Collegian - 1965 April 30

              TWE 8 WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE Cali£GiRM On
The
Up & Up
I I Vol. LVII, No. 22 Bellingham, Washington Friday, April 30, 1965
SNCC RESIGNS FROM PAC,
POLITICAL UNION PLANNED
Counter-March
Postponed For
Three Weeks
A massive pro Viet Nam
policy counter-march plan­n
e d for tomorrow in the
downtown area has been
c a l l e d of f by i t s organizers.
Their decision came after a
statement from the Bellingham
Police Department that the march
would cause a great inconven­ience
to the force and was too dis­organized.
: After hearing this, the organ­izers
agreed to postpone' their
demonstration for three weeks.
THE LEADERS of the^jnarcfr
committee wereJohiTYeager and
Audie Miafthisen, Western stu­dents,
and Kerry Helm of Belling­ham
High School. They had been
very optimistic and expected a
turnout of over 400 students and
townspeople for the planned
march.
The march was primarily de­signed
to counter the peace march
held here on April 17 and to dem­onstrate
in favor of the U. S. tac­tics
in Viet Nam.
' Their route of march was the
same as the last group and they
even planned to rally at the Bell­ingham
Hotel to hear two Uni­versity
of Washington professors
speak. One of the speakers re­portedly
couldn't make the date
anyhow.
THE GROUP'S signs had been
printed free pf charge by a Se­attle
printing company and the
group hoped to have an American
Legion color guard lead the dem­onstration.
But, the organizers, still plan to
have some sort of demonstration
on Saturday, May 21. They are
not certain if they will march
though.
Munro Names
NewCommiiiee
The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) c h a p t e r on campus q u i e t l y gave u p i t s seat on
t h e Public Affairs Commission early this week just;
as t h e AS L e g i s l a t u r e began t a l k i n g about s t a r t i n g a
political union.
SNCC'S initial move came at a
PAC sub-committe investigation
hearing called Tuesday to discuss
SNCC's future on campus. Before
discussion started, a SNCC
Trustees Doubt
IT'S THAT TIME—Spring brings out the athletic-prone, especially
with these long spring days flooded in warm sunlight. Belfingham
boasts many tennis courts and it won't be long before they'll start
to be crowded again. -Photo,by Lance
WEATHER
Sunny skies not expected to
last through the entire weekend.
Chance of scattered showers.
Highs in the 70's, lows in the 50's.
Sightseeing and skiing, at Mt.
Baker will be good this week­end.
Chairs and tows in opera­tion.
Tavern March
Everybody Is getting into the
marching scene lately—even the
local beerdrinkers. A group of 30
Western chuggers plan to march
from tavern to tavern in the
downtown area tomorrow. What
are they protesting? 3.2 beer, of
course.
Several members ~: of
Western's Board of Trus­t
e e s told T h e Collegian yes­t
e r d a y t h a t t h e y w e r e dis­satisfied
with the tuition
h i k e bill passed by the
S t a t e Legislature l a st
week.
The bill, after two weeks in
committees and a Senate amend­ment,
passed the House late last
week. It doesn't provide for a
mandatory tuition -increase, but
leaves the decision of raising tui­tions
up to the boards of trustees
at the thre state colleges.
Board Chairman Joseph Pern-berton
and Trustee Marshall For­rest
said they were personally
opposed to raising fees, but that
they would have to base their de­cisions
on the needs of the col­lege.
All money raised by a hypothe­tical
raise in tuitions would be
fed back into the college's general
fund instead of going to the Gov­ernor's
budget. ,
"If the need is not very critical,
I don't think that there will be
a raise," Pemberton said.
This Quarter
Commie May Speak On Campus
I t ' s beginning to look as
if a spokesman for the
American Communist Par­t
y may become the first
t h i s y e a r to test Western's
year-old liberal speaker
policy.
AS President Ralph Munro hint­ed
that there is a "possibility"
that a Communist will speak on
campus this quarter. He gave no
details.
Munro bargained with the
American Communists earlier this
week to have their Secretary Gus
Hall address the students during
next week's International Aware­ness
Week.
THE PARTY backed down and
told Munro that it wouldn't be
feasible for Hall to be on the west
coast at that time.
"Due to conflicts in time, space
and activities involving Aware­ness
Week, Gus Hall will not
speak on campus next week,"
Munro told The Collegian.
He did mention that a spokes­man
— Munro didn't mention
names—might possibly speak here
on campus before the end of the
quarter though.
WESTERN STUDENT leaders
attempted to invite Hall to the
campus for a short speech in the
early portion of 1962, but then
President James L. Jarrett met
with the Board of Trustees and
cancelled the proposed visit. .
"It was decided that the College
stood to lose more than it would
gain by sponsoring such an
event," Jarrett said in a press in­terview.
Western followed suit after The
University of Washington, Cen­tral
and Eastern Washington State
Colleges denied Hall a platform
on their, campuses.
Munro told The Collegian last
night that other state colleges
were now also interested in allow­ing
a Communist, speaking privi­leges.
A Collegian columnist during
the 1962 hassle. Dave Colburn,
See 'COMMD3' Page 2
spokesman announced their de»-
cision to.resign their seat.
"We feel that our membership,
on the PAC is unnecessary and,
irrelevent and we feel JSNCG
shouldn't be a member for th«
same reason that the Young Dem­ocrats
and Republicans are not
members," their statement said.
The SNCC representatives at-,,
tending the hearing asked to.be.
recognized as a group: of students.
operating on campus not as a
club, but as a chapter of a na­tional
organization which has. no.
official constitution.
It is college policy that campus
clubs have a written constitution.
"If it is. necessary that the col­lege
form a new policy to deal
with organizations of this nature,
we respectfully request that this
be done," the spokesman said.
A WRITTEN statement which
they read pointed out that their
primary stand in regards to the"
April 17 peace march downtown
is that' they support the right to
demonstrate.
"We want to aplogize to those
whom we have offended by our
actions," the statement continued, -
Just 24 hours earlier, the AS
Pfesident Ralph Munro appointed
a committee during the AS Legist
lature meeting to investigate the
possibility of forming a political
union on campus.
There has been talk among stu­dent
government office candidates
that' a political union would best
care of Western's political groups
—including SNCC.
EXECUTIVE V I C E PRESI­DENT
Dean Foster pointed out to
the solons that they must know
where they stand on representa-tion
of such campus political
groups.
MJunro seems quite favorable t»
the idea of a union.
"I think this is a damned good
idea and I hope that such a union
can be set up with all due expedi­ency,"
Munro said.
Munro's committee includes
Foster as chairman, Guy Hager,
Byron Mauk, Denny Freeburn,
Dave Smith and Steve Smith.
They will report their findings
within two weeks.
Signs Of Spring
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