Cox, Farnsworth Will Aid In Columbia Fact-Finding

Harvard's Archibald Cox '34 and Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth were yesterday named members of a five-man fact-finding committee that will investigate the Columbia student protests.

Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, will head the committee. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, is the only psychiatrist on the panel. They were chosen by the executive committee of Columbia's faculty.

The announcement came on the eve of an anticipated strike by over 5000 Columbia students today. A 70-member Student Strike Coordinating Committee met yesterday to plan the strike. Each member of the committee represents at least 70 students, who signed petitions supporting him.

The university has announced that all classes will be held as scheduled today for the first time since April 23. According to the Strike Coordinating Committee, however, over 60 classes have already been cancelled by faculty members supporting the strike. Many of these will be held unofficially outdoors.

Picket Lines

2000 students will form picket lines set up around all classroom buildings on Columbia property, at Barnard, and at some graduate schools. Tactics for the strike have been left up to individual picket captains.

Captains received only one instruction, John Shils, press secretary of the Strike Committee said. "Be militant." The Committee medical center has been notified that there may be violence, Shils said.

Support rallies have been planned in Harlem and on the campus after the picketing. The university is demanding double identification from anyone trying to enter the campus.

Finals Cancelled

In another development, all final exams have been cancelled, the Columbia Spectator reported, but classes will be extended through May 29. Students will have the option of taking a pass or a letter grade in courses that they are passing and may take an incomplete in courses they are not passing, making up the course in the fall.

The fact-finding committee will hold its first meeting tomorrow in New York. Cox said that all involved parties will be invited to participate in the meetings, which will be conducted as formal hearings.

He did not say how long the hearings will run but estimated that the committee report would not come out until "well into the summer."

The other three members of the fact-finding committee are Judge Simon H. Rifkind, Hyland G. Lewis, professor of Sociology at City College in Brooklyn, and Jefferson Barnes, dean of the University of Virginia Law School. No one from Columbia will sit on the committee.

Cox spent Saturday in New York meeting with the faculty executive committee. Asked to comment on the composition of the new committee, he said, "I think that what was done speaks for itself."

The student strike has been coordinated to go at least through the end of the school year and perhaps into the summer, Shils said.

At a meeting Friday, the Strike Committee issued a statement demanding:

* No legal or disciplinary measures against the demonstrators.

* The end of construction on the gymnasium in Morningside Heights,

* Columbia's withdrawal from the Institute for Defense Analysis,

* A lifting of the ban against indoor demonstrations,

* Student-faculty participation in Columbia's administration,

* University action to get charges dropped for all university students arrested Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Boston Globe stated yesterday that a police report on Tuesday morning's raid admits police made tactical errors in clearing students from the buildings. The report, which will not be made public, specifically cited the use of plainclothesmen as a mistake.

Columbia Vice President David Truman said that the plans made by the university and police "went seriously awry.