George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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around 3:10 a.m , to tell them that if they did not leave the building within 15 minutes, the University would seek a ten day temporary restraining order. The building was emptied two minutes before the deadline. There had been rumors earlier in the evening, circulated by, among others, Dean of Men Paul Sherburne and Assistant Dean of Men David Speck, that the University had obtained, or was attempting to obtain, a restraining order, but the rumors were denied by Smith when he first addressed the occupiers around midnight. The restraining order was the same weapon used by the American University administration to end a building takeover at that school last month, A crowd of about 1000 students, mostly hostile to the occupiers, milled around the building until after midnight. The crowd was so hostile, in fact, that when Smith arrived for his first vis it, he found it necessary to have David Dolgen recruit a group of students to act as marshals to prevent people from attempting to enter the building with the intent of recapturing it. While those inside the building were “talking and playing mah-jongg,” according to SDS leader Nick Greer, Smith was meeting in Rice Hall with Assistant Vice President and Treasurer H. John Cantini, University Senate Executive Committee Chairman Reuben Wood, other administrators, and a group of students which included Henry Ziegler, Candy Erickson, David Dolgen, Mike Bienstock and others. Hatchet of April 21,1 969 JST£ v To US ' (

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The day after the takeover two emergency meetings were held in Lisner Auditorium. The faculty met first and overwhelmingly approved the administration ' s handling of the crisis. When their dosed meeting was over, the students poured in and had a spirited debate. The main piece of business at the one and a half hour faculty debate was the wording of a resolution regarding requests for police on campus. After rejecting a more negatively-phrased proposal, the faculty finally agreed on one which urged the University president to call upon civil authorities “only as a last resort.” The student debate began outside, as an emotional crowd gathered to attempt entry to the faculty meeting. Senior Bill Hobbs turned the gathering into an open forum after all attempts at entrance proved futile. Nick Greer, speaking outside, said that “We will no longer let the University or any other organization in society be engaged in research detrimental to the people of the world. Inside, freshman Jody Gorran stunned the crowd by announcing that he had been an FBI and Metropolitan Police Department spy within SDS for almost four months. Now, he said, he believed in what SDS was doing and could no longer work for the authorities, “I don ' t care what the police do to me,” he said. Gorran, a 19-year-old poll sci major, explained later that he offered his services to the FBI if they would “help him make some connections in Washington” that would further his planned career in government. Almost every CW figure in town came to the mass student meeting the day after Maury Hall. Standing are (left to right) David Nadler, non-student Robert Forenz, SDS Chairman Nick Greer. Bill Hobbs, Vice President William Smith and Neii Port now Kneeling are SDS members Bob Fine (left) and David Camp (right). The man in the center is unidentified