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o~ Ne vy 100-161445 CONFIDE TIAL 4 tof every law on the books including the law of gravity.' "Referring to the bombings, he cracked: ‘What goes up doesn't necessarily come down.* " The “Columbia Daily Spectator" a Columbia University undergraduate student newspaper, in its March 16, 1970 issue contained an article entitled "Senate Scores Government Actions, But Rejects Bid For Panthers' Bail; 400 Stage Sit-In _ At Uris", which stated in part as follows: / "Several hundred radical students, bemanding that the university provide bail for members of the Black Panther Party | currently filed on conspiracy charges, briefly occupied Uris Hall j Friday afternoon, then led a march across ‘campus during which a about 40 windows were smashed insix Columbia buildings. . "The actions--sponsored by the December 4th Movement -a4 (D4M)--followed a mass rally on Low Plaza called by a coalition ge of student groups to back the demand that the university med provide defense funds for the Panther 21. "Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, a defendant in the Chicego conspiracy trial; Afeni Shakur, of the Panther 21; Jean Genet, the French playwright; members of the Third World Coalition and a spokesman for the Students' Afro-American Society addressed. the crowd of nearly 2500 sprawled in front of Low Library while the University Senate was debating whether to raise money for the Panthers. a “Abbie Hoffman then delivered a rollicking, half-serious speech to the expectant crowd. Hoffman, who had just returned from Puerto Rico, described an anti-ROTC student strike in progress at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, then launched into a series of one-liners. * A “*Have you heard the weather report?' he queried. ™ ‘Well, Mark Rudd gave the weather report on the Today Show and I'1l tell you about the weather map. Seattle--boom! San Francisco-~boom! New York--boom! boom! boom! Hoffman said the Yippies--of which he is a co-founder--believe in ‘violating ~ 2h - CONFIDENTIAL.