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Students Organize

Meanwhile, though the campuses
have been quiet in the early
weeks of 1969-70, students have
been organizing.

At the University of Colorado
students have formed a tenants
union and are ready to begin a rent
strike. Rent strikes already are
underway in the communities surrounding
the universities of Michigan,
Wisconsin, and California at
Berkeley.

Promotion of the Oct. 15
Moratorium appears to be the
major student political activity of
the fall. Leaders of the national
Vietnam War Moratorium Committee
claim students at more than
500 colleges are committed to
spending that date in teach-ins,
rallies, and vigils against the war.

Activities are proceeding at such
disparate institutions as Berkeley,
where the city council voted 5-4
recently to support the Associated
Students of the University of
California in their planned "day of
demonstrations," and Western Illinois
University, where 1,200 have
signed petitions supporting the class
boycott and moratorium rallies
have drawn crowds of 600.