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c . . * . . - Academic cooperation in various parts of the nation difr'ers. . A t Rutgers, for instance, President Mason Gross fully supports the moratorium as does New Jersey Senator Clifford Case. Gross called on camps organizations to observe the moratorium by hold- ing debates, panel discussions, conferences, music, theater, and movies suitable for such a day of critical reflection. In California, although full support statements have been issued by Senator Alan Cranston (Democrat) and other leading political figures, Glenn S. Dumke, chancellor of the state college system, probably with the full support of Governor Reagan, has taken a firm anti-protest line. D u d e sent a letter to the presidents of the nineteen colleges in the system prohibiting them from endorsing the moratorium. He also ordered them to take "formal disciplinary proceedings" against professors who dismiss classes. * Dr. Andrew Cordier, new Preside% of Columbia University, in an effort to prevent the new Co1umbia;IJniversity senate from taking a formal position in favor of the moratorium, addressed the group,stathig that he personally shared the abhorrence of all to the war. He stated that the conflict has become more and.mo.re shame- ful and is a war that cannot be won. Cordier hoped that the Univer- sity would not, however, take a stand in .a political matter. Cordier's appeal failed and the University senate, heavily populated with stu- dents and younger faculty members, voted 51 to 25 to support the national moratorium. Two weeks later the Arts and Science Faculty Senate at Harvard followed suit taking a position for the first time in Harvard's history in a national political matter. Among the prominent national organizations actively involved in planned protest on October 15 are several well known, politically extreme left entities, among them: Dagmar Wilson's, Women's Strike for Peace; Dave Dellinger's (and Rennie Davis'), New Mo- bilization Committee; and Leon Trotsky's (SWP-YSA) Student Mobe. A number of more localized and lesser known groups such as Political Action for Peace, National Association of Elack Students, the Detroit Coalition Committee, the National Association of Social Workers and many, many others are participating. The bulk of the . promotion and propagandizing, however, has been handled (most effectively) by the VMC. This organization incidentally describes * . . 3