Students Gathering in Chicago To Chart '72 Youth Strategy

CHICAGO--More than 2400 student delegates--representing 48 states-- arrived here yesterday to build a national youth caucus to maximize their power at the 1972 party conventions.

"We're here to make sure that there are 300 young people inside the convention walls next summer and not excluded and beaten in the streets outside." Steve Morgan '70, a first year student at the Graduate School of Education and one of the conference organizers, said.

Arnold Miller, another organizer, said the turnout was double the predicted number. "It's a demonstration of what young people around the country feel about this administration," he said.

The three-day meeting at Loyola University is billed as an "emergency conference for new voters." It was organized by the National Association of Student Governments and has the support of 100 student body presidents.

The primary purpose of the conference is to teach those already committed to defeating President Nixon the skills they will need to achieve their goal. Students will spend the weekend in workshops dealing with such problems as delegate selection. precinct-level organization. party mechanics, fund-raising, and press relations.

Young Officials

On Sunday, a special panel of young elected officials, including Larry DiCara '71. a Boston city councilman-elected will speak to the conference. DiCara said last night that he would tell the delegates that political success for young candidates is now possible, but that "in talking about the youth vote, we should remember that it's not all liberal, to the left, or whatever you want to call what we're supposed to be."

Joseph Rauh Jr., a Washington lawyer active in the fights against the Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, was the first of several nationally prominent speakers to address the conference.

Rauh pleaded last night with the delegates, "for your own good," to organize campus opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of William Rehnquist.

Linking the Rehnquist nomination with the theme of the conference. Rauh said that "there's only one way to stop more Rehnquists. We've got to beat Richard Nixon in 1972."

Following Rauh, Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) spoke, insisting that students, minority groups and women constitute a majority of the Democratic party and have the potential to control it. She received several standing ovations.

Other speakers who will address the conference later this weekend include Daniel Ellsberg '52, former Rep. Allard K. Lowenstein (D-N.Y.). Georgia state representative Julian Bond. Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.). Rep. Donald Riegle (R-Mich.) and Rep. Walter Fauntroy (D-D.C.)