Student rights forum topic
Kent Frizzell, Kanss attorney general, and six of his assistant attorney generalals talked with students and professors Thursday night about the University's legal relationship to the state.
They talked at a forum which represented the first of a series of five to be held this year. The forum was at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room. Those assistants with Frizzell were Lance Burr, Edward Collister, Richard Foth, Richard Seaton, Ernest Ballweg and Richard Havse.
Frizzell opened the forum by saying he did not think those in
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the state legislature understood what was going on on campus, and they misinterpret what they hear by word of mouth.
"We'll bring legislators here if you folks show the desire," said Frizzell.
Frizzell said he wanted to talk about the University's legal relationship to the state including the legal rights of students, administrators and teachers. It concerned the meaning of the First and Fourteenth Amendmentsto each of these groups.
His office served in an advisory capacity with former Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe last year in the hearings after the ROTC demonstration, Frizzell said. It also aided in the formulation of the guidelines set up by the Board of Regents for future student demonstrations.
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the reasons of campus unrest, said Frizzell, "but we were there to inform everyone of his civil rights. We showed students that 'law and order' protects their rights as much as anyone else's."
Frizzell's assistants, Ballweg and Burr lightened the beginning of the forum by breaking out a guitar an singing.
This was to "demonstrate the dissent within the office," they said.
They sang an original song about "what this country needs is another movie star." They included such suggestions as "put politics back where it belongs—on the amusement page." They advised, "Senator Shultz you better get back in the chase 'cause Shirley Temple is in that race."
The Student Senate and the Board of Regents were among more significant issues discussed as the serious questioning began.
Foth said under the Kansas law, the Board of Regents were charged with running the University, but the Student Senate can handle certain things.
By sanctioning the Senate Code, the Board of Regents allows the Senate to make some laws, Frizzell said. Every Rule the Senate made would have to be examined to determine the instances the Senate had actually exceeded its authority, he said.
Frizzell said later he applauded those who marched in the moratorium. He could approve of protest and dissent, he said as long as it was within the rights granted by the First Amendment, but arson and violence could not be carried on under this right.
Those who protest by true civil disobedience means, he said, were willing to break the law, but not to breach the peace.
Of the seven attorney generals at the forum, five said they thought the voting age should be lowered to 18.
"There are two reasons for this," said one. "One is the boys are fighting in Vietnam and the
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other is kids are more educated today."
On the war in Vietnam, Frizzell said he agrees with Nixon's policies, but this did not mean Frizzell was right or wrong, he said.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — The Indians invaded Alcatraz today for the second time within two weeks. This time they said they were there to stay.
Frizzell said the war was a mistake to begin with, but we were there now and American boys were dying there. He believed Nixon was trying to get out.
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