Yale, B. C. Strikes Continue; Harvard Professor's Work Safe in Stanford Fire

About 70 Boston College students continued their occupation of two administration offices yesterday. They said last night that they have no plans to leave the building.

The students, many of them members of the "Left Collective" at B. C., occupied Thursday the offices of B. C. president Rev. W. Seavy Joyee and executive vice-president Rev. Francis X. Shea to emphasize that the student strike over a proposed $300 tuition increase is still in effect.

No Classes

In a three-and-a-half hour meeting yesterday, the University Academic Senate-composed of students, faculty members, and administrators-decided to uphold its decision of last Wednesday calling for a "suspension of formal classes" for the rest of the academic year.

A student-administration negotiating team also met yesterday to work out a new set of proposals which, if accepted both by the administration and the students, could result in an end to the 11-day-old strike.

In a referendum Tuesday, the student body rejected a 19-point plan devised by the negotiating team calling for a tuition increase of $210 and several administrative reforms.

More Hassles

Final exams on academic work covered up to the time of the strike will begin at B. C. on May 12 and will graded "pass-fail."

At Lasell Junior College, also in Newton, more than 500 girls picketed the administration building yesterday, protesting a trustees' decision to drop five faculty members as of June 1971.

Brewster Suspends Classes

Yale president Kingman Brewster Jr. said yesterday that university professors would be allowed to suspend classes beginning Monday for an "explicitly indefinite period" so that students and faculty could discuss the Black Panther trial in New Haven.

Although nearly 70 per cent of the university has been on strike since Tuesday. Yale has not been closed officially.

The strikers, who are protesting certain university practices as well as the Black Panther trial, will conduct teachings and discussions over the weekend. Steven M. Estzanik, a Srike Steering Committee member, said these teachings could lead to a demonstration on Monday.

In Boston yesterday, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy asked for support of the Panthers in the May 1 demonstration. Abernathy said he hoped for a peaceful demonstration but that the "forces of evil," specifically governmental agencies like the CIA and FBI, could cause violence.

Speakers at a strike meeting at Yale Thursday night also stressed the importance of keeping the Panther protest non-violent. "Violence will not help the Panthers at all." said Kate Field, a member of the Strike Steering Committee. "Violence will only cause the trial to be moved to the county capital, another year's delay, and the jailing of more people."

All 12 colleges at Yale accepted three of the five demands put forth by the Strike Steering Committee on Thursday. These three demands call for Yale to disclose its land holdings and halt expansion, improve conditions for workers at the university, and provide daycare centers for the Yale community.

The main Steering Committee proposal demanding that Yale call for a halt of the New Haven trial has been modifi?l or rejected by the majority of the colleges.

Estzanik said that the strikers must, demand a definite set of proposals if any success is to be achieved. "The strike faces the danger of falling apart if strikers do not unite behind a set of demands calling for a halt of the trial," he said.

Stanford Fire

A mysterious fire on the Stanford campus yesterday damaged the office of John Rawls, a Harvard professor of Philosophy who is on leave this year, but his academic material was saved.

Four firebombs were tossed at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences around 5 a.m. Two started fires which did more than $50.000 damage.

At 1 a.m. yesterday. police had charged the Old Union building, which a group of students were occupying in an anti-ROTC protest. Police arrested 22 demonstrators, but about 100 escaped and rampaged through the campus breaking windows and setting minor fires.

Rawls, who is at Stanford to write a book on moral philosophy, was awakened at 6 a.m. yesterday by a Center official and told all his notes had been destroyed. "But I didn't lose a thing," he said last night.

Three nearby offices were badly burned; Rawls said an anthropologist lost several years of his work.