THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No. 8
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1969
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Republicans to vote
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans choose a new leader today to succeed the late Sen. Everett M. Dirksen. The election between Sens. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Howard H. Baker Jr., of Tennessee was a tossup, but impartial observers hesitantly gave Scott an edge.
South Koreans sink boat
SEOUL—A South Korean Navy destroyer sank a 50-ton North Korean gunboat in a four-hour gunbattle on rainswept seas off the southwestern coast early today.
Apparently the high-speed gunboat was on a mission to put Communist spies ashore as a similar boat tried to do Aug. 21. That attempt also ended in failure.
Navy halts VC at river
SAIGON—U.S. Navy patrol boats for the third successive night have caught Communist troops fording the Saigon River, this time killing 14 guerrillas, military spokesmen said today.
It brought to 56 the number of Viet Cong or North Vietnamese troops slain while crossing the river 33 miles northwest of Saigon.
Israel seeks weapons
JERUSALEM—Israeli Premier Golda Meir left for the United States today to ask President Nixon for more American weapons, including 105 warplanes, and the money to pay for them.
Gunfire ends rally
MEXICO CITY (UPI)—Automatic weapons fire broke out Tuesday night around a university where students were holding a rally to mark the anniversary of a student-police gunbattle last fall. Officials denied there was any shooting.
"That's an outright lie," said a high-ranking spokesman for the federal government. "There were no shots fired at all, of any kind. Only tear gas and blows were used to disperse the crowd."
But UPI reporter Ramon Al-
manza on the rally at the National Polytechnical Institute, said he heard "hundreds of rounds" of automatic weapons fire.
Fleeing students told Almanza that police charged their ranks with submachine guns blazing, hitting 20 or more students. And residents of the street fronting the area where the demonstration was held, said they also heard submachine gun fire and saw at least two youths being helped away by friends, bleeding heavily
The Ruben Lenero Emergency
Hospital, run by city officials said they had two injured youths, both 21 years of age, from the demonstrations, but added that they were suffering only from being beaten by fists and clubs.
The government spokesman said that there "may have been some arrests."
Some of the students told newsmen the gunfire came from two cars which raced past, but said they could not identify the cars as police vehicles.
Peaceful protests not in danger of injunction
By CASS SEXON Kansan Staff Writer
The injunction that resulted from disruption of the ROTC review last spring has no bearing on peaceful demonstration or protest, said Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
Chalmers spoke in reference to the moratorium scheduled for Oct. 15. He said the injunction applied to the "arena of disruption," and was not intended to halt student protest or participation in rallies and demonstrations.
The moratorium calls for antiwar rallies, the reading of lists of war dead and demonstrations against the war. Students and faculty are urged not to attend or teach classes.
Chalmers said that to his knowledge the University had no policy concerning class attendance, and that regulation of attendance was left to the discretion of the instructor.
"Participation in the moratorium is the individual choice of the student or instructor." he said.
Chalmers was supported in his interpretation of the injunction by William Balfour, dean of student affairs, and Frank R. Gray, judge of the district court.
"Peaceful demonstrations are fine," said Balfour. A person prosecuted under the injunction for disruption of the University, however, would be placed under contempt of court, he added.
A charge of contempt of court would be drastic for participation
in a demonstration, he said. The injunction would not be used against student protest in a peaceful manner, Balfour said.
Gray said the injunction had never been directed at any peaceful demonstration.
Chalmerns said a resolution in favor of the moratorium by the Student Senate would be unwise if it did not represent the majority of the student body.
To pass a resolution supporting the moratorium, when possibly only a few hundred students will choose to participate, would place the Senate in a precarious position, he said.
A bill for the resolution to support the moratorium will be introduced for discussion during the
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Shultz defends controversial action
By HOWARD PANKRATZ Kansan Staff Writer
Reynolds Shultz, the controversial state senator from Lawrence who recently forced the release of closed University records, sees the score in his game with the KU administration as "one-to-one."
The senator scored his point when his Federal and State Affairs Committee forced the administration to turn over the names of 21 students disciplined last spring following private hearings on their alleged involvement in the May 9 disruption of the Chancellor's ROTC Review. The administration previously had refused to make the names public.
Shultz said he regrets his action had to take place.
"It is not the function of the state legislature to be a watchdog over college campuses, the Board of Regents carries out that responsibility. I never want to see the state legislature become involved outside their proper sphere. I never want them to
dictate to the University," Shultz said.
He said he felt the disruption last semester of the Chancellor's ROTC Review, the law officer's meeting and the student elections, with only negligible response from the administration, presented one of the few instances where such intervention was legitimate.
The senator listed four factors which made legislative action necessary. First, he said the law had been broken. He said if what the students did at the ROTC Review had been done in any downtown area of any city in the country, their actions would have been unlawful.
Secondly, he said although this did not take place downtown, it was still unlawful because it occurred on state property.
"They broke the trespassing statute, they destroyed state property and they disregarded a reasonable request to disperse. Anywhere else they would've been charged in a probate or
Thirdly, he said the University had the right to give the students a private hearing, but once the hearing was completed, the names of the students and their penalties had to be made public.
district court for those offenses," Shultz said.
"The American legal system allows private hearings but under our judicial setup, the final outcome becomes a matter of public record," he said.
Finally, Shultz said, the inaction by KU officials greatly aggravated an already serious condition.
"If the University had stepped in, if they had had the guts to stand up and be counted, this regrettable mess and our action would not have come about."
He said he feels the University legally had the right to act and had all the power it needed to deal with the problem, but lacked the initiative or the willingness to prosecute.
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Photo courtesy of The Topeka Daily Capital Reynolds Shultz