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81st Year, No. 3 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, September 1, 1970
Fall Housing
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Notice
Gary Dean Jackson denied Monday that he used a Black Student Union check to purchase 27 boxes of ammunition in Topeka July 17 as reported Monday by the Kansan.
He said, rather, that he made the purchase with cash. Jackson is a former assistant to the dean of men and foreign instructor on the KU faculty.
a former instructor on the KU faculty.
University Asks Added Security
Kansan Photo by Greg Sorber
Water Babies
Getting back into the fall routine isn't easy when the weather
and the calendar say it is still summer. Although classes started yesterday, two students, Debbie Fox, Overland Park junior, and Bill Ploehn, Chicago junior, chose to keep rolling out the lazy days of summer in a sprinkler south of Murphy Hall.
Schools Integrate at Calm Pace
By United Press International
The South calmly and peacefully—but not without difficulty—integrated more of its schools Monday than on any previous day in history.
More than a quarter million black children spent their first day in school with white classmates as nearly 200 Southern school districts complied with federal orders to eliminate all vestiges of the dual school system.
cheers from black students, and capitol police drove 12-year-old Anne Holton and 11-year-old Woody Holton to mostly black Mosby School.
The Richmond school board transported 13,000 students on
School administrators turned them away and they promptly began picketing carrying signs which read "We want our school back."
dren home or placed them in private schools, thousands more went along with the new plans and sent them to thoroughly desegregated public schools.
three school age children live in a state-owned mansion in a predominantly black area of Richmond.
One such parent was Lin-
wood Holton, the Republican
Governor of Virginia, whose
Nearly 200 white parents at Stockbridge, Ga. tried to place their children in the school they attended last year instead of the formerly all black school to which they now are assigned.
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While thousands of white parents either kept their chil-
Holton accompanied his 14 year-old- daughter Virginia to predominantly black John F. Kennedy high school drawing
University of Kansas Administrative officials have submitted another request for additional security personnel to the State Budget Division, Raymond Nichols, Executive Secretary of the University said Monday.
As they began their new experience—16 years after the Supreme Court banned school segregation — Chief Justice Warren Burger announced that the High Court would hear arguments Oct. 12 on whether the Constitution requires all schools to have a racial balance.
"Our needs have been demonstrated," he added, disclosing that the University had asked for one patrolman and nine watchmen.
By DUKE LAMBERT Kansan Staff Writer
Nichols said the Chancellor's office has been making the recommendations for "some time now," and each request had been denied either by the Kansas Board of Regents or by the State Budget Division.
No reports of trouble on Monday's school openings were received by the U.S. Office of Education in Atlanta, which drafted many of the desegregation plans. "No news is good news," a spokesman said.
But Nichols suggested that if the State Budget Division, which is, in effect, the Governor's Office, follows the hard line of "no additional money," the campus security situation is likely to become slightly worse rather than remain the same.
Nichols pointed out that the watchmen attached to the security division of the University, desperately need help to do a satisfactory job of checking the university's buildings at least twice each night. At the present, checks are made only once each night.
Mike Thomas, Director of the KU security forces said that at the moment there are only 32 members on the force. Nine of these are in administration, leaving only 23 policemen to man the traffic gates, and be dormitory policemen and patrolmen.
Thomas said the KU security forces needed at least six more men.
Ebert Considers Coming Year
By JOHN RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
A standstill Lawrence community interacting with a rapidly changing University and an active black population make Bill Ebert, Student Body president, apprehensive about the coming school year.
"Lawrence police are not capable of handling situations which arise when these three factors are present," said Ebert during a Kansas interview in the Kansas Union Monday. "They have not used the right tactics," he said.
Ebert, who was close to events at KU this summer, questioned police investigations of the shooting deaths of two KU students, Nick Rice and Rick Dowdell.
"I don't buy the police story about Dowdell and I can't accept the complete KBI (Kansas Bureau of Investigation) report on Rice.
"Eyewitness reports on the
Rice shooting were not significantly reflected in the KBI report," he said.
Aside from police actions during the summer, Ebert also blamed University administration which, he said, made a false assumption when it dealt with violence in Lawrence.
"The administration tried to disconnect the two deaths from the University," said Ebert, "when it is, in fact, impossible to separate events in Lawrence from KU, since the University is the most influential entity in the community.
"When you try to separate the two, the lines of distinction become fuzzy," said Ebert, "but the chancellor has since made comments to the effect that he now realizes the two cannot be separated."
Ebert said he thought most of the violence this summer was not directed against the University itself and he called the
deaths of Dowdell and Rice "political deaths."
"Some have said that the death of Dowdell was an act of blatant oppression, and the death of Rice an example of political opposition to the youth culture.
"I'm inclined to go along with that reasoning," said Ebert.
"I don't believe there is any reason for people to die over issues like those here this summer and I'm willing to do anything to see that no one else gets killed in Lawrence," he said.
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Ebert also criticized the reaction by the Board of Regents to events in Lawrence this summer.
"Frankly I think the Regents acted very irresponsibly, especially those who voted to fire Chancellor Chalmers. They responded to things on the basis of their own college experience without understanding condi-
Bill Ebert . . . apprehensive