From a special correspondent U.S. STUDENTS FACE ""CRACKDOWN"

From a special correspondent The U.S. News and World Report, which often reflects the opinions of the most militarist wing of the U.S. ruling class, predicts that a "crackdown" on students who demonstrate is on the way, In its January lst issue in an article entitled "Crackdown starts on Student Riots" it notes that: "The biggest revolt of students in the history of American college life is now sweeping eross the nation's campuses..." "For a close look at what is happening staff members of U.S. News and World Report went to the scene of action - the campuses of some of the largest universities in the U.S." =e might think that this is the report of a new battlefront in the Far st! "We're in real trouble", the journal reported a veteran professor at a major Midwestern school as saying. "We've never had this kind of violent, totalitarian" (sic) "assault to deal with before, and we're not set up to handle it." Apparently the use of napalm would be frowned upon. The journal continues: "In the past, college administrators and law-enforcement officials have been inclined to treat campus rioting with tolerance, But now there are increasing signs that a crackdown has started. Among them: - More students are being expelled for disorderly conduct. Slack rules on campuses are being tightened, - On the theory that trouble comes from outside, legislatures have berun to cut down on the number of out-of-state stuinets permitted to enter their public universities, - Pgrents and influential alumni are calling for a showdown not only with students, but with faculty members who sometimes lead marches and sit-ins." However, the journal says: "At the universities, however, it is predicted that demonstrations by student activists will continue and grow larger until the Vietnam war is ended." A surprisingly frank admission. Explaining what the demonstrations are about the journal states: "What students are demanding, basically, is an end to the draft, termination of the war in Vietnam, and more 'student power.' Student power,to them, means the right not only to make their own rules for life on the campuses, but to take over the actual running of universities..." The college authorities interviewed by the U.S. News and World Report reporters had a fixation about "outsiders", According to them: "Activists appear to get some central direction from radical student organisations, And a striking feature of the current scene is the way a small band of agitators bounce from Berkeley to Madison to Harvard to stir up trouble." It seems to me that this story has a familiar ring thy must have been reading Ray Gunter's speeches, "Its the intruder we're mostly concerned with - the outside students and dropouts," says John T. Bonner, Jr., executive dean for student relations at Ohio State University, This statement sums up his attitute, Among the crackdown measures the journal quotes with approval are: "eeethe board of agents of state universities in Wisconsin has just adopted a new code of conduct covering unlawful assembly and off-campus trouble-making. The code asserts the right of universities to discipline students for misconduct no matter where it takes place...,.In California, the board of trustees...has directed that college police forces be beefed up and has instructed college authorities to call for police help..."