Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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In the midst of the Tet Offensive Nixon declares candidacy

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$ ?iVi Back ,n NU ' s Side By STEVE THORP Thorn magazine reap- peared on campus during Orientation Week with an is- sue geared to the tender minds of innocent fresh- men. Upperclassmen re- member Thorn from last year as the magazine with something for everyone. POINTED MKSSACE Its radical opinions at- tracted dissenters, its humor titillated the anthropoids on campus, and its obscenities prompted the Student Council to ban its sale and Dean MacDonald to haul those who had sold Thorn before the Rules and Disci- pline committee. Thorn ' s message was, as usual, pointed, warning freshmen of the evils of ROTC on the very day of the scheduled ROTC orient- ation program. Other articles deplored the insens- itivity of the fraternity sys- tem and the woeful inade- quacy of the NU library. For example, the largest private university in the U.S. has only 200.000 vol- umes, of which only 140,000 are books, the rest being periodicals, many of which do not go back beyond a few years. Finishing the collection of reprints and new articles was a long article on the re- cent student demonstrations in France and the relevance of that revolutionary experi- ence to American students The entire issue came to eight pages and sold for the traditional price of one nickel. MORI TO COM! Will there he future Thorns? Definitely, says Jack Fahey (69ED) a mem- ber of Thorn ' s editorial staff. Several people are writing for Thorn now and we have an article on po- litical issues lined up from a professor at Brandeis. What we need is art work and lots of it. Several people have already men- tioned to me their interest in drawing for Thorn. The latest issue of Thorn was judicious in its use of obscenities, limiting itself to a single four-letter word in the middle of an imaginary dialogue between a depart- ing senior and an entering freshman, reprinted from an earlier issue. Speculation is that the magazine will con- tinue to lend itself to criti- cism of university inequi- ties, for freshman enlighten FUTURI CONNtOWTATlOm Whether Thorn will live to publish again is now ap- parently the University ' s business. It is certainly not in the Thom tradition to avoid a confrontation, so upperclassmen can expect, for a while, to see another issue of the most challeng- ing student opinion sheet mi campus. Choice 68 Student Presidential Elections Sponsored by Time Magazine Tin Maga will give stu- dents a chance t decide today who they would like to be the next President. Northeastern is the first university in the nation to vote. Choice ' 6S has a ballot listing 14 candidates of four parties. CANDIDATES The candidates, in order of appearance are: Fred Halstead, Socialist Worker; Mark 0. Hat- field, Rep.; Lyndon B. Johnson, Dem.; Hobert F. Kennedy, Dem.; Martin L. King, Ind.; John V. Lindsay, Rep.; Eugene J. Mc- Carthy, Dem.; Richard M. Nixon, Rep.; Charles H. Percy, Rep.; Ronald ft . Reagan, Rep.; Nelson A. Rockefeller, Rep.; George ft ' . Ilomney, Rep.; Harold K.Stassen, allace, opendence. Aside from a Presidential election, mere will be two ques- tions on the I nited States ' policy in Vietnam and another question on the urban crisis. VIETNAM The first Vietnam question asks if the student favors im- mediate withdrawal, phased re- duction, maintaining the current level of military activity or an all out effort. It then asks for a North Viet- nam bombing policy. On the urban crisis, it asks which of the following should re- ceive top priority; education, job training, housing, income sub- sidy or riot control and law en- forcement. YR ' S SPUT The Young Republican Club la divided as to whom it supports in the coming election. John Kelley, publicity direc- tor, said the club is not endors- ing any candidates because of m split. A straw vote Indicated Nixon received 32 per cent of the YR ' s vote while Rockefeller was sec- ond with 28 per cent. Romney, with 16 per cent, and Percy, with 10 per cent fol- lowed. John A. Volpe received four per cent of the vote. The Young Democrats have not stated their position. The stu- dents for a l emocratic Society and the Afro-American Society have also remained silent. Northeastern NEWS, February 2, 1968 Page Three Thorn Sellers Stuck by Suspension By MIKE DORFSMAN Joe Eck (70LA) and one otheT student were suspended for six months beginning in March by the Regulations and Discipline Committee. The official charges sent to the students read: The University community expects each student to respect the rights and privileges •of others and to adhere to ac- ceptable standards of personal conduct. Students should exercise their freedom with maturity and responsibility. Students are ex- pected to obey the regulations of the University; to follow the in- structions of and pay due respect to University officials. The charges were made after the first issue of Thorn was sold on campus. Its front page edi- torial told the council what it could do in earthy language. Four other students were placed on disciplinary probation, and one received a warning. SIT-IN The two suspended students had been on disciplinary probation for their roles in the Navy recruit- ment sit-in last spring. They were, however, off probation since their return to school. During the R D committee meeting excerpts of the editorial were read by Dean Gilbert G. MacDonald. No mention was made in the officaial charges of obscen- ity. They were before the com- mittee for selling the offending magazine on campus. The students immediately filed for an appeal, but as yet, no date has been set. ' PETITION A petition is currently being circulated in the commons con- course saying the charges were vague and calling for the board of appeals to reverse the disci- plinary committee ' s decision. The incident began when stu- dent ID ' s were picked up by Dean MacDonald the morning the first issue was on sale. The sellers ' ID ' s were returned the next day and the official charges followed a week later. The discipline committee meet- ting was described as formal by a member of the committee. Dean Crhistopher F. Kennedy, chairman of the committee said: The details are always confi- dential. It ' s all right for the stu- dents to give out information, i f they want. He added that it was the first time a court stenographer was present to provide a complete transcript. The student council pased a mo- tion written by Vin McCleUan, Div. A president, which resolved that the council should focus at- tention upon the lack of standards available for determining a viola- tion of this type of vague regula- tion. DRAFT Eck said he was informed by Dean Kennedy of the suspension and that his draft board would be notified. He also said the Thom editorial was an answer to the News head- line that read the. council banned Horn. Eck called the 1t ?rft-saie a test because they wanfeff lo ' l foree ' the issue! After the sale; the 1 aoirtun- istration told the students that the council could only recommend and its decisions were not bind- ing.