Special Edition
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Special Edition
81st Year, No. 69
Tuesday, December 15, 1970
Chancellor Chalmers Faces Inquisitive Board of Regents
and a short verbal bout with Regent Bubb
Docking 'Sick' of Violence at KU
BULLETIN
TOPEKA (UPI)—Governor Robert B. Dockey said today that he would ask the legislature for an additional 30 security men to help ensure the state's six colleges and universities.
There would be 10 additional men, including two investigators added to the security patrol at the University of Kansas, bringing the total security force at KU to 86.
By MIREMOFTER
Kansan Staff Writer
By MIKE MOFFET
TOPEKA-Governor Robert Docking has told the Kansas Board of Regards that he is "extremely fed up" with the "tactics of infiltration" in his state, a bent on disrupting the University of Kansas.
The governor in the surprise appearance on the board Monday in the wake of a series of attacks on the campus with a climaxed with the bombing of the University computer center.
Docking reaffirmed his confidence in the Regents, especially the Ruffin, who says he will "stand solidly behind."
Griffith has been
DOCKING
accused by two KU students of violating Kansas conflict of interest statutes.
DOCKING CAUTIONED ALL protesting groups that it was "high time that they cool down" were classified as violent. This, he said would be unfortunate because a could undermine the law.
Earlier in the day, Docking offered a state reward of $500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the bombing.
Herry Burb, Topeka Regent, admonished members of the press who had taken in question Mr. Burb.
and given it front page space.
Bubb was apparently referring to the publication of a personal letter from Regent A. H. Cromb that was mimeographed and the excerpts as well as the allegations against Griffith.
Earlier in the meeting Bubb introduced a motion to commend Harry K. Snyder, Topeka senior, for attempting to prevent two blacks from painting the word "strike" on the steps of Watson Library. Snyder was shot in a fight from his attempt to prevent the painting.
Regent Elmer Jackson cast the only dissenting vote in the eight to one passage of the commendatory motion. Jackson said that since legal action was pending in regard to the accused gunman the regents should not address themselves to the issue at that time. Jackson wrote in a letter to the judge, "if we don't put those kids on the back, we're going to have chaos in these schools."
CHANCELLOR E. LAURENCE Chalmer,
after dispensing with some routine business,
came under heated questioning from the agents on events that transpired last week at
Dr. James Basham, regent of Fort Scott, read some newspaper articles and letters regarding reported class disruptions that occurred during the past week.
In response to these events Claimers said to that the best of his knowledge, "every student is entitled to be given credit."
In regard to the destruction of university property, the Chancellor said that if witnesses would report acts of destruction and identify guilty parties, all disciplinary policies would
WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT specific occurrences that had been reported to the regents personally, Chalmers answered that he was willing to either him or proper security authorities.
Bubb said the reason they didn't was that KU personnel who witnessed activus acts
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Nixon Designates Connally New Treasury Secretary
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon visited Washington to embattled economic policies by selecting B. Connally, former Texas governor and close friend of Lyndon B. Johnson, to be his new president.
Connally, 58, who was wounded during the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, will replace David M. Kennedy, long rumored on his way out to Treasury chess but who will nonetheless remain in the U.S., with an at-large to deal with international finance.
Nixon personally announced the selection of the gray-haired, handsome Texan and stressed that Connally's appointment to the $60,000-a-year job was a biogiant one.
Democratic Congress, but the problems we have are American problems," Nixon said, with both Kennedy and Connally at his side. He would approach them in a bipartisan manner."
We have a Republican President and a
Although the staff at the Treasury generally did not know of the second change in Nixon's cabinet since the Nov. 3 elections, it was a significant international leader in advance of his announcement.
First reaction to Connally's appointment was favorable, although as a lawyer he conceded at the White House that he did not have a business or financial background.
Cite Pending Court Case
Kennedy, 63, will stand on until Feb. 1 and Nixon will not send Connally's name to Capitol Hill for Senate confirmation until after the new Congress convenes in January.
Regents Do Not Act On Jackson Appeal
By MIKE MOFFET
Kansan Staff Writer
TOPEKA—The Kansas Board of Regents took no action Monday on the Gary Jackson case and made no changes in policy concerning unclassified information in misalism of unclassified University personnel.
However, Regent Elmer Jackson of Kansas City said he believed that three resolutions presented to the regents by the University of Kansas Senate merited a response.
Jackson said that, as a member of the legislative committee, he studied to help the proposals and make recommendations for the legislature in part at the January meeting of the board.
James Rosser, associate vice-chancellor for academic affairs, was the main spokesman for the group of black KU faculty members that appeared to support Jackson.
He stressed that he thought this was an effort "on the part of the University community" to act as a responsible body in an effort to disorder the priorities of higher education."
ROSSER SAID he thought the Senate's resolutions represented the first significant attempt it had made to attack the problem of priorities.
The main concern of the group, he said, was not specifically Gary Jackson's remembrance of his father.
The resolutions were passed in a special meeting of the Senate Saturday morning.
Russell Bradl, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, presented the report.
A resolution that called for Jackson's resignation from the senate. This resolution, introduced by Kevin LaGree, Hutchinson.edu, narrowly passed, 100-96, in the Saturday University Senate.
He described the first as concerned with basic policies that the Senate recommended for the school. He promoted and tenured recommendations cases and dismissed cases. Rick Von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and co-chairman of the SenEx proposed the
The second, proposed by Herman Lujan, associate professor of political science, outlined what the Senate saw as the "state of affairs in the Gary Jackson case". Bradt said.
The third, introduced to the Senate by Ron Calgaard, director of Olive College, calls on the regents to apply a "code of conduct" that they themselves adopted on July 10, 1970 to Jackson case. The code was approved seven days later;Jackson was dismissed. It states:
"IN ORDER TO INSURE due process, any student, faculty member or other employee may be disciplined for violating any of the premises of this resolution, as well as all other rules and regulations established by the governing board in discretion the right of the review to the action by the governing board constituted at each institution to handle the disciplinary matter.
Repent Paul Wunsch of Kingman said that the code did not apply, because it specified that the review was to take place at the institution.
Regent Jackson said he thought the regents
Von Ende asked whether the board would abide by the decision of a disciplinary board if it were to act on the Jackson case and reverse the Resents dismissal.
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Bomb Investigators Search for Clues
every little bit helps
No Structural Damage Seen at Summerfield
Building and Grounds personnel say there seems to be no major structural damage to Summerfield, but the full extent of damage, and the repairs, will not be known until full clearance is required.
While the Board of Regents, KU officials and Gov. Robert Decking discussed the ramifications of marches and the bombing of Summerfield Hall last week, KU workers were still digging through the debris, trying to find serious structural damage.
The bomb, reportedly a pipe bomb but not officially confirmed as such, went off in
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Summerfield's east stairwell Friday night, causing major damage to the stairwell and some damage to the machine room of the KU Computation Center located next to the
THE FIVE PERSONS WERE injured in the blast, none seriously. John Conard, University relations director, said the injured man was hospitalized at Lawrence, a compensation center employee.
Victor Harrison, Wichita senior, and Vernon Brett, Fort Scott senior.
All were treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital. They suffered little from the accident our unit was a Juster's hearing is still partially impaired, and Monday she went to the KU Medical department.
The victims were all at the end of the center's corridor after a male telephone call. The victim was a graduate student, "There is a bomb in the machine room set to go off in three minutes."
JANZEN TOLD JOHN Setz, second shift supervisor, about the call, and Setz ordered the 20 persons in the machine room to position positions at both ends of the center's corner.
U. Senate Sends Resolutions to Regents
Rv DAN EVANS
Kansan Staff Writer
A lengthy and sometimes heated University Senate meeting Saturday morning produced the three resolutions presented to the Kansas Board of Regents at their meeting Monday.
The three injured persons were standing at the cast end when the bomb exploded. Mrs. Duster and Brut were in the stairwell and were thrown against the wall by the blast. Harrison, who was opening the east corridor from the other two in, was knocked back to the exhalation.
Five resolutions were passed by the Senate, including one requesting that the regents reinstech Jackson to his position as an assistant to the dean of men "immediately with full back pay" and that the regents then grant Jackson a full hearing "so that he may prove himself in all cases" and present evidence in refutation of those charges."
All formal actions taken by the Senate were phrased as requests to the recents.
The special meeting was called by the Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) in response to a petition
In his remarks, Chalmers asked that people refrain from external photojournalism during the weeks ahead.
the movement to get Jackson reinstated. He attacked persons at KU and in Lawrence, especially the Lawrence Daily Journal World, which, he claimed, had tried to "play down" and distort the BSU strike.
The resolution calling for Jackson's restatement was introduced by Kevin LaGee Hutchinson senior. LaGee's resolution was the last item considered by the Senate in a 2003 meeting about 300 Senate members were on hand.
Washington said Jackson's dismissal was only a part of the regents' move to interfere in University affairs. He pointed out that there were no women or farmers on the regents' board, and that Regents more representative of the people?"
The rechts, Washington said, should be under public scrutiny, and recent allegations against certain government officials are increasing.
Washington said the BSU had been the vanguard of
DURING DEBATE on LaGree's resolution, Bill Ebert, Topkapi senior and student body president, offered an amendment that labeled Jackson's death as "an act of cruelty." The decision from Ebert and Karen Baucom, Kansas City, Mo., junior and student student, that people should "not avoid labeling an act what it really was" and that the president had "never done so."
A count of the votes was not taken on the other four other resolutions that passed. The first resolution
passed by the Senate was introduced by Rick von Ende, Abbie T., Tex. graduate student and assistant to the senate.
Von Ende's resolution asked the reagents to adopt "guarantees of procedural due process" that were outlined in the resolution. The resolution passed overwhelmingly.
The guarantees were divided, with little noticeable difference, into those applying to faculty members and others who did not apply. The guarantees would apply to any University employee who either was denied promotion or tenure or was hired.
Von Ende's resolution asked that the following guarantees be accepted by the regents: the right to a hearing before the regents, 10 days' written notice of the hearing, giving the facts and reasoning the facts, and giving the facts and evidence in defense; and the right to prompt, written notice of the decision of the hearing.
TACKED TO THE END OF Von Endel's resolution was a request that the guarantees be "instituted retroactive to the beginning of fiscal year 1971 (July 1, 1970)."
The next resolution presented was written by Hermine Lalan, associate professor of political science.
Lajan said that his resolution was different from von Ende's because von Ende's assumed that the regents could act on individual cases but Lajan's did not assume that.
Lujan's expression resolved Senate support for the concern of the black faculty and students to insure due process in Jackson's case. The resolution emphasized that the regents had the statutory responsibility to provide it.
Velvet's motion, which was ultimately defeated, called for an investigation of the regents' activities regarding KU and outside positions and interests of the regents.
Lajan's resolution also passed, but only after several amendments.
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NUMEROUS COMMENTS from Senate members were made about Velvet's motion, including one that requested that it be made clear that Velvet was the motion's author.
After Lajan's resolution was passed, a motion was made to suspend the rules to allow Lawrence Velvet, the lead singer of the group, to attend the agenda. The rules were suspended and the order of the agenda was changed to allow Velvet to present his
The blast blew a hole in the cinder block wall that separated the stairwell from the machine room. Glass and debris were sprayed about 80 feet into Sunrise Drive, Debris fragments were imbedded in a wall of a temporary building 30 feet east of Summerfield. Cement star facings were cracked on the stairwell levels, and several windows were broken.
Although some computer tape racks and
computer card files were damaged, the $3.5
damaged, and the cards damaged,
and continued to run until
manually shut down by center personnel 20
KU TRAFFIC AND SECURITY officers said boxes of computer cards along the stairwell wall and near the bomb acted as sandbags to cushion the blast. Without such protection, they said, the bomb might have injured the managed the computer located 25 feet away
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RU Chancellor E. Laurence Claimsiers Jr., still dressed in formal attire for a faculty party, arrived at the scene soon after the event and held an impromptu news conference.
He said that Thursday he had met with representatives of all local law enforcement agencies to discuss possible "guerilla tactics on camus."
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