Protest Is Held By Pioneer Blacks

About 35 to 4Qjtlack students at Pioneer High School left the s c h o o 1 ' s auditorium shortly before noon today where they had been holding -what was termed an "unauthorized assembly" for sevefal hours. The students were pro testing what they said was bad faith oni the part of school authorities in the appointment of black counselors and teachers to Pio-i neer faculty positions. Principal Theodore Rokicki three times this morning entered the auditorium where the blacks were gathered to ask them to leave, warning them 1 1 h a t those missing classes I would b e given unexcused absences. At 11:30 a.m. Rokicki read to the students the state "trespass" law and told them that unless they vacated the auditorium by 11:50 p.m. Ann Arbor pólice would make arrests. Parents of the students involved were notified of the incident and were asked to come to the school. The students left the auditorium but were in hallways outside at noon today. Six Ann Arbor policemen were in the school much of the morning but made no arrests.