YOUTH BRIGADE MAY LOSE STATUS AS OSU STUDENT GROUP

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: February 17, 1979
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17 February 1979
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By Carol Ann Lease
OU Tfv Dhpatch Staff
The Revolutionary
Communist Youth Bri-
gade no longer should be a
student organization at
Ohio State University, the
Student Commission rec-
ommended Friday after a
hearing that got off toa
stormy start in the,Ohio
Union;
Commission head Tami
.Hockenberger recessed
the hearing after brigade
president Patricia Pres-
tom said the organization
would not plead to
charges against it and
/tried to read a statement
calling the session a
"lynching."
SHE AND brigade trea-
surer George Preston,
who is. her husband, did
not return when the hear-
ing reconvened. They
maintained it should have
been postponed because
brigade adviser John B.
Quigley-Jr.. professor _ of
law, was out of town.
Following university,"
rules,. John Halstead,
coordinator of judicial af-
fairs, presented the uni-
versity's case. without re-
buttal. He, instituted.?pro-
ceedings after. students`,
faculty 'and . staff com=
plained about a ' Jan..23
demonstration; sponsored
by the brigade . during:
which a CIA' recruiter`on
campus was splattered`'
with red paint
After 90 minutes oi?-
deliberations, the nine
member commission
found the brigade , guilty
of violating a rule allow-
ing students to meet with
recruiters and two addi-
tional rules prohibiting
intentional threat: of or
inflicting of bodily harm
and intentional threat of
or actual destruction of
property.
Students on the tcom-
mission did not rule on
lesser offenses of,, neglig-
ence .leading to the possi-
bility of inflicting bodily
harm or destruction of
property.
FOLLOWING Hal-
stead's recommendations,
they said the brigade;.
' l ? Should be-: barred
from being a student or-
ganization, through. the
-1979-80 academic year-,,.
o Make restitution for
interior damage to' Hitch-
cock Hall where the-,inci-
dent occurred, estimated
during. the hearing at $30
to $40. ( .
o Not be allowed to
reorganize under another
name.
w Not be allowed to
reregister after 1980 un-
less it does pay-for the
damage.
JAMES TRAINER, busi-
ness manager for student
organizations, testified
during the hearing that
.the brigade has spent the
$238 it got from the uni-
versity this academic year
and shows no money in its
accounts.
Actual sanctions will be
imposed' by Richard A.
Hollingsworth, director of
student organizations and
community life.The -brie
gade can appeal both the
convictions - toUniversi-
ty Court - and any, san-
cions imposed ? to Hol-
lingsworth ;-' within 10
days of being notified. ' of
them.
University estimates of
$225. worth;:. of .? damage
included sand blasting the
exterior of Hitchcock Hall
to ;remove a statement,
"U.S. Out of Iran CIA
Off Campus," painted on
the building sometime
during the night after the
dernonstration,.it was re
vealed at the hearing.
pre-planned. Preston has
maintained the brigade
did not know anyone was
going to throw paint.
Witnesses, -including
staff and -students from
the College of Engineer,
ing,where the CIA recrui-
ter:was interviewing, tes-
tif ied that representatives
of the'news media showed
up immediately after the
incident even though they
did not call them and that
Preston came in earlier in {
the day asking to see the l
CIA recruiter, presuma-1
biy so he could identify,
'aer for the 15 -persons]
who appeared later for '
the demonstration.
Miss Hockenberger said
the commission also was
influenced by the fact that
brigade members' distrib-
uted leaflets outside the
building after the incident
and later acknowledged .
responsibility for it in
THE...LEAFLETTS dis-
tributed.. the day of the I
demonstration did not say
anything about paint. Hal.
stead was unable to iden-'
tify the person who threw
the paint or prove he or
she was a member of the'
brigade.
Preston of 189 W. Pat-
terson Ave. and Paul Hol-
li?ter of 2267 Indianola
Ave. have each been
charged with complicity
to perform criminal mis-
chief. Witnesses said.Hol-
lister read a statement
just before the paint. was
thrown.
They both have pleaded'
innocent, the cases have
been consolidated, and a
hearing on the- misde.
meanor charge is sched-
uled for March 9.:
A y
' THE KEY point by Hal-
stead . was that the paint-~
throwing incident.,was
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