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Thursday. Sept. 24. 1970
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photo by STEVE FRITZ
Floyd Horowitz Addresses ACLU
... "Lawrence is currently not a normal city"
Local Legal Cases Surveyed by ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had its first open meeting of the year Tuesday night.
Floyd Horowitz, chairman of the Lawrence chapter of the ACLU, said that the main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the range of some of the things the group had been doing and would be doing in the future.
"We normally respond to any civil liberties issues which can be defined by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights," he said. "Our range is unlimited in a sense. It can include issues in the academic areas—university, high school, grade school and Haskell Institute. It can also include the full range of law enforcement."
One of the main functions of the ACLU, according to Horowitz, is to pay particular attention to test cases which could set precedence.
"Lawrence has more than its fair share of disquiet," he said, "and may have more than its fair
Three Named To Committee Of '71 Revue
Three KU students have been named to the 1971 Rock Chalk Revue coordinating committee, according to William Rapelye, Kansas City, Mo., senior and Rock Chalk producer.
Those named to the committee and their positions include Andy Buchaty, Kansas City junior, assistant producer; Bob Deadman, Tulsa, Okla., sophomore, head writer for in-between acts, and Fritz Arko, Mission junior, business manager.
Rapelye said individuals are still needed to fill the house manager and ticket sales chairman positions, and also to work on the various Revue committees. Those interested may contact Rapelye at 842-2004 or leave a note in his box at the KU-Y office. 110B. Kansas Union.
The theme of this year's Revue, scheduled for Feb. 26-28, is "Intentions of Inventions." Rough drafts of the scripts are due Oct. 1.
Rapelye said residence halls and scholarship halls are being encouraged to enter scripts in this year's competition. Though participation has usually been fairly heavy from fraternities and sororities, independent living groups have not been very active in Rock Chalk in the past.
share of test cases."
One particular case the members of the ACLU seemed to be interested in was the suspension for one semester of four students from Lawrence High School.
Ed Ruhe, member of the ACLU said, "The right to an education is among the most important of rights. Deprivation of this right is extremely grave."
According to Ruhe, the students were suspended primarily for fighting, and secondarily for the use of profanity and disrespect for the administration. Although nine students were suspended for a short term, he said, only four were suspended for the entire semester. The four were black.
Sheriff Miller Injured in Tiff At a School
WICHITA (UPI) — Sedgwick County Sheriff Vern Miller was injured slightly Wednesday during a noon hour disturbance, described by officials as having racial overtones, at Wichita Heights High School.
Miller, a Democratic candidate for attorney general, suffered minor cuts and bruises.
Classes at the school were cancelled at 1 p.m. after fighting erupted in the main hallway during the lunch hour.
nearly 100 law enforcement officers, including 20 state troopers, converged on the scene. About 15 persons were arrested.
Bob Anderson, school principal,
said about 200 of the school's
1,675 students were involved.
There are about 275 black students
at Wichita Heights.
Anderson and a police dispatcher said the fighting had racial overtones. The state troopers, 20 city policemen and more than 50 sheriff's officers put down the disturbance.
"School will reopen as usual tomorrow," Anderson said. He said most students were bused to the school because it was not near any large residential area.
At least 30 separate incidents had occurred at Wichita schools in a period of less than a week, but Wednesday's incidents followed a day of relative calm.
On Monday night, Supt. Alvin Morris told the school board that he believed "at least a degree of order" had been restored. He said that incidents up to that time involved 160 students directly, and that 31 had been suspended or expelled.
Of that number,he said,26 were black.
Thirty-seven students required medical attention, Morris said, and eight of those were hospitalized.
Morris said he was sure he had not "covered all of it." He said he had received "hundreds and hundreds of telephone calls" which jammed the school system switchboard.
Gay Lib Front Discusses Leaflet Effort at Movie
The Lawrence Gay Liberation Front Wednesday discussed its latest project, in which members of the Front handed out leaflets at the evening showings of the film "The Boys in the Band," at the Granada Theatre.
"Homosexuals in our society are consistently and cruelly oppressed by the myth that they are in some way less than their fellow men," the leaflets said. "Whether this characterization of homosexuality as inferior is expressed in terms of 'immorality, perversion, or maladjustment,' it places upon a valuable part of society a sometimes insupportable weight of guilt, anxiety, and self-hatred.
"The pain and cruelty tvpified
by 'The Boys in the Band' should be understood as the expression of human lives damaged by an environment of condemnation, suspicion, job discrimination, and legal harrassment. Gay Liberation refuses to apologize for the occasionally humorous but often tragically destructive lives of some gay people. We condemn the society which is responsible for our oppression and call to all to join us in the struggle for a world in which all human begins are free to love without fear or shame."
At its meeting, the Front announced that it was organized into these committees: legal, social activities, financial, education, liaison, and propaganda.
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