.

Spokesmen for the Madison Tenants' Union
claimed "an extremely tough fight will be on
our hands" because "Wisconsin laws are the
most fascistic in the country with regards to
tenants' rights."

He said the state's laws allow for "immediate
three-day" eviction for the withholding of
rent. The Wisconsin Student Association (WSA)
is supporting the independent union.

In Berkeley, an $821,000 damage suit has
been filed against one management firm, and
numerous apartment buildings have been
damaged by fire and breakage as the rent strike
is taking over as the number any issue on
campus.

House painter Stanford Rose, who pays $35
per month along with 17 other male tenants in
a house near the Berkeley campus, is suing his
landlords, the city, and, city officials for failing
to correct housing code violations. Rose lives in
167 square feet with an unvented gas heater in
a flat with one bath and one shower for 17
tenants.

Meanwhile, landlords are facing other
problems including arson and general destruction.
One duplex was almost completely
destroyed with the landlord estimating it will
cost at least $6,000to repair it.

Operators of a 32-unit apartment only two
blocks from the campus are considering
whether or not to re-open this fall "because of
the extensive damage and the time necessary
for repair."

Landlords in Ann Arbor and Berkeley are
attempting to counter tenants' actions with
"radical" clause amendments to the leases,
higher damage deposits, and forcing leases to
put their parents' names on the leases regardless
of the student's age.

The radical clauses ask the lessee to waive
his rights to strike, to withhold rent, to certain
sections of state laws, or to a jury trial if the
case would ever be brought before court. One
firm in Ann Arbor has also sent letters to
parents of students renting from it asking for
greater security and assurances.

Ann Arbor tenants union lawyers, however,
told CPS, "Most of these attempts are clearly in
violation of the Constitution and won't be able
to stand up in court."

In Ann Arbor organizers are reaching their
stated goal of 2,000 new strikers this year and
are continuing plans for a nation-wide conference
late this year. The union has won more
than 50 rent reductions and numerous other
legal battles and has been recognized supplies in
the student government building.

SAN FRANCISCO - (CPS) - University of
California regents may have turned UCLA into
another San Francisco State.

Voting in the largest secret session since the
firing of Clark Kerr, the regents decided Friday
to fire UCLA Black Philosophy Professor
Angela Davis. She is an avowed American
communist.

The UCLA campus is expected to erupt in
violence if Chancellor Charles E. Young goes
along with the decision, as expected. The firing
is the first implementation since 1950 of a
1940 regental bylaw forbidding communists to
teach on the California campuses.

The action is remarkably similar to the State
Board of Trustees' action last year at this time
when they voted to fire George Murray, a Black
Panther instructor at San Francisco State. The
firing ignited demonstrations which eventually
led to the massive strikes.

Both incidents were engineered by Gov.
Ronald Reagan who has demanded Miss Davis'
firing in several recent public speeches. The
regents were not expected, however, to follow
Reagan's dictum this time. Sources in Sacramento
say the decision has the full support of
both Reagan and Chancellor Young.

An eleventh hour attempt by UCLA
Director of Afro-American Studies, Robert
Singleton, failed. Only he and Chancellor
Young were admitted to the executive session.
He had warned the regents of "grave consequences"
if they made the decision.

Singleton has not indicated what his newly
organized department will do, but the black
student union has announced it will "begin
some form of potent activity."

Chancellor Young agreed early this summer
to a number of BSU demands following
demonstrations last spring. Among these
demands was the official sanctioning of the
building the BSU has occupied for several
months as the Afro-American Student Center.

Miss Davis graduated magna cum laude and
Ph Beta Kappa from Brandeis University in
1965 after spending her junior year at the
Sorbonne. She did graduate work under radical
professor Herbert Marcuse at the University of
California at San Diego.