'Ecstasy' Cancellation at M.I.T. Sets Off Student Parade, Bomb

Eight hundred M.I.T. students were left in the lurch Tuesday night when Cambridge police forced cancellation of a scheduled showing of "Ecstasy." The banning was the first repercussion of Councillor Edward A. Sullivan's order, approved unanimously by the city council last Monday, that the License Bureau show more care in issuing movie permits.

Audience reaction was immediate and mixed. Booing students quickly organized into a small parade which, however, soon disbanded. A few minutes later, students set off a sodium bomb behind the home of M.I.T.'s President James R. Killion. The majority of the crowd, however, went back to the books.

Bitterness Manifest

Members of the Student Lecture Service Committee, which arranged the showing, expressed a good deal of bitterness over the entire affair. They maintained that a permit had been obtained without any difficulty, and that there was no indication of possible trouble until two policemen mounted the stage and announced that the film could not be shown.

Ivy Films' showing of "Ecstasy" four times last week provoked Sullivan's order. The councillor declared the movie "immoral" after viewing it last Friday and introduced the order on Monday, two days after M.I.T. had been granted the permit.