■The overwhelming majority of University of Massachusetts students who voted in a referendum on the Vietnam War supported immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. Of the more than 2,000 students voting, only 341 did not favor immediate withdrawal.
■Boy Scout troop 109 of Blessed Sacrament Church held a court of honor and a roast beef supper Saturday night. After the awards were given, there was a simulated first aid demonstration. The victim was Bernard Jaworski, and the scouts working on him were Norman Longtin, Leonard Day Christopher Laflamme, and Beryle Shaw.
■Smith College President Mary Maples Dunn has been appointed director of a Radcliffe College library that houses one of the largest collections of material on American women’s history. Dunn, 63, yesterday said she will assume her new post as director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe in the fall.
■The city is considering installing barriers along the wall that surrounds the parking garage roof in an effort to keep people from putting themselves in danger up there. Robert Rocheleau, manager of the E. John Gare Parking Garage, told the Parking Commission Tuesday that he has had to tell youths in the past to get off that wall.
■Librarians around the state are sounding off on proposed cuts that many say would hit western Massachusetts especially hard. Plans are to eliminate funding for the 50-year-old Western Massachusetts Regional Library System as of July 1 as part of a consolidation of the state’s six-region library system.
■Edward Button’s career with the Northampton DPW ends tomorrow. Button, 60, is retiring after 35 years and four months on the job. Button has been the city’s streets superintendent, also known as the road boss, for four years.