University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 3, 1970
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Fire Insurance Rates Rise After Union Fire
An after-effect of last April's Kansas Union fire is an increased fire insurance rate paid by the University. Kansas Union Director Frank Burge said Wednesday the insurance had increased approximately 550 per cent since the fire.
"The insurance premium reflects the underwriters' appraisal of their risk in high value buildings," Burge said. "We have instructed our agent to continue his negotiations relative to policy placement if and when the market improves."
The U.S. Fire Insurance Co. which previously insured the Union, asked to be relieved of a major portion of their coverage by Sept. 1. Eight companies now share the Union risk.
Insurance premiums are determined by many factors such as alarm systems, fireproof materials used in construction, potentially dangerous location and ability to limit damage. This last factor helped hold down the cost of reinsuring the Union. Many KU students helped save contents of the Union when the fire occurred.
In a letter to Burge, the U.S. Fire Insurance Co. wrote, "the attitude of the students in saving hundreds of thousands of dollars of your contents during the fire certainly reflected credit to them and to the general regard for Student Union property."
Student refunds from Union books and goods sales have dropped from approximately 7 per cent to 5 per cent. The reason for this is a $2\frac{1}{2}$ per cent rebate of sales applied to a scholastic aid program for students. Insurance completely covered destroyed and damaged books.
N.Y. Adds Revolution To Its Dial-a-number
NEW YORK (UPI)—If revolutionary rhetoric is your bag, no longer do you have to search out a street demonstration or tune in your TV news in the hopes of finding it. You can dial Revolutionary at 212 956-7032.
New Yorkers have long been able to dial a demonstration, a prayer, a model—nude or clothed—or a steak.
Now they can dial Katherine Cleaver's giving her version of how Black Panther Bobby Hutton was killed in a shootout with police; Weatherwoman Bernadine Dohrn saying that the SDS Weathermen will bomb a symbol of "American imperialism"; Yippie Abbie Hoffman telling high school kids to get their guns; revolutionary poet Diane di Prima-advising young revolutionaries to "meditate, pray, make love, be prepared at any time to die" or Allen Ginsberg chanting mantras.
The Dial a Revolutionary service was organized by John Giorno, a poet for an exhibit on "Information" at the Museum of Modern Art. It costs the museum $280 a month for phone bills and tapes. The poets and revolutionaries donate their services. During the almost two months of the exhibition, the service has received 78,000 calls. It offers 12 different tapes daily.
Giorno says the service will be continued by the museum after the exhibition closes later this month. He says that originally the service was modeled after a Dial-a-Poet service started in Chicago early last year.
Course Teaches Law To Inner City Youths
BOSTON (UPI)—"Residents of the inner city tend to regard the law as an oppressor rather than as a guardian."
This comment comes from a teacher's guide, part of a new education course designed to bridge the gap between law and justice in urban America. The point it makes is that the law works best for those who know how to use it.
The course, "Justice in Urban America," was developed and tested in Chicago and will make its debut in junior and senior high schools in most large cities across the nation this fall.
The response from civic and education officials to the sixvolume course has been tremendous, reports Berry L. Reece Jr., an executive editor of Houghton Mifflin Co. of Boston, publisher of the series.
"The series is as pragmatic as a karate lesson," he said. "It's a survival kit."
The series is aimed at young people approaching adulthood in an environment where there exists a large potential that they will run afoul of the law.
Packaged in six pamphlets, it does not emphasize rules, legal definitions or legal theory, but stresses how the law really works in everyday life.
It is written on a level that is easily understood, is profusely illustrated and contains anecdotes and numerous examples of possible legal entanglements as well as actual court cases, all of which are designed to capture the students' interest.
Reece said civic and education officials long have believed such a course in everyday law was needed, particularly in urban areas where residents have felt the "law" is their enemy.
"There are reasons for the widespread disrespect for the law in the central cities," the teacher's guide says. "To the black community, 'the law' is the insensitive police officer who calls a man 'boy' and regards a black man in a white neighborhood as a 'suspicious character.'"
"To ghetto dwellers, 'the law' is the urban renewal agency which tears down housing desperately needed by the poor to build a new highway or a civic center."
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — "The alarm bell of student dissent is ringing loud and clear across the land and it's not about to be stilled any time soon."
Dissent Troubles Teachers
So does the National Education Association (NEA) spell out the problems educators and the communities will face as another school year nears.
Dissent and rebellion will dip even into the intermediate grades, says NEA.
The prediction of more disturbances comes from a recent survey of violence in the classroom, a study done by the Office of Students and Youth of the U.S. Office of Education (USOE).
How to deal with the situation? Educators generally agree that students have a right to be heard, provided their "voices are not too shrill and are not accompanied by acts of violence."
The National Association of Secondary School Principals, an affiliate of NEA, has prepared guidelines for dealing with dissent. They're in "The Reasonable Exercise of Authority" by Robert L. Ackerly.
Among the guidelines for fair treatment of student, dissenters:
mnt of student dissenters:
Freedom of expression. "Freedom of expression cannot legally be restricted unless its exercise interferes with the orderly conduct of classes and school work."
Students may express opinions through speech, wearing buttons, etc., "so long as such actions do
not intrude upon the rights of others during school hours."
Personal Appearance: "A student is free to adopt his own hair style and manner of dress provided his action does not present a hazard in such school activities as shop or lab work. Ruled out are extreme styles that are likely to create classroom disorder or such items as boots with cleats that create a school maintenance problem.
Codes of behavior: These should be what school officials believe to be "reasonable and fair" and necessary for the protection of rights of others and of the school.
Discipline: "We recommend again that rules governing in-school discipline be established only after full participation of students and other concerned
parties. Serious breaches of discipline or any accumulation of minor breaches "must be handled by due process."
Student government: The scope . . . should be a matter of public record. This means, among other things, a published charter or constitution. Such a charter should be the result of joint agreement among administration, faculty and students."
Student press: "School-sponsored publications should be free from policy restrictions outside the normal rules for responsible journalism."
Drugs: Students are required to obey the same laws on school grounds as elsewhere . . . "school authorities have the same responsibility as every other citizen to report violations of the law."
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