The Stetson Reporter

, ww^ww w?-p«wipWKpf:'iW:sWPp':''Ip« MS 3$ watch busted Sebastian concert By DAVE JOHDAN Associate Sitter Ed, Mete — Tie fallowing Is 'a ebroHologieal developaieBt of eveste seen by Steteen staieats, which led to Use clearing af the Orlando Sports Stadium. It Is based oh accounts given to the writer by Jeff Been, George Hancock, Betoerf ErwiB, Mark Befe, and what he §aw personally. When people catered the stadium at about %M pjtn. there were thousands of people ■ railing around the outside of the stadium, many begging money to buy tickets. Florida Highway Patrol officers were present, carefully inspecting the pwpfe going to for tlFUgS. At about 9:80 pan. trouble started warn youths in the parking lot in front of the entrance began throwing rocks at the door where police were standing. Polce began throwing 'the rocks and bottles back. With some of the bottles hitting their cars,' the police moved than from to front of the entrance to a field beside fie stadium. Some" rocks and bottles were thrown at the cars in their new parking places. Inside a fenced-in area connected to the stadium, youths who had come from inside . the stadium also began yelling at me cops. - One youth on the inside began Jumping on the fence to break it down in order, according to, one witness, "to let our brothers and sisters in." More joked him until- about 26 were breaking down the fence. After they broke trough the first one, they continued onto the second one. When both fences were broken down, youths began rannijig through'into fie area, tat most did not then go into the concert. They stayed with the crowd hassling the'police. Police ties rushed the kids, backing them up to fee fence near the stage end. Inside the stadium, kids who saw what 'The bastards were really. . gonna hit us' By DA¥E JOEDAN Associate Edit©? Over thirty Stetson students were among ■ the 4,966 fans cleared out of Orlando' Sports Stadium last Friday by police using pepper gas. John Sebastian was staging, "I Had A Dream," at the time. The trouble began about 9:00 pan. as youths began throwing rocks and bottles at the main exit of the stadium where the police were standing. In their efforts to close the stadium, the police teargassed some Stetson students, although others escaped before the gas reached them. Those sitting on the floor in the center of the stadium followed Sebastian's advice to remain seated until the tear gas began reaching them. Other Stetson students left as-soon as they saw the first white cloud of tear gas come drifting is from the rear bleachers. Cathy ffill, who was sitting in the bleachers, said "I fust got so scared I could have died." ; Jeff Pattern to3d how he felt after leaving the stadium, "I looked in their eyes and those bastards were really going to hit m — I was really scared they were going to beat the shit out of us." No Stetson students were beaten, but they reported incidents of others youths who were attacked for what to them, appeared to be no reason. ; Patton said that one youth he saw being chased he later saw with his glasses all smashed. George Hancock, the last ot fee Stepson Continued en Pa§e 3 . was going on outside began forming a crowd around the lower part of the bleachers, yelling and throwing things at the police. The ■police would occasionally rush toward the bleachers, and the kids would run down to the main floor of the stadium and then reassemble when the police went back to their positions. The Highway patrol called for riot equipment and help from local police forces. When the equipment arrived, the police begaa tear-gassing the youths standing around the fence with two pepper fogging machines. The youths ran inside. The noise caused by the tear-gassing of the youths brought the crowd's attention to what was happening at the rear of the stadium. As the white cloud of the gas began drifting inside, many thought it was a fight or fire. Then fee police, with their two fogging machines, began walking inside driving the youths from the back of the stadium through the exit to the outside. With the back half cleared, the fogging machines stopped for a couple minutes. The police carrying the machines then began walking toward the crowd sitting in the front (ConJiiiued On Page 2) THi STETSON III Florida*® oldest college mewspsper Vol. 84 September 17, 1971 No. 2 Johns sets situation^ goals at informational forum The University forum for freshmen conducted by President John Johns in Elizabeth Hall, Monday morning saw almost as many upper- classmen attend as did freshmen. Dr, Johns initiated fee ooorly- attended assembly by describing the university's structure. The President of Stetson then went on to explain how a student could assert himself. The President of the Student. Government Association who has direct access to the President and the student senate are means of expressing student wishes, he explained. Br. Johns continued by stating feat Stetson University is owned by a self-perpetuating board of trustees, that is the trustees vote in their own members-. He further explained that the board cannot have less that 18 members or more than 24, three fourths of said members are.reqiaired to be Baptist. The President of Stetson is an ex«offieio member and also must be a Baptist, The President went on to explain the relationship with the Florida Baptist Convention. "If we broke with the Florida Baptist Convention we would still be a Baptist institution," he said, although the thought of ever breaking wife fee Florida Baptist Convention waslneoneeivable to Dr. Johns. But the President insisted that he was the one who headed the institution and inserted that non- academians cannot run a University. The President eluci dated on the budget The Florida Baptist Convention contributes $300,009 to a budget of $7 million but their donation comprises 40 per cent of the general fund. The rest of the money, President Johns explained, consists of student tuition, endowments, gifts, and foundations. President Johns revealed budget information which showed Stetson ahead of the Southern and National averages (for 1971-72) in student seraetss. The administration pay of Stetson was lower than the national and Southern college average. This latter factor, President Johns pointed out. was due understandably to the lack of resources in the library (which was Stetson's weak point in the budget). The questions, not particularly' relevant to President John's discussion, were asked in the latter part of the forum when some students were filtering out for their next classes. Prom ttv questions Dr. Johns revealed that dorm visitation would sot be changed, another possible increase ($150) in tuition, a faculty cat from last year, and plans for a new gym but not in the immediate future. Trio slates weekend The Howard Hanger Trio, sponsored by the Religious Life Council, will appear at Stetson this weekend. Beginning with an encounter workshop tomorrow from 16 a.m. to 5 p.m., the group will experiment with different types of communication and experience. The workshop will deal with trust, sensitivity, belief, communication, and involvement. Registration for particiijatien in the workshop will be held today from 1] a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to6 p.m. in front of the SUB. Tomorrow night at 8 a communion celebration will be held to close the workshop. A com temporary worship will be held Sunday morning at 8:45. During the service, held at the First Presbyterian Church, the trio will experiment with "spontaneous liturgy". The weekend's finale will be an outdoor jazsr concert Sunday afternoon at 2.