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81st Year, No. 12 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1970
Men's Jobs In Peril
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KSU Meets Nixon on 'Black Wednesday'
(Editor's Note: Two Kansan staffers went to Kansas State University last night to assess the mood of the campus on the eve of President Nixon's Landon Lecture. This is what they found.)
By MIKE MOFFET
By MIKE MOFFET
Kansan Staff Writer
MANHATTAN — President
Richard Nixon and students—they do not ring of compatibility. But if Kansas State University is a source of the students, and if it is—as the student body president has described it—a place where the "tense" student is still a system man, then K-State is a likely place for a youth-wary
president to confront what is often called "America's disenchanted youth."
In the early morning hours, before the President's address on "Order in Our Society," the rain that had become a part of the accepted atmosphere here
in Manhattan continued Wednesday.
The drizzle early Wednesday morning reflected the prevailing mood, in the hours immediately prior to the speech by the President, that amid threats of protest and adulation spirits
may have been dampened by the incessant rain.
In a front-page editorial in the Kansas State Collegian Wednesday morning, a statement "welcoming" the President revealed a sense of honor
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Pirate Foiled In Attempted TWA Hijack
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—A former mental patient, carrying a pistol loaded with blanks and a note reading "I want to go to North Korea," was shot and wounded Tuesday while trying to hijack a Trans World Airlines jet.
A quick-thinking stewardess persuaded the hijacker that the Boeing 707 jet would have to land at San Francisco to refuel and a private Brinks guard shot the man down in the aisle while passengers cowered in the forward compartment.
None of the other 55 passengers and crew of seven was injured. The hijacker's gun turned out to be a .22-caliber starter's pistol loaded with eight blanks.
The hijacker, a neatly dressed white man, was identified as Donald Bruce Irwin of Reseda, Calif., a sign painter and cartoonist who had been treated in mental hospitals. He was rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery.
The Brinks guard, Robert Denisco, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y., shot Irwin once in the abdomen with a 38-caliber revolver after TWA officials decided the hijacking should be thwarted
if possible and a stewardess whispered to Denisco, "He's open in the aisle."
"There was a deafening blast and fire came from the weapon," said a passenger, Sallie Rush, 24, of San Francisco. "I turned around and saw an outstretched hand sinking behind the seat."
Irwin, once accused of sideswiping a police car in Southern California and telling his trial, "I just wanted to die," was charged with aircraft piracy, which carries a maximum death penalty.
Even before the plane landed at San Francisco, the pilot was discussing "possible armed intervention" with ground controllers, in a long exchange which ended as he shouted over his radio just after the shot was fired:
"Get your security force on board now! Come on board now, come on, security! Let's go, police, go! Move security! Everybody on board now!"
It was the first attempted U.S. hijacking since President Nixon ordered armed U.S. marshals on some planes, although there were none on the TWA plane.
Kansan Photo
KU Broadway
Lights from Daisy Hill form an intriguing design of pinpoints and spiked stars. Car lights in this time exposure make the roads silver streaks winding their paths through a milky way of street lights and glowing windows. The vertical row of lights on the right is the KANU transmitter tower.
Faculty Expresses Concern That Senate Not Consulted in May
A resolution passed by the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tuesday night expressed concern that the University Senate was not consulted to discuss the class attendance options adopted at a University Convocation last May.
An amendment to the resolution commended the students, faculty and administration of the University for "their constructive and cooperative response" to demands during
the period of upheaval.
The resolution, adopted at a faculty meeting in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, was an amended form of a motion introduced May 26, 1970 by John P. Davidson, professor of physics. The motion was indefinitely tabled at that meeting.
Davidson's motion was reopened for debate at Tuesday's meeting.
The motion was amended three times, first by Robert J.
Chalmers: 'Greater Commitment'
The University of the future must meet the needs of its students and the society it serves, if it is to provide optimum learning, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said Tuesday morning in an interview.
As KU begins its 105th year, Chalmers begins his second year as chancellor. In the interview he reflected on the turmoil of the past, its effect on the University and the prospects of the future.
Commenting on the events of spring, which culminated May 8 in a student-faculty vote to end the semester under a system of options, Chalmers said he believed the adoption of the options was a good decision.
"GIVEN THOSE times, those circumstances, and the massive concerns of students and faculty, I would change very little of what happened," he said. "That decision has been a source of satisfaction to me."
The effects of the decision, both for Chalmers personally and for the University, are still factors as KU begins a new term, he said.
"I think there is a greater solidarity among the people of this University," he said, "including students, faculty and staff, as a result of past problems.
"ON A VERY subjective, almost an emotional level, I have a greater commitment—joie de vivre, however that might be
E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
. . . 'a greater solidarity'
translated—or spirit this fall than I had a year ago. I think this is an aftermath of the spring and it can fade for all of us if we don't build it in.
"I felt an uptight, gloomy campus last fall. I haven't felt that since May 8."
Considering KU's present term, the chancellor reaffirmed the optimism of his convocation address.
"I don't think it would be realistic to say there is no chance of trouble," he said, "but if we have trouble, I do not expect it to originate or involve to a significant degree the students, faculty or staff of this University.
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Friauf, professor of physics, who entered an amendment to direct the resolution to the University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx).
The second amendment was proposed by John C. Wright, professor of psychology, who moved to add the sentence commending the University for its actions during the spring semester.
A third amendment, introduced by Richard DeGeorge, professor of philosophy, changed the wording of "University faculty" to "University Senate."
The amended resolution passed by a large majority in a voice vote. As amended, it reads:
"The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences expresses its concern that a meeting of the University Senate was not called prior to the Convocation of May 8, in order to discuss the ' alternatives' recommended by SenEx. The purpose of this resolution is to make clear to the administration and to the SenEx that the Senate should be consulted in any comparable future circumstance.
"The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences commends the students, faculty and administration of the University of Kansas for their constructive and cooperative response to the extraordinary demands during the difficulty of last spring."