Student congress president Thomas Doherty called upon students to boycott classes to protest the suspensions. He claimed that a majority already supported the strike and had begun skipping classes Friday. Other were a bit more guarded. "We'll have to wait until Monday to see if the strike develops," one student said.
The 22 student members of the faculty senate Friday proposed a plan asking for amnesty for the suspended students and a temporary ban on campus recruiting. They also sought thorough reexamination of Holy Cross's "open campus rule" and its racial policies.
The Holy Cross faculty will hold a special meeting Saturday to discuss the suspensions and the issue of an open campus. Both the judicial board and the trustees have urged college president Raymond J. Swords to lighten the punishments given the demonstrators.
Several coordinated bands of wildly, attired and long-haired demonstrators occupied parts of Harvard Square Thursday afternoon and for an hour of chaotic holiday season celebrations. The invaders shattered the complacency of mid-afternoon shoppers and forced them to cluster together along the sidewalks to defend their peace of mind.
Six persons dressed in gold bedspreads, long underwear, and nylon stockings passed out Christmas-Krishna carrot sticks and chanted "We wish you a Hare Krishna and a Happy New Year." Members of "The Salvation Navy Band" supplemented the Krishna medley.
Men's Lib
Outside the entrance to the MTA, the Men's Auxiliary of the Women's Liberation Front sought signatures in support of its proposed march to the Sigmund Freud Obelisk in Vienna, Austria on January 10, 1970. Rod Weiner, representing a local cucumber processor, offered Kosher dill spears, slim jim beef jerkies, and hot finger pepers for sale to raise money for the Auxiliary.
A militant demonstrator picketed the Coop, urging an end to the Jew-Communist-Pinko-Fascist Conspiracy and to the sale of E-Z day dry-mops and Hallmark Christmas cards. Meanwhile, pro-establishment enthusiasts hawked copies of Forbes magazine. "The capitalist tool."
One devious-looking character whispered in the cars of pedestrians waiting at crosswalks, selling what a placard said were "dynamite trips" at "a dollar a hit." and an enterprising artist with a scratch pad offered instant crayon masterpieces of Cambridge scenes at discount rates.
One veteran news dealer captured the general sentiment of sidewalk onlookers, "They ought to call the psycho ward and be done with them," he said.
After polite suggestions from Cambridge police officers, the entourage retreated to the sanctity of the Harvard Lampoon castle on Mount Auburn Street.
Tricia Nixon's reported romance received a serious setback with published rumors that Edward Cox, a first-year law student at Harvard was unacceptable to the Nixon family as Tricia's future husband.
Washington society columnist Maxine Chesire stated Friday that a "long-time friend of the Nixon family" told her that the President and Mrs. Nixon were opposed to Tricia's marrying Cox. Her source gave no specific grounds for the family's disapproval except that Cox was not the "really special" match that the Nixons wanted for Tricia.
Cox remained calm about the rejection which Miss Chesire had reported. "Maxine made the engagement, and I suppose there is no reason why she can't call it off." He said that he and Tricia were "good friends" but "certainly not engaged."
Miss Chesire began reporting the rumors of serious romance in her column after the Harvard-Princeton game and predicted an engagement before Christmas. Cox dismissed this prediction as a figment of her imagination. He said that the story about the family's disapproval was concocted by Miss Chesire when she realized that an engagement announcement was not imminent.