EXTRA
82nd Year, No.140
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
EXTRA
Wednesday, May 10, 1972
100 Maintain Protest Vigil in Strong
Kansas Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Atmosphere Quiets Late at Night
Protestors awaited news of meetings.
All-University Meeting Tonight at Field House
By MIKE MOFFET
Kansan Associate Editor
and SCOTT SPREIER
Kennan Campus Editor
Kansan Campus Editor
Approximately 100 people remained in the rotunda of Strong Hall early this morning in a protest against the Indochinese war.
The sit-in started at 4 p.m. Tuesday and continued into the early hours of the morning. During the evening the University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) met in a marathon meeting with negotiators representing the women, where sieving and lying in the rotunda and the chancellor's office in St. Rose Hall.
The demonstrators scheduled a rally to be held in front of Strong Hall at 11:30 p.m.
During the meeting SenEx called for an all-university open meeting at 8 p.m. tonight in Allen Field House to discuss the situation in Indochina, and also scheduled a University Senate meet for 12:15 today at the University Theatre.
The list stated that the committee should be 50 per cent students and 50 per cent faculty, administration and staff. Each half of the committee was to be 50 per cent women and 25 per cent blacks, Chichanos or native Americans.
The antiwar protest flared up Tuesday afternoon when a group of protesters pushed their way into the chancellor's office and presented a list of demands. The demands, which were presented by the university president, were for "the establishment of a University-wide committee to investigate the involvement of the University in the Vietnam War, and to plan and coordinate the carrying out of the disengagement of the United States government to suppress the Vietnamese people."
Three areas which the demand stated the committee should investigate were:
“—the continued presence of ROTC and military recruiters on campus!”
--" research work done at KU which directly or indirectly aids the U.S.
government and military in carrying out the war and its domination of Third World countries—chemical and biological threats, psychological and behavioral control (particularly Project Themis), and research at CRES and in the engineering schools on remote sensing and computer systems for surveillance and automated warfare":
Other Campuses Protest
New antiwar protests erupted around the nation Tuesday in the wake of President Nixon's decision to mine North Korea for weapons, criticizing criticism and press from politicians.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Demonstrators threw three potatoes and rocks at Agnew's limousine as it approached the fairgrounds where he was to speak. One person was injured in the flow of the car, but Agnew was not injured.
The protests started about 1 p.m. when a group of about 500 students held a rally in front of Strong Hall and heard speeches by many persons, including Dr. Benjamin Stock.
The second demand was that "Chancellor Chalmers publicly denounce the Vietnam War and University involvement in it, and that be publically state his support of the above committee and its director in implementing its recommendations."
He said President Nixon had "no heart and no real morality at all," and that now was the crucial time to tell him "that he's going to be a monsterous and fantastic escalation of the war."
The chancellor did not accede to this demand.
Later, the group also requested that a university-wide convocation be held today to honor students and staff.
"...KU Endowment Association investments in corporations which profit from the war and domination of Third World countries."
Most of the demonstrations were peaceful. Skirrishms broke out in some areas, but the police and protesters from reads they tried to block. Police arrested 80 persons in Gainesville, Fla., and 50 in Boulder. Colo. Two persons were arrested after a protest in Albauquerque, N.M.
Vice-President Spiro T. O'Meara, appearing at a Republican gathering in Columbus, Ohio, said he was "particularly proud that Nixon and Nixon was to be part of his team."
About 2 p.m., the chancellor said he would meet with representatives of the group at 4 p.m. The students then left peacefully.
Dr. Spock said the war was now in its most perilous stage."
In his speech, Agnew said, "Your President will not permit this nation, nearly 200 years old, to be degraded or demoralized. He has done with this problem and he is going to solve it."
After the rally, the protesters moved into the chancellor's suite and presented them with a gift.
The Secret Service in Washington described the window damage as "a slight crack." Earlier reports had the object smashed or broke the window.
The Gainesville arrests came when police dispersed about 1,000 University of Florida students who blocked streets near the 23,000-student campus.
Senate Democrats Rip Nixon's Mining Move
Dist. Atty. Stan Johnson in Boulder said the arrests in the Colorado city came in the downtown area and at a highway barricade on the Denver-Boulder Turnpike. The officers were charged with obstructing a highway, riding or disturbance, he said.
"In a few minutes," said one witness, "hundreds more students showed up and joined the first 300." The students started attacking police officers who were chased by police, the witness said.
Jacob A. Malik, Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, told newsmen in New York that the congressman who condemn the new act of aggression." It was the first comment from a high Soviet official. The official's statement also called the decision "naked aggression."
Witnesses said police with riot gear and oops ordered about 300 students at a burrity.
"I am not able to predict Soviet reaction," Kissinger said. But he said the decision to mine the harbors would pose short-term difficulties" for Soviet leaders.
Most of those arrested were charged with disorderly conduct.
Police in Albuquerque used tear gas to
Kissinger, the White House foreign affairs adviser, told reporters that Nixon was still hopeful of meeting with Kremmlin and Putin during the planned Moscow summit talks.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon's decision to seal off North Vietnamese harbors with mines has touched off civil disturbances, raised a blast of Democratic criticism and brought increased reassurances for "a new era in East-West."
But the impact of scattering the undersea explosives to keep ships laden with military cargo from entering North Vietnamese ports probably won't be felt on the battlefield for at least three weeks. He house adviser Henry A. Kissinger said,
Whether Moscow would scrub the talks, it remained uncertain. Kremlin positioned itself in the back.
At 4 p.m. a large group of students met again in front of Strong. After meeting with the chancellor, representatives of the group told the crowd that the chancellor had called a 7:30 p.m. SenEx meeting to discuss the demands.
clear an estimated 500 protesters from an interstate highway. Police L.L. A. Powell said eight officers were at the scene of the shootings which occurred just after the freeeway was cleared. He said the source of the shotgun blast was not known but it is possible that he was leaving us in great doubt as to whether the shot was fired by a police officer."
Perhaps the strongest denunciation of the President's latest war decision came from Senate Democrats, who Tuesday disapproval of the action, and a huffing by some of them initiating impeachment proceedings against the commander in chief.
The victims were identified as Paul Smith, 23, and Carolyn Babb Coburn, 21, a columnist for the University of New Mexico student newspaper. Miss Coburn was reported in serious condition; Smith was treated and released.
About 3,000 antiwar protesters marched through Berkeley and the University of California campus, smashed windows and pelleted police with rocks and bottles. A waiter at a downtown restaurant was told in a coin when he tried to stop a rock-thrower.
The sit-in lasted about 45 minutes and ended when the officers, under the command of the Iowa Highway Patrol, moved in with night sticks on three sides and held the demonstration about 100 yards north of the highway. There were no known injuries.
In Colorado Springs, nearly 1,000 young people massed in the streets and stopped traffic in a peaceful protest. They later went to a nearby park for an antiwar rally.
In Iowa City, some 600 antiwar protestors and spectators tied up traffic for more than an hour Tuesday night, but about 120 officers with helmets and night sticks poked and prodded the demonstrators out of the major highway intersection.
Chanting "Peace now" and "We want University of Iowa President Willard Boyd," the demonstrators staged a sit-in at intersection of iowa 1, U.S. 6 and U.S. 218.
The sit-in began after a peaceful rally on the campus in protest of President Nixon's announcement of his latest moves in the Southeast Asian war.
The crowd demanded that the meeting be held at once, and about 5 p.m., they moved once again into the chancellor's office.
Gov. Robert Ray invoked a state of emergency at Iowa City Tuesday, calling the Emergency Operating Board into being at 1 t.m.
About 5:20, Traffic and Security officials announced that people would be subject to arrest in 15 minutes if they remained in the parking lot. And in about 15 minutes people began to drift in again, and the chancellor said that the SenxE meeting would begin as soon as the police arrived.
About 6 p.m., six representatives of the Haupchong Coalition entered and began rallies.
Ray's day gave tactical command to Col. Howard Miller, chief of the Iowa Highway Patrol, who assumed jurisdiction over traffic enforcing police and Johnson county sheriff's officers.
During the SenEx meeting, 100 to 125 protesters remained outside the chancellor's office. The group chanted, "We want you back." He heard progress reports of the meeting.
A group of about 50 people also formed at the rear entrance to the chancellor's office. Kidic, Viertemur Angu, OK. graduate, spike, spirit, said its purpose was to exert pressure on both points of entry, and to give them "a feeling that we mean what
He said the group was nonviolent and would not prevent people from getting into trouble.
During the evening the demonstrators supplied themselves with food and drink and several blankets, pillows, and sleeping bask issued in the early morning hours.
About 9 p.m., SenEx released its first statement, which said the chancellor had agreed to make Allen Field House availabie. It also discussed the situation in Indochina."
The statement also called for an emergency meeting of the University Senate for 12:15 p.m. today, at which the following recommendations would be made:
"The University Senate Executive Committee proposes to the University Senate that the present restrictions on withdrawals be waived so that any student desiring to withdraw passing in a course in which he is currently enrolled this semester may do so. The student need only sign a withdrawal slip and present it to the registrar for examination. If the student is scheduled. For examinations scheduled on Wednesday, 10 May, the withdrawal slip must be turned in to the registrar no later than Thursday, 11 May at 5:00 p.m."
"The University Senate Executive Committee also recommends to the University Senate that students be given the right to take an incomplete provided that notice is given to the instructor prior to the scheduled time of the examination. For students who did not take a scheduled final exam, they must have written notice of intention to take an incomplete course delivered to the instructor prior to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, 11 May.
"The University Senate Executive Committee reaffirms to the University Senate that all examinations will be conducted as scheduled."
One of the main points of discussion centered on the protesters' demand for a University Convocation instead of a campus open meeting.
The negotiators for the demonstration said a convocation would be better because any decisions made at such a meeting would be binding.
SenEx refused to make the meeting a convocation, and demonstrators wowed to stay in Strong Hall until that decision was reversed.
At 12.20 a.m. today, SenEx releases the following statement on the group's concern:
"We recognize the legitimacy of the concerns that have prompted some students to send SenEx to make a statement on the war in Southeast Asia.
"SenEx is not empowered to make statements relative to matters of national policy on behalf of the University. If there is any such body it is the University Senate.
"To further the open discussion of these pressing issues, SenEx encourages all members of the University community to attend the Campus Open Meeting to be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Allen Field House."
"The SenEx recognizes that there is a continuing need to keep the members of the University community and the general public informed of the research projects carried on at the University and the results obtained in these projects. We concern at that the research be conducted in confidence with objectives that are in the best public interest.
At 2:15 a.m., the following statement was issued:
"At the request of the chancellor SenEx has agreed to the appointment of ad hoc committee to investigate current research policies and procedures and review research and progress. In the appointment of the committee, which will include students from various academic custom, will consult with appropriate bodies concerned with this issue.
"The report of the findings and recommendations will be made public and will also be submitted to SenEx, the Faculty Senate Research Committee, the vicechancellor for research and graduate training the chancellor, for appropriate action."
About 4 a.m. the demonstrators were told that the administration and SenEx had decided they would be allowed to stay in the rotunda all night, but that any who remained in the chancellor's suite would be arrested.
The demonstrators then took a vote on whether or not to stay in the chancellor's suite. A small contingent of the democrats voted against it, staying in the office and risk arrest if the group voted to be in support of such a plan. This contingent also agreed that if the whole group voted to remain outside the democrats' suite, they would remain outside also.
A show of hands was taken, and the demonstrators decided that those in favor of staying outside had a majority. All of the demonstrators then moved into the rotunda. As of 4:30 a.m. no arrests had been made and the crowd remained peaceful.
The demonstrators left the chancellor's suite. They were followed shortly thereafter by the members of SenEx.Harry Buchholz, director of the physical plant, and the office was closed, and prevented reporters from talking to the chancellor.
Fred Howard, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said 10 KBI agents were on hand in Lawrence. Col. William Albott, director of the Highway Patrol, was also in the chancellor's suite at various times during the meeting. He no units of the Highway Patrol had been ordered into the Lawrence area.
Kanan Photo by FRANK VARNEY
Haiphong Coalition Members Assert Their Demands . Protesters gathered in Strong to seek action.