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Fee Payment Due Sept. 9
Fees are due September 9, and students who have not received their fee schedules by September 4 should contact the Office of the Registrar. William L. Kelly, resitrar, said schedules were mailed to the addresses which students gave during enrollment, but that many of these would be returned. Kelly added that anyone who does not pay by the due date will be assessed a late fee.
"Students shouldn't get the idea that just because they have not received a schedule they will not be charged," Kelly said. If students need financial assistance, they should go to the Office of Financial Aids and Awards and make the proper adjustments so a procedure for payment can be set.
Women's Coalition To Meet
A meeting of the Women's Coalition will be at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. Discussion will include setting up committees for a cooperative babysitting service, a campus birth control clinic, abortion laws and a self defense program. There will also be a slide show about women in America today.
Proficiency Exam Scheduled
The Language Proficiency Examination in French will be given 3:30 p.m. Thursday in room 103, Carruth-O'Leary Hall. Students who missed the first examination in French should attend.
BSU To Host Reception
The Black Student Union will host a reception for the faculty of the African Studies Department at 7:00 p.m. Thursday in the Watkins Room of the Kansas Union. Members of the BSU are invited to attend the reception.
Inquest...
12 KANSAN Sept. 2 1970
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heard the voice and thought it was Officer Gale Pinegar. Stroud leveled his carbine and fired one shot at the center of the fleeing suspect's back, shooting south toward the Gaslight Tavern. He missed.
The other policemen with Stroud loosed a volley of carbine and shotgun fire. Most testified they shot into the air. Two of them threw tear gas canisters toward the Gaslight.
Rice was standing talking to Miss Stevens and Shofstall when they heard someone say the police were coming toward them. "We started to run, mostly to get out of the way" of the crowd that was streaming south away from police, Miss Stevens said.
"I turned around to see Nick wasn't holding my hand anymore and he was down."
According to Shofstall, Rice had commented that he had to work and should go home. "I heard a loud concussion and the whine of bullets going past. I turned and saw Nick lying on the ground."
Others also saw Rice on the ground and tried to administer first aid, using wet rags to keep tear gas away and give him oxygen. Eventually he was carried into the Gaslight. An ambulance was called. Police were told someone had been shot but continued to throw tear gas into the area, thinking it might be a trick to lure them into the crowd.
The ambulance arrived minutes after the call at 10:18 p.m. Rice was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival.
Merton Olds, a KU graduate student and research assistant in chemistry, also was wounded
that night. He was standing behind Rice in front of the Gaslight, facing south, but turned to look north over his shoulder. He said he saw the ground kick up 20 feet north of him and immediately felt a sharp pain in his right leg. Not realizing he was shot, he stayed there a while longer. When he discovered he was bleeding, he went into the Gaslight. He apparently was completely recovered from the leg wound at the time of the inquest.
An investigation by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation showed that Olds and Rice were on a direct line to Officer Stroud with no obstacles between. The KBI also made lab tests on a bullet found outside of the Gaslight and determined that it had come from Stroud's gun. They found no evidence that the bullet had human tissue or serum on it, and Special Agent Robert Harvey testified he believed there would have been if it had been the death bullet.
District Coroner Dr. James Reed, who presided over the
hearing, said in his report that Rice died of a gunshot wound to the back of the neck which exited through the left cheek. There was no evidence in either the coroner's report or the KBI investigation that Rice had taken alcohol or drugs or that there were gas fumes or sulphur traces on his body.
James Malson, who headed the KBI team, said they found no evidence of planned riot or property destruction and no evidence of firearms in the crowd. They could not determine who had killed Nick Rice.
SUA MEMBERSHIP MEETING september 3 8:00pm
The purpose of the SUA membership meeting is to explain to students the opportunities for working in SUA during this school year. Each board member will present a short explanation of his area and the committee positions available. There will be an opportunity for students to ask each board member specific questions about