Suit Seeks Schools' Use Of Guards

A láwsuit ëeeking the use of security guards in all Ann Arbor junior and senior high schools to halt the "physical assaults, extortion, robberies, drug use and pornographic and subversive literature" it says are prevalent in the schools was filed yesterday in Washtenaw Circuit Court. The suit, filed by Larry Clark of 906 Fifth St., is a class petition, meaning it was filed on behalf of all parents of students in the Ann Arbor Public School System. It was filed against the school system and Supt. W. Scott Westerman Jr. Judge William P. Ager Jr. has set up a show cause hearing for May 18. The security guards are needed to patrol the schools and and school grounds to protect children "from attacks of physical violence, extortion, intimidation, drug use and exposure to pornographic and subversive literature and films supplied by I subversive and undesirable 1 ganizations in the community," I the suit says. It did not 1 ate. It did, hüwever, specifically point to an incident which allegedly occured May 1 at Slauson Junior High School involving an "unprovoked attack." The incident began with a "verbal attack in the first hour typing class and was' continued in a physical education class with physical abuse," the siut said. Later there was another physical attack on the same student in the outer office of the school principal, the suit claims. The suit further charges that this is "typical" of many reported and unreported incidents which occiir in the schools. It has gone so far that such acts "have intimidated students to the point that they are fearful of using toilet facilities and fearful of reporting and identifying their assailants for fear of other reprisals," the petition claims. Clark also saylHstudënTsar? often accosted on school property with threats of physical harm if money is not forthcoming. He also says "on informa tion and belief" marijuana and other drugs are sold to students on school property "without any attempt by school authorities to halt such sales." The suit also says films have been shown to students by subversive and undesirable groups without efforts by school authorities to halt such practices.