Campus Communique

Though Earth Day calmed and united most U.S. campuses last week, a few plunged into more trouble than ever. Items:

P: At Pennsylvania State University, President Eric A. Walker and his wife were driven from their home by rock-throwing demonstrators while small fires forced more than a thousand students out of their dormitories. The trouble followed a rally protesting Penn State's refusal to grant amnesty to 24 students arrested while occupying the school's main building in defiance of an injunction prepared for an even earlier sit-in. Penn State confronts almost every known student protest issue--more black students, the war, ROTC, Government research. "I was on the phone when I heard the sound of shattering glass," said President Walker. "Something hit the grandfather clock and it started rocking and ringing. I thought it was a bomb."

P: At Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, students were still protesting the use of dogs and tear gas and the arrest of 170 anti-ROTC demonstrators the week before. Last week the protesters used a new tactic. By flushing toilets and turning on showers and faucets at the same time, they ran off 5,000,000 gallons of water and temporarily deprived the whole town (7,500 residents and 11,500 students) of its water supply.

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