Campus Communique: Quiet-- So Far

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CAMPUS COMMUNIQUÉ

Which way campus protest? As a guide to this year's tumult—or peace —TIME herewith presents the first in a series of campus communiques. Last week, on most of the nation's 2,500 campuses, the big news was no news. But as always, there were exceptions of varying gravity:

>The University of Michigan, where 107 demonstrators were arrested during a sit-in protest against the regents' reluctance to set up a student-controlled campus bookstore. Earlier, 50 demonstrators opposed to ROTC temporarily occupied another building; university officials and Ann Arbor police were studying video tapes of that demonstration, and busts were likely. There were threats of a student strike.

> Harvard University, where a group of 15 to 20 youths staged a lightning raid on the Center for International Affairs, evicting teachers and students, smashing windows and painting slogans, before running off, chanting: "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, the N.L.F. is bound to win." Best guess is that the raiders were student members of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, the extremely militant Mark Rudd faction of S.D.S., on a tactical training exercise.

>The University of Houston, where students attacked the school's regents for naming the new sports center after Judge Roy M. Hofheinz, father of the Astrodome, who contributed $1,500,000 toward the cost of the center. Though angry at not having been consulted, the students finally gave in.

In short, the vast majority of campuses are quiet—so far. But for the chronic trouble spots (roughly 25 schools), the new year has just begun.