CYO - SLERT protest successful

A mock protest confrontation staged yesterday afternoon in the Huddle by members of the C.Y.O. and S.L.E.R.T. proved unexpectedly successful when the objects of the protest, the two shooting-gam e machines, were ordered removed from the Huddle by manager Ernest Eero. The protest, part o f a continu­ ing joke being played by both groups in a reversal of their well known political positions, consisted of Slert’s storming the games armed with signs and posters declaiming the games as “ d e a th —m achines” and de­ manding their removal, and the CYO’s attem pts to break up the dem onstration in the cause of “ American individual freedom and Holy Mother Church” . The SLERT effort was headed by campus conservative leaders Mike Kelly and Chris Wolfe. As p re v io u s ly a d v e r tise d , the SLERT forces appeared in the Huddle at noon yesterday, seven strong, fully equipped for their parody on liberally-oriented campus dem onstrations. Slert Chancellor Kelly, wear­ ing a paper crucifix and a “ legalize p o t” bu tton , began the protest by handcuffing himself to the periscope of the submar? ine sinker game. Vice Chancellor Wolfe swung into an im prom tu religious service labeled as a means of “drawing the Christian c o m m u n ity closer to one another” by reading quotes from Chairman Mao. The confrontation began as eleven members of the CYO, headed by chairman Bernie Ryan and his aide John Zimmer­ m a n , approached the Slert picket line and demanded the r i g h t t o p l a y t h e