Students, Sponberg Meeting At Emu

Y'PSILANTI - Possible greater emphasis on black studies programs was up for discussion today at Eastern Michigan University following a thwarted attempt to seize the school's administraron building. EMU President Harold Sponberg agreed to meet with students and university officials to discuss student demands "consistent with the aims and goals of the university." About 50 pickets with signs marched in front of Pierce Hall as students awaited the meeting with Sponberg in his office this morning. Spokesmen for EMU said that class attendance was normal today, although leaflets passed out yesterday said a special session of the EMU Student Senate called for a boycott of classes. The leaflet said the student group acted in response to the signing of complaints against the 13 arrested during yesterday's demonstration. The mimeographed leaflet said the senate wished the boycott to remain strictly "nonvioleni" and the aim of the senate was not tu physically stop the students from entering classes. "The Senate feels negotiations between black students and the administration cannot be mcaningful until the charges are dropped," ït said. A fluid group of student demonstrators left Pierce Hall Thursday afternoon after their leaders held a three-hour meeting with Sponberg. The move ended a day of confrontations that began with an attempted occupation of the building. Members of the Black Student Union and other supporters tried to chain themselves in the building early Thursday but were thwarted by campus, city, county and State Pólice. The students then attempted a confrontation on Sponberg's front lawn while about 50 policemen guarded the president's house. A Negro was arrested there on charges of trying to incite a r.iot. Sponberg agreed to meet with the students and the free-form demonstration moved back into the first floor of the administration building, where tors and employés wandered back and I forth the rest of the day. There was some scuffling early in the day but vvandering students did little more than make speeches and sit as the I afternoon drew on. The 12 students arrested at Pierce Hall were arraigned before Ypsilanti District Court Judge Edward Deake on charges of conspiracy to cause a disturbance. All pleaded innocent and were released on $500 bond pending court examination Maren 26. Those arraigned before Judge Deake included 10 Eastern Michigan University students and two non-students. The students included Ronald Roberts, 22, 1932 Washtenaw Ave.; Rogers A. Campbell, 21, of Detroit; Roger Peterson, 20, of Best Hall; Walter L. Long Jr., 18, of Detroit; Kurt C. Hill, 18, of Detroit; Douglas Sanders, 19, of Detroit; Laras E. Eason, 19, of Pontiac; William A. Thigpen, 20, of Detroit; Walter C. Terry, 20, of Pontiac; and Jerold W. Buben-I hofer, 28, of Ypsilanti. The non-students were Reche DavisJ 18, of Benton Harbor, and James C. Bur-I ney, 25, of Highland, Mich. EMU, which has had numerous demon-I strations but no outright confrontationsl in the past, has an enrollment of morel than 17,000 students, about 700 of them Negro. The black students, joined by a smaller number of white students, listed 11 demands, including a black studies department and a co-op dormitory for black students. They also demanded the university hire a vice president of minority affairs and that he be a Negro. o o As sheriff s deputies began moving the crowd back yesterday at EMU, Deputy Eugene Alli got ahead of the deputy line and then was suddenly shoved backward - into one of the department's pólice dogs. The husky Germán Shepherd did what comes naturally. He bit. Deputy Alli's injury was minor.