{ title: 'The Spectrum (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1955-current, May 11, 1979, Page 31, Image 31', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about NYS Historic Newspapers - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/np00130006/1979-05-11/ed-1/seq-31/png/', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/np00130006/1979-05-11/ed-1/seq-31.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/np00130006/1979-05-11/ed-1/seq-31/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/np00130006/1979-05-11/ed-1/seq-31/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
Image provided by: University at Buffalo
1 i Ui Figs off campus! Editor s note Nothing d in The Spectrum on Fch he sigh ■med cops rushing thr h N r's Editor-in-Ch so th Linda liar, tied, rather bluntly ht It u When you see a cordon of campus cops charge mlo a crowded student union, stampede students through the building out the far exit, grabbing and beating select people as they g radicalized you r When you look out the window and tor as far as you can see in both directions caravans of patrol cars, TPU cars, and K-9 corps trucks are cruising through campus you're radicalized. When you can t see the police, but you can hear the screams and you look out the window again, only this time some guy carrying his books is having his head beat in against the guardrail because he couldn’t decide which way to turn fast enough you’re radicalized. When you watch the cops charge into the crowd chasing down single students on the lawn in front of the small dorms and you see your friends being helped inside because they can’t see or walk anymore and you ask the question ‘Who’ and you ask ‘Why’ and all they can tell you is lies - you’re radicalized. The campus has been radicalized - and that can’t be put into Committee! The media is terming it everything from a race riot (the confrontation was not a result of the demands of the black athletes) to the usual ‘rampage of berserk Communist agitators.’ A police riot is what it was, and if you don’t believe that - look at the pictures, or ask the dormitory girls who got dragged to the ground by their hair, or Movement Attorney Willard Myers who was busted outside of Norton for “inciting a riot” (telling people to walk and stay calm). And, as usual, no one last night was willing to admit calling the pigs on campus. Trying to get an answer out of the administration on that question is like playing “Who’s on first?” - people were beaten, people were busted and people’s tempers are pretty high. They should stay that way. There is no reason why the Tatical Patrol Unit had to be called in Tuesday night to combat a peaceful sit-in at the Stony Brook basketball game in Clark Gym. But there they were, and they didn’t leave happy. “You might have won this time, but wait till next time,” one cop was heard saVing. Next time came the next night and the cops didn’t make the trip in vain Wednesday. They got to bust their heads. Dr. Regan’s “Force as the First Resort” policy has backfired in his face - and quite possibly may be the spark which will ignite a campus that was already flammable. The pigs have-no place on campus. The pigs must be taken off campus and not brought back again - not by Regan, not by any of his Hayes Hall staff and not by the club-happy campus cops. And Dr. Regan has no place heading this University if he can’t exert control over who hits the hotline to Precinct 16. The situation Tuesday night was Only total administrative irresponsibility could have left the handling of Wednesday’s development to individuals apparently so low or so hidden in the bureaucratic heirarchy that no one knew their name Wednesday night. Either that, or the Administration lied. Thursday morning Edward Doty, Vice-President for Operations and Systems, finally owned up to calling the police. He cited the rock-throwing at Hayes Hall and the request of campus police for outside assistance as his reasons. Who gave Doty that order and who first ordered the campus police into Norton Hall to vacate the building? Who outfitted them in riot gear? And who in the Administration reneged on their promise to the boycotting black players that the Albany-Bulfalo game would be indefinitely postponed? We’re past the questions. We want the answers. No more lies! No more bullshit! Pigs off campus now — and that includes the pigs in Hayes Hall who make the phone calls and then sit back and let their liberal hearts bleed over the casualties. Pleading no control over police conduct is no excuse — they shouldn’t have been here in the first place! The Spectrum Vol, 29, No. 90 Friday, 11 May 1979 This edition'! Editors: Jay Roam, Robert Basil, Ron Chapman, Harvey Shapiro Photography Editor: Tom Buchanan Art Director: Rebecca Bernstein Business Manager; Bill Finkelstein •. Special thanks to past Writers, editors 4nd photographers who, unknowingly, contributed to this special edition. 77m Sptctrum offices ere I oca tad in 355 Squirt Hall, Stata University of New York at Buffalo, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, Naw York -14214. Telephohe: (716) 831-5456, editorial; (716) 831-5410, business. Copyright 1979 Buffalo, N.Y. The Spectrum Student Periodical, Inc. Editorial policy itdetermined fay the Editor-in-Chief. Republication of any matter herein without the expreea content of the Editor-in-Chief it nrictiy forbiddah.
