lillili's ASSliSSlliMldti AWAliEliS ddlliliELL $450 COLLECTED DURGNG SUNDAY RALLY By NEIL FISCHER (Editors note: tine to the participants in the events described here- in who provided many or the [acts and most oi the en- wuragement needed to write the iollowing news analysis, which represents ten hours or writing and research) Over $450 in Contributions — sent to striking sanitation work< sis in Memphis, Tenn, as a memorial to Dr, Martin Luther Credit is - Kingrwas collected Sun- day when members oi the Gritt- nel Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Concerned Black Students (CBS), and the Stil- dent Government Association (SGA) staged an unsuccesslul morning appeal to local churches in the community and an impressive aliemoun rally on campus. More than sol) students, fac- ulty members, representatives at the administration, and mem- bers of the College community flocked to Barber Plaza at 1 pm. after posters publicizing the rally were put up in Cowles and Quad dining halls and around the campus. The purposes oi» the rally, the posters said, were four: “to support the black libera- tion struggle; to condemn the real murderers at Martin Lu- ther King; to expose the col- laboration or our ‘law and or- der' and white raClSm; to con- tinue the struggle by glvnig material support to the striking garbage w o r it e r s of Mem- phis. , . " iiastily organized late Sat- urday night, the rally was of» iicially sponsored by SGA pres- ident Tom Thomas (Gates soph- omore), CBS president Hubert Farbes (North Younker jun- ior), and the Grinnell SDS. Other major planners were Joe Berly (East Norris sopho- more), or $05, and Andy Loevvi (South Youllker ireshmau). TELEGRAMS 1'0 MEMPHIS By early Sunday morning the planners had composed two telegrams—one to the mayor of Memphis and one to the striking sanitation workers there. “We demand all national guard and other troops be re- moved irom the city," the planners wrote Memphis mayor Henry Loeb, Illt “We demand you meet the demands or the garbage workers; we demand RALL‘IH (Continued on Page 2) Student Newspaper of Grinnell College l ,4 mwmwmm ”Nd éi‘imiHbi once again the oldest: college 4, newspaper 3 west of the Mississippi oteoootooooeoo ‘r i YOU’D Do." Grinnell, Iowa. Friday, April |2, 171:8 Distributed by Sos‘zlngeltseimts SYNDICATE Etudenls Jubilant LBJ NON-GANDIDAGY ENDORSED WASHINGTON, April I2 (CPS) — Students around the country reacted with jubilation 10 President Johnson’s an< liDuncement that he would not seek another term as Presl< dent. But beneath the jubilation there was an undercurrent of suspicion oi Johnson’s motives, among politically aware stu- dents. A CPS survey of about 20 large campuses also showed a slight feeling oi sympathy tor the President and a good deal 0! contusion, especially in the .West. SPONTANEOUS jg; ._.. DEMONSTRATIONS ~ There were spontaneous dem< unstrations on several Cam- puses and in several large fillies. In Washington, about 150200 eople danced and sang in La- oyette Park, across the street from the White House About It) policemen patrolled in front 01 the White House and 1.11m persons were arrested for re- tusing to move on when told to. (Washington has strict laws against parading in lront oi the white l-louse without a permit.) In Boston about 3,000 people, most of tltem Boston Univer- sity and Massachusetts Insti- tute oi Technology students marched from Harvard Square to the steps of the Statehouse at about 2 am. Monday. They held a rally with speeches, chanting. and singing on the steps at the statehouse. In Philadelphia about 1,000 University DI Pennsylvania Stu- dents marched to Independence Hall singing “God Bless Amer- ica." THE WITCH IS DEAD In Chicago a couple of groups oi about 150 students roamed the streets. One group on the University at Chicago Campus sang “ding, dong, the witch is dead,” Al Yale University about 200 students gathered to sing the ”Star Spangled Banner" and then marched off to the home of Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, shouting “Coifin for president." Coiiin did not ap- pear to speak, however, and the students went away chant- in g, “McCarthy. McCarthy" LBJ— (Continued on Page 6) llllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll FLETCHER DEAD Dr, Harold A. Fletcher, so, chairman ot Grillliell's political science department, died April 5 at Palo Alto, Cant, atter an illness oi several months. Born at Baltimore. Md., on Jan, 24, 1918, Fletcher — a spe Ciallst in French politics — came to Grillnell in 1957. He held degrees trom Berkeley, Harvard, and the University at Paris. Seriously ill since mld~ December, Fletcher is survived by his wife, Martha, and two children, all of Grimell. COUNSELORS AID NARCS WASHINGTON, D.C., April 1 (CPS) — Five Federal Narcot- ics agents roused students out of bed at 5:30 a.m. in a mari- juana raid at American Uni< versity here Thursday. The agents said they arrested seven students, all allegedly dealers in marijuana, University oiiiClals gave var- lous other estimates of the number of arrests which ran as high as 17. The campus news- paper, the Eagle, said most campus sources put the num- ber at 13. The raid had full co-operation or University orticials. Gradu- ate student counselors who live in the dorms “were all in coals and ties," according to one student, who added that “they got all the dealers in the dorm." The raid involved three floors AAA AAAAA POLITICS AAA AND . . . Report on the sassinatinn; more.. XMAMAMA A {AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Feai'ures Index COLONEL LECGETT RETURNS— Tlie president was iii Pascagoula, Miss, at the time of Martin Luther King, Ir.'s death and some people at Gi-iilliell aren’t happy about it _ STORY ON Page 5; EDITO ON Page 2, single week as the Democratic and Republican Mock Conventions come to Gi'iillicil and other campuses . STORIES ON Pages 68. “THUS CONSCIENCE DOTI-I make Coll’m‘ds of us all.“ PI‘OECSSOT‘JOlin Ci'ossett (Classics) looks at conse} 9e; Hamlet, and draft resistance ‘ ARH Set on Fire This Morning; Havemnn Re- port Passed; Other Colleges React to Kings As- the 5&3’5 DADA Art; Jr B. Grimell Beaten . . . and much . inside the newest Scarlet 8: Black . . . ~>> VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVX No, 2| in one of American‘s three men’s dormitories. University President Hurst Anderson issued a statement, dated March 21, that the uni< versity believes “it to be our responsibility to co