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Vol. 88, No. 99 EVANSTON, ILL. 60201 Fri., May 3,.1968

Black student 1e a d e rJames Turner yesterday re­leased a point-by-point reo.jection of the administra­tion's, reply to a list of griev­ances submitted by blackstudents 1a s t week. Hewarned the university thathe was speaking on'the griev­ances "for the last time."

Speaking at a 1:30 p.m. ScottHall press conference , Turner saidthe adm inis tration had until" around dinnertime" to give a"yes or no" answer to each pointof a 15-point list of "minimum de­mands. "

THE UNIVERSITY gave no re-o sponse to the demands, but askedfor a meet ing with black studentstoday.

The " minimum demands" paral­leled the black studen ts' originallist of grievances that was sub­mitted to officials April 19.

At 5 p.m., Vice-President andDean of Students Roland J. Hinzmet with Kathryn Ogletree , aspokesman for For Members Only,in his office.

He gave her a six-line statementthat did not answer any of the de­mands , but asked for a meetingbetween administration officialsand black students today at 4 p.m.in Parkes Hall 122. The meeting isnot open to the public.

At the press conference at Turn­er 's request, reporters and whitessat on one side of the aisle andblack students sat on the other.

James F. Stull, assistant dean ofmen, and Sam Saran, director ofpublic relations, were asked toleave the meeting by black stu­dents . Both left.

TURNER OPENED the pressconference by telling white stu­dents who attended the meetingthat it is "good that they under­stand there's a role to be playedin informing the rest of the studentbody."

Turner said he had called thepress conference "because of aseries of events on the campusover the past one-and-a-halfyears."

He said these events included thefight -between black and white stu­dents Dec. 2 in the Sar gent 0 Hall

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There will be a meeting Mondayat 2 p.m. for all students inter­ested in working on the DailyNorthwestern for the rest of thisyear and next year. The Daily islooking for reporters, wri ters, re­viewers, photographers and car­toonists .

tion by black students April 22 wasformulated in an amendment to aresolution that senate take mea­sures to ''' quickly and peacefullytake the initiative in. . .protectingthe educational process from rac ­ism and disruption ."

A SECOND RESOLUTION pro­posed by senate treasurer DougBehr and passed near the end ofthe two-and-one-half-hour meeting,asked specifically that universityadministration ass u r e blackstudents :eThat a minimum of 50 per centof the incoming class of black stu­dents shall come from Chicago'sinner-city area.eThat at least a corridor in bothmen's and women's living units bereserved for those black 0 studentswho desire to live there .eThat a course in black historybe instituted next fall.eThat continued dialogue be main­tained with black students in re­lation to the remaining demands .

Black Freshman Senator ClydeJeffers , who co-sponsored the firstresolution with Freshman SenatorEva Jefferson and Frank Morris ,president of the Class of '70, saidafter the meeting tha t he was "sat­isfied that senate had expressedsympathy for the Negro's problemson campus."

THE AMENDMENT, proposedby Freshman Senator Caren Levysupport ing black st u d e n t s' .dema nds, passed 10 to 6.

Both resolutions were turnedover to Barb Caulfield, chairmanof the Senate Human RelationsCommittee , for implementation.

Jeffers left the meeting afterpassage of the two resolutions, re­turned before the meeting wasover and suggested that senatecall a special meeting today.

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BLACK STUDENTS SPEAK OUTAt Scott Hall meeting yesterday, Michael Smith, left, James Turner;Kathryn Ogletree and Les Harris, said they were issuing a finalset of demands for the university to answer. (Photo by CraigHodson.)

By RICHARD BOUDREAUXStaff Writer

Student Seriate last night gavequalified support to black students'demands' of the university admin­istration and unanimously recom­mended that at least three agree­ments on housing, admissionsand curriculum - be reached bythe administration immediately.

Senate called an emergencymeeting for 1 p.m. today to dealwith the racial problems .

Senate's support of seven of thedemands issued to the administra-

Senators supportblack proposals

housing proble ms w ith E. Martin' Jehn, assist antdean of me n and d ire ctor of men's housing. Storyon page 6 . (Photo by Barry Frank)

By BOB GREENEAssociate Editor

Blacks list 15 'minimum demands;officials seek to meet today

Turner setsdeadline forNU response

NO VACANCY?Two so phomores feel the housing squeeze wh ichis afflicting north campus. Bob Diebel, Tech, andSkip Eiland, an arts and sciences student, discuss

NUBlack press meeting:-integration rejection

The black students, about 30 of them, walked into 0 Scott 215.Chairs were neatly arr-anged with an aisle down the middle.White students sat On both sides."Could everyone sit on one side?" a black student said. It was

not a question."We've got this side reserved for other people," he sa id. The

whites moved over , and the blacks sat down.TillS was the tone of the whole press conference yesterday : a

complete rejection of the idea of integration.A representative of the/ nuhlic relati ons department walked in

and sat down."I' m sorry," a black student sa id. "This is strictly for press.

You'll have to leave ."Director of Public .Relations Sam Saran, standing at the back of

the room, registered an objection to this. He, too was asked to leave.Assistant Dean of Men Ja mes Stull stood outside the door. Before

he could come in he, too, was told that he was not welcome.JAMES TURNER, spokesman for the Afro-American Student Union,

sat at a front table and talked into a pair of microphones: He worea dark gray sport coat over an open-necked orange wool shirt, and apair of sunglasses.

"We're not asking for any control of this univers ity outside thethings that affect only us," he said.

What about the demands for black housing, he was asked. Howcould the university allow such a thing , after securing pledges fromsororities and fraternities not to discriminate?

Members in the audience snickered loudly."The response you just heard was from white students," he sa id.

" That should tell you something. We're not asking for a restructuringof the university. If we want to live together, that affects only us.

" I TffiNK the brothers at Columbia said the same things that we. ...are saying ," Turner said . "I should hope that (University President

Dr. J. Roscoe) Miller and .(Vice-President and Dean of StudentsRoland J .) Hinz are -more enlightened men than they have there ."

And was there any chance to avoid a conflict at Northwestern?Turner looked down. He spoke sharply.

- " We have listed our demands item by item," he said . "We wantthem answered that way, simply in the negative or the affirmati~e .

If the response is positive, then we can see the way to affirmatIvetalks .

"We want to hold down an explosion on this campus ," he said." But we also have to look out for the rights of our black students ."

NUwhites react to demands

'WE ROB BANKS'David Newman, screen write~ of "Bonnie and Clyde" listens toJack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America,blast censorship in a press conference yesterday at the OrringtonHotel. .

AINU, film writer­discusses his art

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Senior Tr ygve Sletteland sat down on the sandbeside the girls . Sletteland sa id he had noticed hisblack friends were missing from class lately butotherwise .knew littl e about the threatened black"co nfrontation."

White students' ignorance about yeste rday's pressconfere nce apparently did not mean indifference. " Idisagree with the gripe for their own studsnt union,"freshmen Br ian McCartney said, " and their demandthat the universi ty accept more blacks."

A friend of McCartney, with him at the wat er 'sedge, added that the 120 NU black students seemto be getting too much racial recognition. " Peoplehere are trying to treat them the same," the affili­ated freshman said. " I see no prejudice in dormsor classes or anything for that matter ."

ANOTHER WHITE st udent , Kip Stacy, dis­agreed . The white racism that exists on this cam­pus, he said, is subtle : " where you sit , how youtalk and your ' manner isms towards black students ."

Educ ation sophomore Pat Briley sat in the shadeof a tree by Centennial Hall . He adm itted he hadnot really ta lked about the current black situationwith white friends. " Anyhow, the three black guysin my dorm don't act like they're persecuted," hesaid .

And no matter what pressure blacks bring onadm inistrators , the university "cannot pass a rulingfor a 'Be kind to colored week," Br iley noted.

Sophomore Bill Levin, epitomized the views ofmany NU white students . " I sympathize generallywith the black position ," Levin said. " But they don'thave any right to do what they're doing. They're notrunning the university."

By JOANN LUBLINCampus Editor

The frisbee sailed through the air on Deer ingMeadow. A white Northwestern student in blue jeancut-offs caught it. On the south beach an NU coedin a bikini ran along the shore, pursued by her bare­ches ted boy friend.

NU whites yesterday afternoon vaguely recalledthat black stud ents were hav ing a press conferenceabout their grievances at Scott Hall .

But the sunshine was so warm and the lakelooked so enticing that not too many white studentsbothered to discuss the ' implications of the blackdemands.

WHEN QUESTIONED, white stud ents generallyreplied that the clash was a good thing but not reallytheir business.

" I heard something about a press conferencefrom the Daily," sophomore Steve Englander sa id.Englander lay on the sand, reading a book. " ButI wasn't sure what it was," he went on. " White stu­dents are aware of it (the black crisis ) but it hasn' taffected them firsth and."

Deena Breed, a sunba thing journ alism junior,seriously .doubted that whites at NU were aware ofrecent events between blacks and administrators." But they should talk about it more," she said." White kids are prejudiced but they won' t admit it ."

Senior Kay Krieghbaum sha red Miss Breed'sblanket. She agreed no One knew too much aboutwhat was going on.

BOTH COEDS backed the black studen ts ' de­mands but worried about what the consequenceswould be if demands were not met.

Blacks want response to grievances

a film about the bank robbers be­cause " We loved 'em. What at­tracted us to Bonnie and Clydewas their styl e and their great de­sire to become celebrities."

Newma n expla ined that thepa ir 's appeal now is based on thesame sort of things that appealedto the public and the press in the'30's - . the girl who wrote poetryas well as robbed banks andsmoked ciga rs .

HE SAID the least re levarit crit­icism of the film came from cri ticswho attacked the movie for notbeing histor ica lly accurate.

Jack Valenti, Motion PictureAsociation president and formerspecia l asis tant to P resident John­son, pra ised the movie industry for"coming to gri ps with the volatileissues of our time."

Valenti gav e an unqualified " no"to the question of film censorsh ip.He said the way to control ob-~scenity was not through the ad­ministrative decisions of a censor­ship board ' but in a cour t of law," I' m for the use of criminal stat­utes to drive the criminally offen­sive stuff off the screen, " Valentisaid.

He pointed to the new motionpicture code tha t he said asks filmmakers to inform the public abouta movie's contents but lets the in­dividual decide if he wants him­self or his child to view it.

structed not to pull their guns un­less it is to protect a life."

Senate nominated eight studentsfor membership on the Council on

, Undergraduate Life. Univer sityPresi dent Dr . J . Roscoe Miller andVice-President and Dean of Stu­dents Roland J . Hinz will selectfour to serve on next vear 's CULbeginning next fall. •

NOMINATED from a list of thir- (teen considered were Miss Caul- I

field, Behr , Will Ris, Victor Goode,B.J . Anderson, Mike Pl ace, SteveNisenb aum and Clark Sole.

In other acti on, senate voted to ­continue its cornmittment LO theAdlai Stevenson lectu res and toapprove const itutions for Studentsfor Nelson Rockefeller , Studentsfor a Better Society ,and StudentChapter of the Society of Profes­sional Engineer s.

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" We must look at this not as aproblem of the Negroes looking forseparation," Miss Caulfield toldthe group, " but as a plea by stu­dents of our constituency whoneed help with their problems."

MISS CAULFIE LD sa id aft er themeeting that she would meet alter­nately with the university admi n­istrators and black students " ulti­mately to get rid of conjecturesand come up with some concreteprograms."

Earlier in the meeting, TedArndt , univer sity secur ity chief,told senate that four campus se­curit y police are carrying side­arms, but that " the guns are notfor students.

"The quali ficiat ions of thes e fourofficers are very high in my opin­ion," Arndt sai d. "They are in-

Student senate urges NUto respond to demands

By DONNA ROSENECampus Editor

The president of the Motion Picture Associati on of America dis­cussed censorship, pornography and President John son's poor televisionimage and the co-author of " Bonnie and Clyde" talk ed about violence,social comment and the Barrow gang's bravado.

The occasio n was a press con- - - - - - --- --- -­ference yesterday in the Orr ington

I Hotel, the opening of a two daycampus film seminar sponsoredjointly by the Motion Picture Asso­ciation, the Northwestern Film So­ciety and the department of radiotelevision and film.

BEFORE last night' s freescreening of " Bonnie and Clyde"for NU stud ents and faculty,David Newman, co-screenwriter ,discussed the violence in themovie, specifically, the final am­bush that killed Bonnie and Clyde.

" I don't really defend it. It wasthe way we wanted to do it," New­man sa id of the scene . "When abullet went in we wanted it to looklike it hurt. 'Cause that' s what itdoes," he said. ~

"We were looking a t these peo­ple from the inside. When theylaughed you were supposed tolaugh and be happy too. Conse­quentl y.when they were hur t, ithur t you a little too."

NEWMAN was am used at thevarious interpre tations of the filmas social commentary. " Weweren't deliberately out to make asocial comment other than thebuilt-in one about the Depressionand this incred ible styl e and br av­ado that the real Bonnie and Clydehad," Newman sa id.

He said he and his partner, Rob­ert Benton, (who did not appear asscheduled-because of illness ) ma de

re ached the point where we find. that the university is more con­cerned with eloquent sta tementsthan with solving the problemsthat affect us ," he sa id.

Turner then distributed a six­page statement to ' the press thatoutlined the black students' reject­ion of the university 's re ply to theirdemands and listed the 15 " mini­mum demands."

THE STATEMENT BEGAN:" Having rejected the basic prin­

ciples on which our demands werebased , the administration hasforced us to spea k for the last timeon' those matters discussed at themeeting of Wedneda y, April 24,1968. We demand that such actionbe taken to meet this , our final listof demands."

The statement continued :"The univer sity must show itself

flexible enough to take in the'peculia r ities ' of our culture andbackg round . The only way, we feel,the universi ty can display its un­derstanding and flexibility is by theimmediate app rova l and imple­mentation of those demands sub­mitted by the black student body .on April 22, 1968."

The list of 15 " minimum de­mands" outlined in fur ther detailthe list of grie vances submitted byblack students April 22.

Turner said the " legitimacy ofthese dem ands can not be debated.

"This is a call for autonomy forblack st udents , for self-determin­ation on matters that concern us,"Turner said.

" All we can say is that if our de­mands are impossible, then peac ebetween us is impossible too," thesta tement concluded .

Following the press conference, aspokesman for the black studentspresented their st atement to Hinz.

UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Dr.J . Roscoe Miller met For more thanthree hours with the universityvice-presidents yesterday afte rnoonbefore Hinz emerged with the re­quest for today 's scheduledmeeting.

" Because of the seriousness ofour concern for the issues involvedin the discussion with the blackstudent organizat ions," Hinz said," the pres ident has ask ed me to calla meeting In which he and otherofficers will Join at 4 p.m. Fridayin Pa rkes Hail 122, for all blackmembers of the Northwestern Uni­versity community, including stu­dents, faculty, and staff."

Dr . Miller and the vice-presidentswill meet at 11 :30 this morning withthe deans of all the schools on theEvanston campus to discuss ' thesituation .

Turner said blacks had "takenthese grievances to the admini­st rati on," but that they " have notbeen pleased with the outcome ofthese negotia itions.

"We have persisted, but we have

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EDITORIAL

A Crucial DayA s th is day , perhaps the most mome ntous in Nor th­

western 's momentous years, begins, we feel a littl e likea good prizefighter must every time he steps into thering: we are worried, but we are confident.

. Yesterday's events brought to a head the crisis be­tween black and white on this campus.

The unive rsity response to the original black demands ,which seemed so eminently reasonable to so many whites ,was completely scorned by the black leaders.

r .

The total black response is not yet known.James Turner , the black leader who is spe arheading

the drive for black self-rule, is a most articulate and th ought­ful spokesman. We do not doubt his sincerity in procur ingfor Northwestern blacks every right enjoyed by all st udents.

Mr. Turner is not a rabble-rouser , looking for violenceand destructi?n ; he is out to solve some very real , veryurgent problems.

On the other hand, as we stated in an editorial yester­day , we are equally convinced that the university is actingin good fai th . Perhaps the adm inist rators , removed byyears and skin color from the black students, cannot seethe poin ts being advanced. But this does not mean thattheir intentions are not just or that they do not wish tobring racial peace to the campus.

Dean Hinz 's statement of yesterday afternoon was notone of cowardice. The dinner-time deadline set for un iversityresponse was impossible: Th is is not the kind of issue thatshould be decided in a few hours.

We hope black leaders can meet today with Presiden tMiller and other administrative leaders . We emphatic allyfeel that th e black demands cannot and should not be

. answered with one-word acceptances or rejections.Mr. Turner, at yesterday's press conference, said th at

he felt Dr . Miller and Dean Hinz are "enlightened, intelli­gent" men . We agree .

We also think these terms apply to Mr. Turner and hisfollowers. / I

And that is why we are confident that th is universitycan corn- • 0 this cris is with new hopes and new under-standing \' ust not panic .