Books Thrown, Files Vandalized In U Libraries

About 100 biack youths committed varying degrees of vandalism yesterday afternoon in the University's Undergraduate Library, Engineering Transportation Library, Law Library, General Library and Angell Hall. Thousands of books were pulled from s h e 1 v e s and thrown, with bindings being torn from some, and a few card catalogues were spilled. The worst damage was in the Undergraduate Library, which was similarly vandalized by about 30 black youths Thursday night. In Angell Hall, a cigarette and a candy vending machine, and a wall clock, were smashed. Frederick H. Wagman, director of the U-M library system, said after a quick inspection tour: "Hundreds of hours of manpower will be needed to put this back in order. Books being returned can't be discharged again until then. It means literally that the collection of the library system, on several floors, is lost to all the students temporarily. "Offhand, I can't think of any way we can prevent this . . . We can't close the libraries. It's time to study for midterms. Other students want to use the libraries." A few white students still in the Undergraduate Library after the hit-and-run raid offered to help the staff clean up. Wagman said "I don't know what the punishment is to fit this crime," but declared he hopes action will be taken against the vandals. Associate Library Director Rolland C. Stewart suggested state criminal law as the appropriate basis for action. At the request of U-M officials, city pólice maintained closer than usual surveillance over the libraries last night. Yesterday's vandalism took place immediately after about 225 black students and a few non-students crowded into the U-M Board of Regents' ing, where they tried unsuccessfully to obtain approval from regents for several demands, including waiver of tuition for minority group students, and a demand to enroll 450 black freshman, 150 black transfer students, and 300 black gradúate students next fall, in addition to approximately 1,100 blacks now enrolled. Also discussed and rejected was a special meeting of the regents on March 6 for action on the tuition waiver demand, which proponents said would cost the U-M nothing. Regents declined to go beyond a resolution they approved Thursday, commiting President Robben W. Fleming to prepare a proposal for consideration at their March 19-20 meeting for methods of raising roughly $8 million for a fiveyear program, starting next fall to meet all demands received recently from black U-M students. Fleming and the regents said any resolutions they might a p p r o v e under yesterday's pressure would be meaningless because money has not been obtained to back them up. Fleming added mat a month js needed to cunsult with state legislators to seek waiver of a prohibition of tuition waivers in the 1969-70 appropriation law. He said he agrees with black student leaders that the act's provisión is unconstitutional, but emphasized that action yesterday on a tuition waiver might set off legal and political battles during which funds now available to the U-M could be cut off. Fleming had noted on Thursday that the U-M recently went through athree-year moratorium without construction funds from the state, because of a similar legal battle. When it became evident the regents would not approve any of the resolutions demanded by black students yesterday, a black student whose identity ís k n o w n read a statement mimeographed and distributed on campus before yesterday's confrontation occured. It says: "The regents must vote positively on the tuition waiver proposal today, thereby underlining their concern for our people. If they do not do so we shall have to interpret it as a statement that the University as a whole has no respect for our people. Therefore we shall be bound to have no respect for this institution." The crowd of black students then filed out, and the ism at the libraries and Angelí Hal! took place. Next, the regents, who rarely include audience participation time in their business meetings, heard a five-minute statement from Larry F. Clark, as unsuccessful candidate in last Monday's City Council primary election. Clark said many Ann Arhor residents believe the U-M should pay for pólice overtimp c o s t s and property destruction related to student demonstrations. Fleming replied that Clark's estímate of $3,000 in damage costs to Fleming's office this week is tooi high. Eegents issued a statement urging the new University Council to write a rule concerning violence. Yesterday afternoon, U - M spokesmen confirmed that "a thin piece of lead approximately the size of a quarter," a size that could be produced by an impacted .32 or .38 caliber bullet, was found by a maintenance man Thursday in a basement storage room of Fleming's home on the campus. An apparent bullet hole was discovered in a window of the room, facing west, and there is a "small depression" in a wall opposite the window. The piece of lead is being examined in the State Pólice Crime Laboratory. This morning, Mrs. Fleming said there is "nothing whatsoever" in a persistent rumor that the Flemings may move out of their official residence on S. University Avé. for security resons. N o s u c h suggestion has been made by pólice agencies and the Flemings "haven't discussed it," Mrs. Fleming added. U-M spokesmen state thcy are certain the apparent bullet hole was not in the basement window prior to Wednesday night's mass campus-to-downtown march by about 2,000 students. In another development apparently related to that march, Ann Arbör Fire Chief Arthur L. Stauch and Assistant I Chief Fred Schmid said 1 day a fire in a boarded-up I frame house at 1339 Washtenaw Wednesday night was set by I arsonists who forced plywood from a door and ignited a pile of paper. The fire was discovered about an hour after the marchers scattered from a confrontation with pólice at City Hall. It reached the second floor before being extinguished by city firemen. All of the approximately 30 persons arrested Wednesday have been released on bond and are awaiting court examinations. Pólice Chief Walter E. Krasny, while hoping that the second night without major street violence means the worst is over, is maintaining extraordinary security measuers in the City Hall area. Since y ester day, pólice guards have been stationed in and around the building, including observers in cars with engines running. Visitors to the building have been checked to determine their business, and weapons stocked for emergency conditions were issued. Extra shifts of patrolmen, mostly working overtime, came and went periodically. Intelligence reports on various activities in the city and certain other areas are being provided by several pólice agencies.