AWOL at B.U. Will Use No Violence

About 300 students occupied Marsh Chapel of the Boston University Theological School for the third day yesterday, assuring the AWOL soldier who has taken sanctuary in the Chapel of a non-violent confrontation with the authorities who will eventually arrive to take him into custody.

Bespectacled Ray Kroll, 18, of College Springs, Wash., the Army private who is the focus for all the activities, sat quietly today near the altar reading a magazine, occasionally answering a question put to him. Several times he disappeared into the basement for a rest.

The people occupying the chapel are busy organizing under an ad hoc committee of Divinity School students and New England Resistance members. They have supplies brought into them and only a small number disappears either at mealtime or during the long nights.

They also have agreed upon a strategy for their inevitable confrontation with the military authorities. First, the scouts stationed at the doors will alert the people inside, who will take up positions sitting in the aisles and obstruct the path of the authorities. Meanwhile, eight hand-picked sactuary occupants will link arms in a circle around Kroll, creating a final barrier to be broken before Kroll can be taken into custody.

"All of this will be non-violent," one student marshall assured his friends. But the real feeling is that there just may be some violence on the part of the authorities. As one of the students put it, "I hope that it is the Federal marshalls who come; at least they are intelligent."

The sanctuary was visited yesterday by numerous members of the faculty of the School of Theology. But no faculty or administrator has offered official support.