Tuesday, October 17, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Profs criticize MU's discipline
COLUMBIA, Mo. — (UPI) — Eighteen MU professors voiced strong opposition today to the university's handling over the weekend of six students who passed out anti-Vietnam war material to visiting high school students and their parents.
The six students, none of whom were charged, were picked up Saturday by university and Columbia police in front of the Student Union Building.
University officials said university regulations forbid students from participating in any activity which would conflict with a scheduled university event.
University Dav
Last Saturday was University Day on the Columbia campus. About 3,800 high school students, many accompanied by parents, visited the campus.
The group of professors said in a signed statement "the very heart of a free society and a free university is the freedom to dissent and to be politically active.
"Such freedom is not protected by forcing students into police
Jersey advertises KU in Africa
KU is being advertised in the 7,400-ft. heights of Kenya in Africa.
Aldon Bell, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences now on leave in England, sent a picture from the Sept. 11 London Times showing four English runners in high altitude training for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico.
Alan Simpson, one of the four, is wearing a jersey bearing a bright and clear "Kansas University."
Simpson, who has been in international competition against KU junior Jim Ryun, world record holder in the mile, worked out a trade. Or, perhaps he decided that if a KU shirt were good for Ryun, it might help him, and bought one.
cars. It is not something that can be turned on and off depending on who is in town. Dissent is untidy, but it is an integral part of freedom."
The professors asked that university officials apologize to the six students and "furthermore we urge that firm assurance be given that student freedom will not again be arbitrarily restricted."
Harmony receives $29,900 study grant
Marlin O. Harmony, associate professor of chemistry, has been awarded a $29,900 National Science Foundation grant, for use in his study of the effects of microwave radiation upon small gaseous molecules.
He hopes to gain a better understanding of chemical bonding theories. He will seek to discover, through laboratory study, the nature of chemical bonding in gaseous molecules and the reactivity in small molecular structures.
Two graduate students, Kent Cox, Lawrence, and Ying-sing Li, Taiwan, will assist Harmony.
Draft theory, laws-
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law requires you to notify your local board in writing of every change (in address, physical condition, marital status, etc.) which might change your classification within 10 days after it occurs."
Another case affecting the rights of the potential draftee is the decision in U.S. v. Seeger which states a person with deep moral and social conviction against war, parallel in intensity with a religiously held belief, may qualify as a conscientious objector.
Protects atheists
"For the first time atheists or nonreligionly motivated youth have legal ground to stand on," said Lynn.
While the conscientious objector path is taken by many who genuinely believe, through religious or other beliefs, war is immoral (and by some who simply use the method to escape induction), others prefer to stand by their convictions of the immorality and/or the illegality of the Vietnam war and simply refuse to be inducted.
Pakistani student working for UN
The actions of these non-cooperators range from simply ignoring the fact Selective Service exists to properly registering and following all the required steps leading up to, but not including, ultimate submission to induction.
He is working with the United Nations Secretariat on a research study of the world's refining capabilities. This gives him the opportunity of working with Charles A. Heller, a pioneer in the petro-chemical industry.
Shehzad Sadiq, Pakistan graduate student, is on "diplomatic leave of absence" this semester.
Ali tried it
During the summer Sadiq held a four-week student internship at UN headquarters.
The case of ex-heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali is now well known. Ali refused to take the step forward signifying his acceptance of induction in Houston last April.
Other methods of non-cooperation include draft card burning, returning draft cards and classification notices to the Selective Service, refusal to take pre-induction physicals, and refusal to register for the draft, either by simply failing to do so or by informing the board of intent not to do so.
The CCCO in its booklet "Handbook for Conscientious Objectors" mentions some who object to notifying government authorities announce their stand in a news release or open letter to a local newspaper.
Board may call If the non registrant informs his local board of his intent, the board
will probably ask him to appear before it, says the CCCO handbook. If he does so and orally gives the required information, he will be registered by the board even though he signs no papers.
The CCCO relates a Circuit Court case which indicates refusal to give the required information is the crime, rather than the refusal to sign the papers. A section of Selective Service Regulations gives local boards the authority to consider as registered any man who answers their fifteen questions.
The CCCO says if a registrant persists in his non-cooperation, he will be declared delinquent, and be ordered to report for induction whether or not he has taken a pre-induction physical or been classified I-A.
War, evolution are lecture subjects
Professor R. S. Bigelow, University of Canterbury in New Zealand, will give a lecture entitled "War and Evolution" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, in Strong Auditorium. The lecture will be based on human evolution.
Bigelow, a Canadian, formerly made studies in the evolution of insects. For example, he studied the DDT resistance in house flies and the species formation in crickets.
Grant will allow equipment buys
A National Science Foundation grant of $55,000 will enable KU's microbiology department to buy equipment for graduate research.
David Paretsky, chairman of the department, said that among the instruments to be purchased are spectrophotometers, to compare the intensities of the corresponding colors in two spectra; fermentation vats; an analytical ultracentrifuge, to separate materials of different densities using highspeed centrifugal force; and an apparatus for disrupting microbial cells.
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