KIN GS.TON (CUP) — Approximately 50 stud- ents, chanting “power to the people”, broke up a Special‘meetmg‘of theQueen’s University senate Wednesday (March 11)_. The disruptiOn forced the body to pestpone retaliation against doctoral studi- ent Charles Edwards“ and two others who last De camber charged a chemical engineering professor With political blackmail. ‘ ,

Wednesday’s senate meeting was a continua: tion of a senate meeting held February 25, Where the senate accepted the report of a special commit tee that investigated charges made by Edwards and] the time other students: Tom Good and Glen Mac- donel . ’~- v ‘ ‘ _

The investigation committee fou‘nd chemical en- gineering professor Henry Becker “utterly inno- cent” of charges. that he attempted to force Ed- wards out of his doctoral program because of Ed- wards", left-wing political activities.

At the February 25 meeting, the senate forcibly ejected Terry O’Hara, Edwards? representative on the investigating committee, after he demanded that Edwards be present during the presentation of the committee report.

' Edwards and other members of the leftwing Free Socialist Movement, which conducted his die- fence, have since denounced the report as a “white- wa ” of the incident.

At the Wednesday meeting, David Slater, dean of graduate studies and research, introduced a three— point mot-ion calling for support of the investigation committee repent, a “request that Mr. Edward r be taken from the registration of Queen’s,” and a sug- gestion to censure Good and Macdonell for their part in bringing forward accusations against Beck- er.

When the senate over-ruled an attempt to dis— allow Sl‘ater’s motion on the grounds it was “out of order at this time,” 10 students rose from their seats in the senate spectators. gallery, chanting, “This is out of order ‘. . . this senate is acting out of order.”

Other members of the Free Socialist Movement, who had been picketing the meeting, pushed through the doors of the senate chambers, and eventually 50 students blocked the entrance to, the chamber.

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Senate chairman John Deutsch adjourned the meeting and called another for next week. The next meeting will be closed- to the public.

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gauntlet of protestors, who raised their arms in Nazi Black Power salutes, chanting “Seig Hell,” and “Power to the people.”

Demonstrators then launched their own debate over the move to expel Edwards from Queen’s, con- tinuing their attack on the investigation commit- tee’s report and terming the senate’s action a con- tinuation of political repression on the Queen’s campus.

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