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1970-12-11 Des Moines Register Article: ""U of I Probe Of Violations At Protest""

DMR
12/11/70

U of I Probe 
Of Violations
At Protest
By Larry Eckholt
(Register Staff Writer)
IOWA CITY, IA.—University of Iowa officials have begun a full-scale investigation to determine if Wednesday's sit-in at the U of I placement office constituted a violation of student conduct rules.
More than 150 antiwar demonstrators blocked the entrance to the placement office — disrupting job interview procedures for an hour — in protest of the scheduled visit of a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) recruiter here Wednsday.
Robert Engel, assistant to U of I President Willard Boyd, said Thursday: "We are now in the information and evidence gathering process to determine if the sit-in was disruptive."
Engel said the university will issue a report "hopefully within a couple of days."
On the surface, Wednesday's sit-in appears to have violated at least one section of the newly adopted Uniform Rules of Personal Conduct issued by the State Board of Regents last summer.
The protesters blocked the placement office door and refused to allow anyone — including interviewers for Brenton Banks and for the Wisconsin Department of Social Services — to get to the door. The placement office did not open for afternoon interviews until 2
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p.m., an hour later than normal.
However, the fact that placement office personnel did not unlock the door until the demonstrators cleared the area raises a technical question for university officials: Did the sit-in disrupt the placement office or did the office voluntarily close down because of the demonstration?
In answer to that question, Engel said one of the facts to be determined by the University is, "Why was the door not unlocked?"
The sit-in was sponsored by the U of I chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which currently is serving a year of disciplinary probation for its participation in previous incidents on campus.
Wednesday's demonstration ended when Engel announced that the DIA recruiter, Robert Kravetz of Washington, D.C., decided not to hold interviews with seven U of I students.
Engel said Thursday that Kravetz decided to cancel his appointments without consultation with university officials.
Engel said Kravetz was offered an opportunity to hold interviews at another lcoation, but Kravetz refused and left the campus.

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DMR 12/11/70 U of I Probe Of Violations At Protest By Larry Eckholt (Register Staff Writer) IOWA CITY, IA.—University of Iowa officials have begun a full-scale investigation to determine if Wednesday's sit-in at the U of I placement office constituted a violation of student conduct rules. More than 150 antiwar demonstrators blocked the entrance to the placement office — disrupting job interview procedures for an hour — in protest of the scheduled visit of a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) recruiter here Wednsday. Robert Engel, assistant to U of I President Willard Boyd, said Thursday: "We are now in the information and evidence gathering process to determine if the sit-in was disruptive." Engel said the university will issue a report "hopefully within a couple of days." On the surface, Wednesday's sit-in appears to have violated at least one section of the newly adopted Uniform Rules of Personal Conduct issued by the State Board of Regents last summer. The protesters blocked the placement office door and refused to allow anyone — including interviewers for Brenton Banks and for the Wisconsin Department of Social Services — to get to the door. The placement office did not open for afternoon interviews until 2 PROTEST— Please turn to Page Three Declined Interviews Elsewhere PROTEST--- Continued from Page One p.m., an hour later than normal. However, the fact that placement office personnel did not unlock the door until the demonstrators cleared the area raises a technical question for university officials: Did the sit-in disrupt the placement office or did the office voluntarily close down because of the demonstration? In answer to that question, Engel said one of the facts to be determined by the University is, "Why was the door not unlocked?" The sit-in was sponsored by the U of I chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which currently is serving a year of disciplinary probation for its participation in previous incidents on campus. Wednesday's demonstration ended when Engel announced that the DIA recruiter, Robert Kravetz of Washington, D.C., decided not to hold interviews with seven U of I students. Engel said Thursday that Kravetz decided to cancel his appointments without consultation with university officials. Engel said Kravetz was offered an opportunity to hold interviews at another lcoation, but Kravetz refused and left the campus.