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Background: loyal gould today show sport 6 a.m., may 20, 1966
about 40 demonstrators took over eighth floor administration offices of downtown roosevelt university.

(they insisted they wouldn't leave until the university ended its co-operation with selective service.

(the demonstrators demanded the college refuse to make class ranks available to draft officials, and that it decline to give deferment tests and that students have a voice in university policy.

(administrators said they were pleased young people are involved in current issues but that a minority of the university's over 6,000 students had no right to force its views on the majority.

(finally-several hours after the university's closing time--police arrived and told the demonstrators to leave:
(some of the demonstrators got up and left.

but others, like sit-in leader steve baum, were carried out.

(in call, 25 were arrested and spent the night in jail. others threaten to resume the demonstration today.