Yesterday's pickets encircled University Hall, holding hands in a moving line. The first confrontation came at 8:10 a.m. when Archibald Cox '34. the University's Law. professor who oversees demonstrations, attempted to enter and was turned back.
Most of the deans who have offices in the building arrived shortly after 9 a.m. but none attempted to enter. Several deans left while others stood by and watched the pickets.
At 9:45 a.m., Dean May arrived with a bullhorn and read the warning statement three times, at different points around the building.
After the warnings, May said that the Faculty Council had met Sunday night and had decided that any obstructive picketing is in violation of the CRR resolution. He said that "a warning was needed."
May left shortly thereafter. saying that he was "going to see if the personnel director (John B. Butler) would come explain the University's position on striking employees to these people." May did not return to University Hall while the pickets were there.
At 10:22 a.m., Samuel R. Williamson Jr., special assistant to Dean May, arrived and attempted to enter the building through each of its five doors.
Williamson Fails
At each entrance, pickets locked arms and stood six-deep facing the doors, completely thwarting Williamson's efforts. Wiliamson asked each time, "Excuse me, may I get through?" with varied-but always negative-responses.
No other administrators attempted to pass through the pickets during the course of the day.
A meeting of the demonstrators at 11:45 a.m. voted to remain on the steps of the building until 5 p.m.. and to send representatives to the houses to gather supporters during lunch.
The heat and a brief rain shower about 4 p.m. dispersed many of the pickets, and only about 100 remained for the group's final meeting at 5 p.m.
An NAC meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. on the Northwest steps of the building voted not to return to picket this morning, and instead to concentrate on leafleting and building towards a mass demonstration at the CFIA building Wednesday.
Other pickets-many of them SDS members-did want to rerun, however, and by a vote of 38-23, the pickets that were left at 5:45 p.m. decided to congregate again at University Hall at 7:30 a.m. today.