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* Ackerman While people were dancing, an alleged F.B.I. man was taking pictures which apparently will be used to identify the protestors. F.B.I. man Faculty photographs ROTC participants The \Revolutionary Dance Class 101\ disrupted ROTC training classes last Tuesday for the second week in a row. The demonstrators also expressed Dance class support for the November Vietnam Moratorium at the Faculty Senate meeting. March through Capen Hall Demonstrations against the presence of the military on campus - particularly the Air Force ROTC — have been conducted here for the past two Tuesdays and have been referred to as “Revolutionary Dance Class 101.” and for the second week in a row were forced to dismiss. Students demand immediate reforms in medical school The students regrouped outside the building and protested the recent letters sent from the Advocate’s office which will require at least 20 students to appear before the Student Judiciary for disrupting the ROTC classes last week. During both demonstrations, a number of administrators appeared with cameras to take pictures which apparently are being used to identify the protestors. Beginning in Haas Lounge, the participants convened this week for a ‘guerilla theater’ performance and then began their march around campus. Their first destination was Diefendorf Hall where the Faculty Senate was meeting to discuss the upcoming Vietnam Moratorium which they did not support last month. The group chanted “R-O-T-C, must leave U.B.” - no attempt was made to interrupt the session. capability for all things that divers can do - salvage mining operations, mining, anti-mining, surveillance, reconnaissance . . .and in assisting operations from the surface that we need for military installations under water.” by Jan Doane Spectrum Staff Writer The School of Medicine at the State University of Buffalo has been the recent target of protest against its admission policy and its contribution of $400,000 to Project Themis. Wednesday afternoon about ISO students marched through Capen Hall chanting “Open the doors or shut it down,” and demanded a meeting with LeRoy A. Pesch, Dean of the Medical School. Dr, Pesch was out of town and Edward J. Marine, associate dean, met with students in a lecture hall to hear their charges. Student groups such as the Black Student Union, the newly-formed organization for Afro-American Awareness and Students for Democratic Society were represented. These students demanded immediate reforms in Medical School policies. The students were especially concerned with the admission of more Black students to the Medical School, 'Symbolic protest The march ended at the Medical School where the students expressed their objection to using $400,000 from a medical endowment fund to support Project Themis, which is funded by the Department of Defense. They also voiced their opposition to “discriminatory admissions policies” of the Medical School. Two major chants were: “Black doctors for Black people,” and “Hip-hip-Hipocrates, up with service, down with fees.” The letter says these goals are contrary to the Hippocratic Oath, the Oath of Geneva and the Code of Ethics in Wartime of the World Medical Association, all of which oppose the use of medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity. “This letter is our symbolic protest\ said Carl Cohen, head of the Student Health Organization. Disrupt classes The demonstrators then moved across the ROTC drill field to Parker Engineering building where the Air Force ROTC classes were being conducted. After a period of sustained chanting the military training classes were disrupted, “We feel that the Medical School should take a non-military stance. The Department of Defense should do this research under their own auspices.” The letter asks that the $400,000 be diverted to “the immediate construction of a neighborhood health clinic in Buffalo’s inner city.” .Dr. Pesch said he thought there was a \basic misunderstanding in the letter.\ The building at the end of Capen is a building for research labs for the Department of Physiology,” he said. “They are not for the specific military objectives of the Defense Department. We are not bound to the Defense Department.” | VETERANS Get Your $ 22 Worth Can’t identify race' Dr. Marine said “our problem is that we cannot identify the race of the applicant by the rules of the State University system which does not allow pictures or questions about race to be included on application forms.” Dr. Marine admitted that there were, at present, no students on the admissions committee and only one Black oh the Board of Admissions. Keep avenues open \Our funds are not applied to support any military mission, but to support the Department of Physiology’s research,” Dr, Pesch continued. \The source of funds are not important. Support for research has always come from a mission-oriented, problem solving institution. When the funds for the research are put in the hands of the University, they result in the acquisition of knowledge,\ he explained. Dr. Pesch said it is the University’s responsibility to keep open all avenues leading to the accumulation of knowledge. “This knowledge is free to be published and therefore free to be used either for good or bad purposes,” he said. ’The responsibility of the University is to provide opportunity and not direct the end results of knowledge.\ “All 1 can promise is that we will work toward significant solutions to the problem of admissions,” he said. Room 260 Peter Nichols, Faculty of Biochemistry, pointed out that a crisis is usually needed to bring about action by the Medical School. “We were arguing these questions in March, in a more moderate atmosphere, and nothing was done. I think the problem is that the Medical School waits for a tense situation like this before something is done.\ NORTON HALL Themis controversy “We will not wait for a year for these changes,\ a student told Dr. Marine. \We will be back every week until our demands are met.” In answer to the letter's demand that community health centers be established. Dr, Pesch said “our role is not to service community health centers. Rather, it is to develop a specific manpower solution - train more doctors, researchers and teachers,\ The Medical School is also involved in a controversy over its recent contribution of $400,000 to Project Themis. Students at the rally Wednesday afternoon demanded that this money be given to set up community health centers. The Student Health Organization, in a letter addressed to Dr. Pesch, also protested the allocation to Project Themis. “The goals of Project Themis are contrary to all medical morality,” the letter says. The letter quotes the stated goals of Project Themis as research that “will give us an entirely new “The solution to community problems can come only through appropriate public policy and massive funding.\ he continued. \The University can be responsibly involved in legislative policy decision for-example, and as an advocate but not as a primary source of help in delivery of services,\ he said. UB VETS &SS&5&SS& Page three The Spectrum November 7. 1969
