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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Publish or Perish?
Wednesday, December 9, 1970
81st Year. No.66
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Kansan Staff Photo by STEVE FRITZ
Strikers March to Strong Hall
... to promote the strike to reinstate Gary Jackson
Eighty Strikers March
By DAN EVANS Kansan Staff Writer
Strikers marched Tuesday afternoon from the front of Strong Hall to the Kansas Union and through several other campus buildings which easily disbanded about an hour after they began.
The march, which went much of the way down the middle of Jayhawk Boulevard began shortly after noon when a group of about 30 blacks gathered in front of Strong Street. They held up about 5 white protesters entered the line when it startled moving east toward the Union
By the end of the march, an estimated 80 people were participating.
The trek was staged to promote a strike by the Blue Student Union against KU and the University of Kentucky, who also struck to get Gary Jackson, first year law student from Topeka, inspired to his job as assistant to the dean of men. The Kansas State University team went to July, when he bought a large amount of ammunition the day after Rick Erickson began a series of disturbances begin in Lawrenz.
Ron Washington, second year law student from Chicago and chairman of the BSU, announced at a rally Monday afternoon that black students at KU would strike until the university reinstated or the regents gave an "adequate" explanation of why Jackson was fired.
The marchers first left Strong and went to the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road. There, they turned started back toward Strong.
When they headed back to Strong, the marchers walked single file down the middle
At Strong, the group reverses its direction again and marched to the Union. From the
See STRIKERS Page 12
White Rally Fails to Gain Support for Student Strike
By JOHN GAGE
Kansan Staff Writer
A Tuesday night rally of 100 predominantly white supporters of the strike to reinstate竿竿 the previously stated purpose of the tactics to draw white students into the strike, resulting only in a decision to coordinate efforts with those of the Black Student Union.
Ron Washington, Chicago second-year law student and chairman of the BSU, asked supporters of the strike to meet today at 9:00 a.m. for p.m. in front of Strong Hall
The meeting, held at 7:30 in Dyce Auditorium, was characterized by a lack of enthusiasm on the part of the audience and the lack of attention given to those present indicated by a show of hands.
Several persons questioned the effectiveness of the strike, expressing little confidence that the strike would draw large numbers or accomplish concrete results.
that they would pick tomorrow, and many participants indicated that they had attended the meeting in order to become better informa- tion on the strike situation.
To Consider Jackson Case
Most were in agreement with this evaluation, but justified the strike as a reward for adherence to the "tyramid" of the Board of Regents and to be followed next spring by increasingly effective measures such as an economic fee, a boycott and further demonstrations.
Washington criticized whites as verbally supporting the battle but unwilling to take any action.
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SenEx Calls Meeting For University Senate
By MIKE MOFFETT and DICK HAY Kansan Staff Writers
The University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) has called for a special University Senate meeting to be held at 9 a.m. Saturday. The move came Tuesday afternoon in response to a petition signed by more than 50 members of the University Senate
Also on Tuesday afternoon, about 150 female students to support the bank's faculty' and students' attirement for Gary Dean Jackson, who was dismissed from the Dean of Men's staff last week.
The vote was taken at an impropruent faculty meeting called by the University's black faculty members and staff. The faculty has been warned, however, by Francis Clerick vice-chairman for academic affairs, that he will not present a class without a valid reason will lose his position.
In the statement released by SenEx, the order of business for Saturday's meeting was specified as "consideration of the ramification of the personnel case currently under litigation." This refers to Jackson's dismissal.
Several other statements were included in the SonEx release. These were denouncements of the "personal violence," the violations of regulations against unauthorized equipment, and the arrests on the campus and the "many arrests" on the campus that defaced and damaged University buildings.
Of the violence the statement said, "We should hope that those responsible would make restitution or amends without official action."
The University Faculty resolution stated that, "We as faculty members of the
The problem of "threats to the orderly process of the University for fulfilling its educational mission" was also considered in the statement.
Finally, the statement reaffirmed the University's "dedication . . . to the basic principles of fairness, due process and academic freedom."
Jackson was fired last summer by the Board of Regents for allegedly purchasing ammunition during the July conflict. Black faculty members have said they would not politicize as many as possible, would politicize as many as possible, and would teach i-techs and walk in picket lilies.
John Conard, director of university relations, said that 150 faculty members passed the resolution supporting the efforts of the community to get Jackson reinstated.
But Heller told a council of deans meeting Monday, "If a faculty member deliberately and for other educational reasons fails to meet a class, such action must be considered tantamount to the faculty member placing himself on leave of absence without pay."
See SENEX Page 12
Fireman Investigates Smoke
. . . extension building fire broke out early Tuesday night
Small Fires Hit Campus
By DAN EVANS
Kansan Staff Writer
Fires broke out on the University of Kansas campus Tuesday at Rest Hall and the University Extension building. Both caused minor damages and no one was injured.
The fire in Strong was reported to the Lawrence Fire Department at 2:09 p.m. The Strong fire occurred in two trash cans in the second floor men's restroom.
The University Extension fire was reported at 7:56 p.m. and was confined to a corner conference room on the top floor of the building.
According to Captain Donald Knight of the Lawrence Fire Department, the origin of both is from the 18th century.
Knight had no estimate on the amount of damage at Strong, but said there was ap-
See FIRES Page 12
Pollution and Expansion Problems Challenge City
--sewage before the effluent is pumped into the river,
Pollution Potential Danger for City
--sewage before the effluent is pumped into the river,
This is the third in a series of Lawrence in the '78s, a series that the Kansas hopes will help to clear some of the clouds of misunderstanding that separate KU from the city. The article will continue through this week.
By MARY J. THUM
Kansan News Editor
Serious pollution in a medium-sized midwestern town like Lawrence may seem unlikely. Nevertheless, several sources of pollution threaten the Lawrence environment.
The Kansas River is threatened by industrial and human wastes dumped into it after varying amounts of treatment. Organic wastes, like cellulose from the E. I.d. Dupont plant, are decimish in Shawnee County and the Lawrence Company at the north end of New Hampshire Street are threats because they use up oxygen dissolved in the water as they decompose. If the water is added to the water, the oxygen level may do so low that the water in the water suffocate.
The city's human wastes, dyes from the Hammark Cards Company, organic wastes from the Greenwood Cleaning plant and wastes from the All Star Dairy into the Kansas River after primary treatment at the Lawrence Swamp Treatment Plant. The waste of solid waste is allowed to settle out of the
This treatment cannot remove all organic materials from the water, but the amount of oxygen required to decompose what materials remain may be reduced at times by ammonia or other gases. At other times, when the system is heavily taxed by an unusually large amount of waste, the reduction may be much smaller. The solid materials removed from the effluent are recycled—without oxygen-by microbes at the treatment plant and given as fertilizer.
Waste water from DuPont and the paper company receives primary treatment at each plant before being pumped into the river. Even after this treatment, the Lawrence River load roughly equal to the raw sewage produced by a community of 3,400 people, according to state health department and company estimates. The DuPont plant's load, equivalent to the raw sewage equivalent to the raw sewage of a community of 16,500. DuPont is planning a secondary
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Kansas Staff Photo by MIKE RADENCICH
Co-op's Brownish Smoke Contains Poison Gases
... company has been working on pollution control
Group Plans City's Development
The commission was created in the hope of avoiding many of the problems now appearing in many urban areas across the country, where they can go up and blend into the cities they surround.
"We have to look down the road 20 years," Ron Short, Lawrence planning director, said in a recent interview. "We can see the patrol cars fighting it, we have to be working with it."
By CHRIS SEITZ Kansan Writer
Short said the Perry Reservoir area in a neighboring county was an example of the problem the commission hoped to avoid. Housing developments around the reservoir were under central planning authority, many without supplies, roads or waste disposal facilities.
Anticipation of future problems before they can occur is the main purpose of Lawrence's joint venture with Douglas County, the Douglas County Planning Commission.
"Many of their problems won't show up yet
for several years, when their populations are
down."
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission was formed to resolve conflicts in jurisdiction between the city and county governments, and to coordinate development and zoning within an area which
A parallel situation is now developing in the Lawrence area with the construction of the building at the corner, said, but in this case an attempt to make allowances for the future needs of a project has been made.
takes in Lawrence and the Clinton Reservoir area.
"By state regulations," Short said, "we allow legally lawful residents to own land. Lawyers will be used only 20 per cent of the land. This way we'll have high-quality planning and development of a smaller community."
The commission arrived at the dimensions of this area by studying probable growth trajectories to the reservoir and by channeling growth, to increase its and other undesirable land. The commission will also see that sewage disposal areas are suitable to soil types on land being developed.
Short said such regulations had not been set up when the Western Hills development, in west Lawrence, was built, and today homeowners in that area still had septic tanks which did not drain well in the clay soil, and because they chose the choice between potentially unsanitary living conditions or expensive replacement with a public sewage disposal system.
The commission has recently completed a set of subdivision regulations to be used as a guideline for builders and developers. A hearing on them will be conducted December 9.
Short's job as city planner also encompasses problems of planning within the city, such as the restructuring of park areas and facilities as surrounding populations change in age and economic characteristics. Said Lawrence had no real slum areas.
See PLANNING Page 12