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'Neither rain, nor sleet...'
Despite the rain which soaked the area Wednesday campus police were not deterred from duty. Illegal parking still brought traffic tickets for unlucky students.
80th Year, No.34
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Thursday, Oct. 30, 1969
Court ruling aims at desegregation
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court ordered the immediate desegregation of 30 Mississippi public school districts Wednesday, paving the way for similar action wherever dual school systems exist.
The high court's action dismissed the Nixon Administration's pleas for a three-month reprieve to the Mississippi districts in carrying out federal desegregation plans.
"Continued operation of segregated schools under a standard of allowing 'all deliberate speed' for desegregation is no longer constitutionally permissible," the court said in its two-page, unsigned order. No vote was given.
In the first opinion handed down since Warren E. Burger succeeded Earl Warren as Chief Justice, the court again laid to rest its 1955 guideline of "all deliberate speed" for abolishing dual school systems.
"Under explicit holdings of this court the obligation of every school district is to terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter only unitary schools."
Although the court's decision applied only to Mississippi, in practical effect it can be applied throughout the nation since the ruling can be cited as a precedent in similar court cases in other states.
The Justice Department had made a determined effort to get a
reprieve for the Mississippi districts. Federal desegregation plans were withdrawn in August and promised for resubmission by Dec. 1, with the approval of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Although little more than a month remained before the government was obligated to act anyway, the high court's decision Wednesday to order desegregation immediately served notice that 15 years after its initial decision outlawing school desegregation, it had grown impatient with delays.
The Justice Department had argued throughout that its original plans for the 30 Mississippi districts were hastily drawn and would have resulted in chaos if
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Outbursts bring retaliation
Seale shackled to courtroom chair
CHICAGO (UPI)—Black Panther leader Bobby Seale was gagged, handcuffed and shackled to a chair in a federal courtroom Wednesday after he screamed epithets at the judge and prosecutors and fought with U.S. marshals who sought to restrain him.
U. S. District Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman ordered Seale chained and handcuffed to a folding chair and a cotton gag taped across his mouth when the defendant persisted in violent outbursts at the trial of the "Chicago Eight."
Hoffman also warned Seale's seven codefendants he was ready
to revoke their bail and order them jailed if they persisted in defying the court.
Seale, furious at the restraints, rattled his chains loudly and shouted in muffled tones through the gag as testimony continued at a shortened afternoon session.
Defense attorney William Kunstler, who moved unsuccessfully for removal of the gag and shackles, told Hoffman the seven other defendants would "not let their liberty stand in the way of Bobby Seale's constitutional rights."
But there was no repetition of morning incidents in which David
Education program 'good one,' says dean
By IRENE ECONOMUS Kansan Staff Writer
The eight men are on trial before Hoffman on charges of conspiring to incite the riots that swept Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Dale P. Scannell, the new dean of the School of Education, is no stranger to KU although he came here from the University of Iowa.
Scannell previously served on the KU faculty from 1959 to 1967, as director of the Bureau of Educational Research Service and as associate dean of the Graduate School. He left in 1967 and became the director of the University Evaluation and Examination Service at the University of Iowa.
Dellinger, one of the defendants, tried to intervene physically when marshals moved to restrain Seale. And Hoffman did not renew his threat to jail Seale's codefendants during the afternoon session.
Since Scannell was famished with KU's School of Education he said that he knew the program was a good one and that drastic changes were not necessary.
Scannell's primary goal is a broader and more detailed review of the direction in which the School of Education is headed.
One change that Scannell advocates is the present method of training student teachers.
"I agree with the elementary and secondary faculty of the school that we need to give prospective teachers more and earlier contact with children and classroom teaching situations," Scannell said.
The present program in most schools, he said, does not "immerse" the student in the teaching profession until he is a senior. A student should be given earlier exposure to a teaching situation in order to allow him adequate time to discover if he really wants to be involved in the teaching profession, Scannell said.
Seale was warned Tuesday and again Wednesday he would be silenced and restrained if he persisted in upbraiding prosecutors and the judge and struggling with the marshals in his insistence to act as his own attorney.
To help the student better evaluate the teaching profession, Scannell proposes more observation through closed circuit television of classroom situations and more teacher aid programs.
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He turned Wednesday morning's session into pandemonium, screaming "rotten, racist pig" at a prosecutor and struggling with marshals who tried to keep him in his chair.
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Docking fires attorney
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
TOPEKA—Robert Ochs, fired Wednesday as assistant pardon and extradition attorney for Kansas, was scheduled to release a statement today on his dismissal.
Gov. Robert B. Docking said Ochs was fired because he failed to make "timely and voluntary disclosure of information" concerning alleged violations by an appointed state official.
Lottery may be stalled
WASHINGTON—President Nixon's drive for draft lottery legislation is perilously close to being stalled, the possible victim of a larger battle over whether Congress should consider wholesale revision of the Selective Service law this year or next.
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Curling up with a good book...or something
When the hustle and bustle of life on Mount Oread gets to be too much, there's no place like the Kansas Union for a short snooze.