War protest 'round-up'
Special to the Kansan
University and college students across Kansas and Missouri observed the national war moratorium Wednesday with prayer vigils, parades, silent protests, and classroom discussion.
No disorders of any kind were reported although a camera-carrying agent of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation was among 400 persons who attended a peaceful service on the front steps of the State House at Topeka. While local ministers, officials and businessmen read the names of 475 Kansans killed in Vietnam, agent Jack Williams was seen photographing readers and spectators with a movie camera and a still camera.
At Kansas State University, more than 1,000 students and faculty members, marching ten abreast in a column that filled two city blocks, staged a peace march to the downtown area. Many wore black arm bands embossed with Vietnam casualty figures.
At Wichita State University, a mid-morning rally drew at least 1,000 persons. Police directed traffic around the crowd, most of whom wore black arm bands. Arm bands were distributed during speeches at the rally.
At Fort Hays State College, classes discussed the war and a few students wearing arm bands handed out leaflets presenting statistics and history of the Vietnam war. At Pittsburg State some students wore black arm bands but there was no noticeable boycott of classes and no disruption of schedules.
Lyle Seymour, state commander of the Kansas American Legion, issued a statement as the observance began, deploring the moratorium.
"This protest, while not wholly
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unexpected, is a deplorable situation," he said.
At Bethel College, Newton, students began the tolling of a bell which is to sound every four seconds, 12 hours a day through Saturday, each peal denoting the death of an American killed in the Vietnam fighting.
On Saturday the Bethel Peace Club planned to march 25 miles to Wichita to join in observances there.
In the Kansas City area, although classes were not dismissed, most colleges scheduled speeches and group discussions. Early in the day, junior college students carried signs and marched peacefully to the Wyandotte County Court House where a public demonstration took place.
Penn Valley Community College and Rockhurst College students joined the University of Missouri—Kansas City (UMKC) faculty and student body in peaceful demonstrations and a panel discussion held on the UMKC campus.
The UMKC panel included: The Rev. Phillip Lawson, pastor of the Methodist Inner City Parish; William Hanney, a former correspondent for the military publication Stars and Stripes; and Sister JoAnne Malone, a participant in a demonstration against the Dow Chemical.
The Longview campus of Metropolitan Junior College—Kansas City (Mo.) had an assembly with State Rep. Ray James and Marcus Braun of the Heart of America Conservation Club among the featured speakers.
Discussion and lectures by the faculty of William Jewell were culminated at 7 p.m. with a rally at the quadrangle.
At Columbia, the University of Missouri, Stephens College and Christian College students observed the Vietnam moratorium Wednesday with seminars, rallies and peaceful marches.
MU, where "classes as usual" were decreed and deans were instructed to report faculty members deviating from regular schedules, was relatively quiet.
During the morning hours students in groups of five to ten picketed classroom buildings, urging students to boycott classes, but it appeared that most students attended classes as usual.
Reports that some faculty members defied the administration to cancel class sessions could not be confirmed.
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It was followed by noon rallies at the university and at the Stephens chapel, preceding a march from the two campuses to the federal building in downtown Columbia. The downtown rally featured more speeches and discussions.
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Capping the day's observance were evening events including a peace liturgy and supper at Newman Center and a memorial service for the dead, conducted by three Columbia ministers at the university's famed "columns."
At Lincoln University in Jefferson City about 150 persons participated in a protest demonstration. The group gathered on the university quadrangle, then marched silently by two to Jason Gymnasium, following a black coffin carried on the shoulders of six students.
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