Columbia Is Peaceful As Freshman Register; Rudd Will Try Today

NEW YORK, Sept. 17--The campus of Columbia University was relatively peaceful today as the Class of 1972 went through registration lines. More action is expected tomorrow, however, when SDS leader Mark Rudd and some 30 other students who where suspended by Columbia for their roles in last spring's campus-rebellion attempt to register.

The university, according to sources here, is expected to have Rudd and other suspended students arrested if they try to register with other upperclassmen. They may be charged with criminal trepass.

Andrew W. Cordier, acting president of Columbia, announced last week that he and the university trustees had asked the courts to drop criminal trepass charges against some 400 students but recommended no leniency for 154 students charged with more serious crimes, including assault and incting to riot.

Suspensions Lifted

Cordier also lifted the suspensions of 42 students who participated in the second occupation of Hamilton Hall, the main classroom building on the campus, last May 21-22. The 30 who will attempt to register tomorrow were charged with more serious offenses and did not have their suspensions lifted.

Yesterday, representatives of Columbia SDS met with Cordier and presented specfic demands for an end to the university's "racist and militaristic policies." Among the demands were:

* A permanent halt to construction of a gymnasium in Morningside Park, Work there has been temporarily suspended pending talks with the nieghboring Harlem community.

* An end to planning of a Harlem renewal project, which the radical students consider a further encroachment into the coommunity by the university.

* "Complete and total amnesty" for all participants in the spring rebellion.

* Cessation by the university of "all its activities which support the American government's policy of imperialisim."