Tech Protestors Leave Building; M.I.T. to Seek Warrants Today

Demonstrators occupying the offices of M.I.T. President Howard W. Johnson and M.I.T. Corporation Chairman James R. Killian left voluntarily on Friday before they could be served with an injunction that permanently bars occupation of M.I.T. offices.

Johnson announced yesterday that he would seek warrants on all non- M.I.T. students identified during the occupation. A statement issued Saturday said that the Institute would charge various demonstrators with trespass, breaking and entering, and theft and publication of university files.

Tech administrators charged that there had been substantial vandalism inside the occupied offices.

About 50 demonstrators left the building at 10 p.m. Friday. An M.I.T. student in the demonstration said that they left "because there was no further point in holding the building and because we thought it was more important to make plans to increase student support."

After leaving the offices, the students marched through the building and past Johnson's Memorial Drive home. They finished with a rally at Kresge Auditorium.

The demonstrators were unaware that M.I.T. officials were making "preliminary arrangements" to serve an injunction which was granted Friday evening by Middlesex Superior Court. The university statement issued Saturday said, "The judge's order is still outstanding and can be used in the case of any future occupation."

The demonstrators issued a statement Saturday warning the administration that the occupation was "the first act of a coalition organized to counter M.I.T.'s violent and repressive political commitments."

Demands

At a mass meeting yesterday, students drew up a list of five demands including:

an end to war- related research;

prohibition of G.E. recruiters from campus until the end of the current strike;

an end to harassment of campus workers:

revocation of past punishments, especially the expulsion of student body president Mike Albert, and amnesty for all those involved in the occupation;

abolition of the M.I.T. faculty-student disciplinary committee.

The meeting also endorsed a statement of solidarity with the Harvard OBU and their demand for 20 per cent black workers on Harvard construction projects.

There will be a rally Wednesday at noon at which radical students will present petitions supporting the five demands and complicity statements which allow students to admit their part in the occupation. However, no further militant action is planned until the beginning of the new term in February.