Oregon daily emerald., January 21, 1970, Page 4, Image 4

ROTC programs attacked
at Rutgers, Wisconsin
By RICK FITCH
College Press Service
WASHINGTON (CPS)—ROTC programs at Rut
gers and the University of Wisconsin have been
hit by incidents of student disruption.
At Rutgers, the fire-bombing of an Army ROTC
building set off a series of protests against ROTC
that culminated in the arrest of 21 SDS members
for disrupting a meeting of the school’s Board
of Governors.
The FBI is currently investigating the bombing,
which did minor damage to window frames, cur
tains and an office machine. The next day the dean
of students cancelled an orientation session for
freshmen scheduled by the Army ROTC when 40
demonstrators showed up. SDS had earlier an
nounced their intention to stop ROTC from re
cruiting.
When a demonstrator tried to enter the meet
ing, a scufflle broke out during which many of the
demonstrators were able to gain entry. They de
bated with 20 or so freshmen who had appeared
for the orientation, but the meeting was officially
called off. Some 461 are currently enrolled in
ROTC at Rutgers.
Two days later, 21 students were arrested on
trespassing and disorderly conduct charges for
carrying before the Board of Governors their de
mands for an end to ROTC and an end to the
institution’s allegedly discriminatory treatment
of Black and Spanish-American workers. Forty
participated in all.
The disturbance, which took place in the Presi
dent’s Dining Room, involved the first use of
outside police on Rutger’s New Brunswick campus
in its history. The students began chanting after
entering the meeting, preventing any official from
speaking. When the University president announc
ed the intruders would have to leave in 10 min
utes or face suspension, few left.
After 10 minutes were up, the president, Mason
Gross, said, “Those of you who are here are sus
pended from the University pending judicial review
. . . Since you are suspended, you are now tres
passers.” Two hours later, 30 police in riot gear
arrested the students and released them shortly on
$25 bail.
President Gross subsequently announced that
henceforth the school would not serve as a sanc
tuary from the law for student lawbreakers. He
pledged university cooperation with local police
in handling situations that previously had been
dealt with under internal university regulations.
At the University of Wisconsin’s Milwaukee cam
pus, a faculty member and eight youths, five of
them students, were arrested after they marched
into ROTC offices on campus. Seven, including the
faculty member, were charged with “misconduct on
public grounds” under a state law which went into
effect last August to deal with campus demonstra
tions.
Several military-related facilities in the area of
Wisconsin’s Madison campus were sabotaged or
fire-bombed by a group identifying itself as the
“Vanguard of the Revolution.” The actions came
shortly after an Army munitions plant 35 miles
north of Madison was subject to the first known air
attack on an American munitions plant on its native
soil.
Authorities say the saboteur stole a Cessna-150
from a suburban Madison airport, dropped fire
bombs onto the munitions plant, then landed at an
obscure rural airport. The explosives failed to go
off. The plant makes gunpowder used in Vietnam.
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