Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A petition urging the end of the strike, and a Faculty-signed letter affirming the principle of academic freedom were issued yesterday.
The petition, which is still in circulation, has been signed by 30 Faculty members, 23 teaching fellows, and over 500 students according to Betty A. Diamond '69.
The radical teaching fellows also held departmental meetings yesterday. Seventy-five teaching fellows signed a petition declaring themselves on strike, refusing to teach or grade until the seven SDS demands are met. Sixty-five more teaching fellows at those meetings reportedly supported strike for other reasons.
A majority of the students and faculty of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, which is affiliated with the University, signed a petition condemning the decision to bring in police. The decision "made violence and brutality an inevitable outcome," the petition said.
* Ray has hired Memphis Attorney Richard J. Ryan to seek to overturn the 99-year sentence Ray accepted last month in return for a guilty plea. Judge W. Preston Battle, 60, the tough jurist who sentenced Ray, was found dead of a heart attack last week. Judge Arthur Faquin, appointed...