http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/upimage/VF_I18C_035.pdf

Media

Part of Irate Crowd Breaks Into Dance at UB, February 21, 1976

Text

Total Column lnches This Page

Irate Crowd

Breaks
1

Into

Dance at
UB
and
•

1½

Seven windows .
a door
and the basement
were broken
was flooded in Clark Hall OD
the University of Buffalo Main

night

St Campuson Friday

2

when hundreds of patronsbarged
into a sold-out dance hall.

A UB spokesman said hun-

be
• out­ came
raged when the hall was closed
after reaching its capacityof
1,800 persons about 9 p.m.The
spokesman said persons outside
the hall began pushing and shoving to enter. The windows .were
broken and a water fountain on
the second floor in the building
was knocked from its foundation, causing water to run down
stairways, and flood the basement to a depth of four inches.
The spokesman-$Sid. campus
security police stood, by and no
arrests were made. He said the
disturbance ended without police
action after the crowd burst
into the hall. The crowd broke
one door off its hinges.
The disturbance lasted about
a half hour.

dr!!ds of patrons

2½

3

3½

4

4½

.

5½

6

6½

7

out-

_..

No Damage Estimate
No estimate of damage was
made.
The spokesman said the crowd
in the hall swelled to an estimat­
2,800 - 1,00 more than capacity. "They we r e jammed
pack - sitting and· standing
everywhere," he added.
He also said scores of auto­
mobiles were parked illegally on
campus sidewalks and lawns.
The dance was sponsored by
the Universiy Activity Board
and the Black Student Union,
and was scheduled to end short­
ly after midnight.

7½
8

8½

9

CODE:

One=page l; TR=trick page; SP=split page; ED=Editorial page; SPO=sports page; SO=society page;
RTV=radio-TV column or supplement: MAG=suppleme