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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas----Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, December 8. 1970
Victory
81st Year, No.65
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Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
BSU Chairman Ron Washington Addresses Rally at Strong Hall
... "if it takes until June we'll be here on strike"
Regents Refuse Immediate Session On Jackson, OK Dec. 14 Meeting
By MIKE MOFFET
Kansan Staff Writer
Members of the Kansas Board of Regents said night night they were unwilling to hold a special meeting at KU on Wednesday to consider restatement of Gary Dean and meet with a group of black faculty and staff at their regular session next Monday.
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Warrant Out For Arrest Of Student
The Douglas County Attorney's office issued a warrant yesterday for the arrest of a black University of Kansas student who is being sought in connection with a shooting incident Monday in which another KU student was wounded.
The university identified the victim as Harry K. Snyder, a 22-year-old senior in education from Topeka. Snyder, who transferred to Lawrence Memorial Hospital from hospital, was reported in good condition on Monday with a bullet wound in the neck.
According to witnesses, the shooting occurred at 8:15 a.m. Monday near the front entrance of the building.
Snyder was seen approaching a black youth, who was attempting to paint the word "Strike" on the steps of the library, while another black youth watched. A scuffle ensued between Snyder and one of the blacks. The fight, which started on the steps of the library, finished with Snyder and the other boy. In response, a clump of bushes near the front steps of the library. A gun was fired. The two blacks fled the scene on foot, but not together.
Assistant County Attorney Mike Ewell said that preliminary investigations would indicate that Snyder had been wounded by a .32 caliber pistol bullet.
No arrest had been made in connection with the shooting incident as of midnight Monday.
The Wednesday meeting was requested by a special committee of 25 black faculty and staff members and 10 white faculty members appointed at Monday afternoon's impromptu faculty meeting, which was called to discuss the Jackson case.
Following the regents' refusal to meet in Lawrence, the committee considered possible responses, making a final decision. It did not release a statement and refused to comment.
At 9 a.m. Monday, black members of the faculty and staff held a conference with Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. in his office.
They urged Chalmers to contact the regents and ask them to convene a special meeting to reconsider Gary Dean Jackson's termination from the Dean of Men's staff last summer.
After meeting with the group for about two and a half hours, Chalmers reported that the meeting had nothing to do with the earlier instruction to KU student on the steps of Watson Library.
"The black faculty and staff members were as stunned as I was to learn of the shooting,"
Chalmers said that all but one or two of the regents were contacted and that most were not.
black faculty and staff group at the regents' regular meeting.
Later in the day, however, the possibility of a special meeting before Dec. 14 still seemed
After learning the regent's response to their request, the black faculty and staff members left the Chancellor's office, refusing to comment on the situation.
Asked afterwards if the meeting was amicable, Chalmers said "I would say so."
According to reports from faculty members afterwards, those attending the meeting passed unanimously a resolution requesting Chalmers to call Gov. Robert B. Docking to ask him to call a special meeting of the regents within two days.
Shortly after leaving the Chancellor's office, black faculty members called a meeting of all KU faculty for 3:30 p.m. in the Theatre to discuss the Jackson case.
About 300 faculty members, both black and white, attended the event which was chaired by the press.
Chalmers left the meeting and learned that the governor was in Mexico. He did contact Max Bickford, executive officer of the regents, and requested that Bickford try to
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BSU Threatens Strike Until June for Jackson
Goal: Reinstatement or Talk with Regents
By DAN EVANS Kansan Staff Writer
Members of the University of Kansas Black Student Union said Monday at a rally in front of the university that announced June if necessary to get Gary Jackson, first year law student from Topeta, reattributed to the attack.
The BSU announced the strike Monday. At 1:30 p.m. rally at强荣 Hall, Ron Washington, second year law student from Chicago and chairman of the BSU, told his students to stop their jobs until Gary Jackson takes one week, if it takes two weeks, if it takes until June we'll be on strike until Rogers is reinstated or until the Board of Regents comes down here and talks to us." Washington said the strike had been called because of the regents" total neglect" of a BSU request for an explanation of Jackson's dismissal.
Jackson was fired on July 28 by order of the regents when it was disclosed that he had purchased a large amount of ammunition the day after Rick Dowell was killed in a car accident and been assistant to the dean of men and was responsible for working with black KU students.
At a rally two weeks ago the BSU gave the regents until Dec. 2 to explain why Jackson was fired. At the November rally, Washington read a statement from the BSU that said if the regents were not removed, the token to insure that the rest of the KU faculty and staff shared in Jackson's unemployment.
Washington said on Monday's rally that the black faculty supported the strike. The black faculty was the gravity of the situation and supported the strike because the regents ignored the BSU's request.
Posters bearing pictures of Rick Dowdell were carried by several students and were taped to the walls of Strong. The sidewalks in downtown Dallas were marked with signs that said "Strike," "Support Gary."
Ebert said everyone would have to take a position and no one could remain silent about it.
Bill Ebert, top senior and student body president, said he supported the strike. Ebert said it was important that some one from the team be involved in desirability of unity with the blacks.
"Gary Jackson's firing." Ebert said, "supercedes black and white and his case means something to the future of this university."
Pickets positioned themselves at the entrances of several campus buildings and small groups of students carrying signs of protest. A crowd gathered behind Jayhawk Boulevard before the rally.
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HEW Official Hands in Resignation
WASHINGTON (UP1) - James E. Farrer, one of the Nixon administration's highest ranking blacks, resigned Monday as Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. He said he could do more to help Negroes from outside the government.
"I'm not repudiating the machinery of government. I am not repudiating the establishment," Farmer said after a white House meeting with President Nixon. But he said he longed to regain his "old role as advocate, critic and activist."
Farmer, 50, former head of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), said his departure from HEW was friendly, but he conceded he had differences with the administration as "I had with all other ad-
ministrations."
In his letter of resignation, Farmer said, "I greatly appreciate the opportunity I have had during the past year and a half to further my career. I believe in American people, particularly blacks and other minorities. I am proud of whatever contributions I have been able to make during this period, and I would like to assure you that I will be committed to service my future commitments will allow."
Despite repeated questioning, however, Farmer refused to make specific criticisms of the administration's policies toward minorities.
Farmer said that during the next six months he will lecture over the country and many other states on his articles. He also said he would try to bring about more minority influence on national planning and would study the feasibility of creating a 'think tank' of minorities to govern them.
In accepting the resignation, Nixon praised a farmer for his "many contributions" during the crisis.
"I have sought quietly, inside, to pursue the elusive objective of lasting change for my people. There have been limited successes." (12) "I know that I am not enough to satisfy my appetite for progress."
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Rick Dowdell Posters Taped to Strong Hall
. . signs and slogans painted on buildings and walls
Student Group Organizes Rally to Support Jackson
By JOHN GAGE
Kansan Staff Writer
A rally in support of the strike to reinstate Gary Jackson will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in order to further determine tactics to encourage student participation in the strike.
The rally is being organized by a group of predominantly white students who met Monday night at the Wesley Foundation in an attempt to develop such tactics.
According to Bill Black, Kansas City, Mo., junior and spokesman for the meeting, the location of tonight's rally will be announced sometime today.
Several of those present at the meeting also volunteered to collect materials to be used today and throughout the strike, such as posters, leaflets and armbands.
Posters will be used predominantly by student pickets University buildings, it
The group will circulate two leaflets, one concerning the background of Gary Jackson's firing and one encouraging active student support for the strike.
Chris Griffin, Houston, Tex., graduate student and representative of the Black
Student union steering committee, spoke at the meeting and encouraged white students to attend. Students were also necessary in connection with the strike, but added "Dont bite off more than you can."
Griffin intimated that the Black Student Union would take action beyond the continuation of the strike if it became a long, drawn out affair.
"We talked for a while about shutting off Strong Hall and keeping those inside in the basement," Ms. Goff said.
Ebert added that the issue of the strike was more than Jackson's reinstatement, it is the oppressive control by the Kansas Board of Regents of University of Kansas policies, University actions and even the actions of individual students.
According to Griffin, the black faculty members are strongly in support of the BSU concerning the strike.
"Even though we are going to try to get Gary Jackson reinstalled," said Ebert, "the main purpose of the strike is to show the need for an end to going to put up with their actions much longer."
Ebert, however, agreed with Bitt Hansean,
Kansas City, Mo., a graduate student, who
Interaction Needed to Combat 'Town-Gown' Split
BY KEN CUMMINS and CRAIG PARKER Kansan Writers
Any discussion of a "town-gown" spm on Lawrence is an emotional event, with rumors and accusations from both sides. The author's and "drug-drip hide contagion"
But an accurate appraisal of universa-
community relations, at best only a partial
picture, would seem more likely to come
from a survey of objective barometers of
city-city involvement, rather than
against the city or the university,
displays against the city or the university.
Dave Anderson, outgoing president of the Interfraternity Council, said at least
Voluntary programs by KU living groups or organizations seem to abound. Official university programs, on the other hand, appear somewhat scare.
The demand for more relevancy at Homecoming this year indicates a desire on the part of students to become more involved in the life of the community.
h of KU's 38 fraternities have a program or service project in the Lawrence community at least once a month, and some as often as every week.
Borad Watson, Lawrence city manager since Feb. 1, says he sees practically no split between businessmen and students at the university. The level has always been good and the channels for communication are profuse. Nearly a quarter of the membership on the Board is personified as prominent in the University Library The Library Local and the House Authority have the largest representation, with more than 40 per cent of each com-
community is split by a polarization between students and townpeople. The students, he said, feel exfoliated by the city.
Watson, however, admits the Lawrence
development of long-term relationships between students and the business community. Admissions Office Records show yearly turnover in the freshman class of 20
"Students complain they are not ap-
This is the second in a series of Lawrence in the '70s, a series that the Kansas hopes will help to clear some of the clouds of misunderstanding that separate KU from the city. The articles will continue through his week.
--predicated by the business people," Watson said. "They say they are not considered in a lot of policy decisions."
Watson said the transienty of the student community prevented the
to 25 per cent. When coupled with the large number of persons graduating and those leaving for other reasons, this figure is a significant yearly turnover of students.
Watson said a serious communications gap existed between the University and the community.
"Most of our communication occurs during crisis situations," he said, "and people on both sides are critical of each other."
He cited the need for a framework where serious questioning and discussion could take place. Efforts have been greatly increasing in recent months to provide more channels of communications between the University and the community.
One such channel is Don Metzler, mayor of Lawrence and, at the same time, associate dean of the School of Engineering and professor of civil engineering. He never thought of his office as a link between the University and the town. To him,
the term 'town-gown split' meaningless. He said he believes the phrase has been greatly perpetuated by the press.
"The university gets blamed by the community for the actions of one or two, and vice versa," Metter said.
He said there had been no reluctance among city officials to call University people for help and he couldn't remember anyone turning a request down.
Rick Walker was hired last summer by the Lawrence Department of Human Resources to work as a channel between the city and the "street community."
Walker said he definitely believed a town-and-gown split did exist and could be observed by the "conspicuous absence of University people" on city projects.
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'Each side attends to its own affairs and