Three of IS requests made by Eastern's Black Student Union were granted Monday night by President Robert R. Martin. President Martin granted the requests at a BSU meeting after the IB proposals haff been submitted Friday morning by members of the organisation who met with him in an impromptu meeting In Us office. The requests, which the BSU Friday morning had termed "demands" until President Martin objected, which were granted Included: An investigation of faculty prejudice against black

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... s. That two or more black cheerleaders be added to the squad. That black officers be added to the campus security force. President Martin said that he has named a five-member faculty committee to study the alleged faculty prejudice and submit its report before the close of the semester. On the request for additional black cheerleaders, the president said that next year's squad "will have at least two black cheerleaders If they try out." On the third request which he approved, President Martin said that he has contacted Sid Yeldell, a buck student and Uw enforcement major^about working for the campus security force. For the other 12 requests, the president acted upon several of them though none was granted as had been proposed. He said that a request calling for all' misdemeanors committed on campus to be handled by campus agencies rather than "outside agencies," such as local courfs/'presents difficulties." He reaffirmed that city police, sheriffs officers and sUte police / have arrest power on campus and that the trend in the country U for those arrested to be tried in regular courts rather than a university agency.-He said, however, that Eastern would define as carefully as possible the offenses which the University can deal with .through its own agencies such as the Student Disciplinary Board. On a request stipulating that five more black drill team members be added to the squad, the president said that he hopes "there U enough interest by bUck students to have five more black drill team members." He told the estimated 200 students in the LaFuze Room, Science Building, that be could not and would not grant another request seeking thorough coverage of bUck-sponsor ed activities U The Progress and The Milestone. He urged the BSU members to Join the staffs of the publications to help fulfill the request but pointed out Oat he has no authority over content of either two. The president said that a request calling for the recruitment of more black faculty members would be "very difficult" to fulfill. He added that he would like for 5% of Eastern's faculty to be black and that the University would strive to keep bUck students here by giving them graduate Ssslstantshlps and then hiring them as faculty members. On a reUted request seeking the addition of bUck administrators here, the president said there now is no administrative vacancies but that a black student has been chosen to receive a graduate assistantship and work through the presidents office and will be asked to remain here as an administrator after earning his masters's degree. On another request sttpuUting that the BSU be given finances to recruit bUck students, the president noted that Eastern to an "open University" with less admission restrictions than some other universities and that "not one black student to 10 years has been denied admission" here. He added that 109 bUck students have been accepted for admission next fall. Another proposal seeking a curriculum which would grant a Bachelor of Arts Degree in black studies is being studied, the president said. "A report will be forthcoming," he told the group. On two reUted requests calling for more bUck lecturers and more bUck entertainers, all of which would be approved by the BSU, President Martin said that a black student and a . black faculty member would be chosen for the University Center Board which selects the speakers and entertainers. He added that he cannot veto the selections made by the Canter Board because such action would stall bookings for the campus. In response to a request .. for full-time doctors and nur-(Continued on Page Five) Pratt Wins Presidency BT JOB EDWAKDS Jim Pratt, Junior, and his "Put Students First" Ticket swept to victory yesterday in Student Association elections. Elected with president-elect Pratt were Dee Norris, vicepresident; KathyWozny, secretory, and Tom Crispin, treasurer. In a special referendum on the ballot, coeds voted 10-1 in favor of unrestricted curfew hours. Approximately 29.1% (2,817) of the student body (9,661) voted in the presidential race. Election totals were Pratt, Pratt, since he U from West Mansfield, Ohio, U Ineligible to hold Eastern's non-voting student regent seat by virtue of his out-of-state status. A special election will need to be held to fill the regent seat Pratt, an industrial education major, told The Progress moments after his election was announced last night that "I'm numb and elated. Really I'm shaking like a leaf. I think, however, that all the credit in the world has to go to the people I had working for me. They did one fantastic Job." Pratt received 64.6% of the total vote cast for president. Of die winning candidates, Norrls is a senior from Richmond; Miss Womy a Junior from Louisville, and Crispin a sophomore from Louisville. Pratt succeeds James V. Pellegrlnon as Student Association president. Pellegrlnon, a Junior, announced a month ago that he would not seek re-election to the presidency. The 29% voter turnout yesterday equaled the lowest In three years. Turnouts for the last few years were 39% last year,