University Cops Clamp Down On Stolid Squatters in Yard

Sun-tanners and romancers have lost their squatters rights in the Yard by order of Vice-President Reynolds.

University police have instructions to preserve the dignity of the Yard by pushing on all lawn-sitters from picnickers to mothers tending their babies.

The Yard during the summer months "began to look like a public park," according to Charles C. Pyne, assistant to the Vice-President, who is collaborating with Chief Alvin R. Randall to enforce the ruling.

Sergeant James C. Toomey says there has been little trouble enforcing the rule since the warm weather. But Yard cop Thomas McCarraher has been having difficulty with one mother whom he has warned six days in succession not to sit on the lawn while her child is playing. "I feel badly about having to keep after her," McCarraher said. "But I don't make the regulations; I just carry them out."