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3,500 WALK-OUT AT PITT TO PROTEST FOR SUBSIDIZATION

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Amateur football may be all right for the smaller schools, but not for really great institutions like Pitt," claimed one of 3,500 students who staged a two-hour walk-out to protest the resignation of Jock Sutherland.

The contingent for amateurism, largely composed of professors tried to carry on classes despite the melee. One professor sent the demonstrators fleeing from his class-room with a fine show of fisticuffs.

Everywhere the strikers went, they were greeted with cries of "red", "we're for the strikers," "subsidization must go," and "Get the hell out of here,"

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