THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
83rd Year, No. 59
Friday, November 17, 1972
KU Senate Approves Mail Vote
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Kansan Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
The Last Leaf
Bare branches were covered with snow Thursday morning.
Watking for more winter to come, this lone tree of autumn hangs
behind the barn.
forecast continued cold and cloudy weather for today. As temperatures dipped into the 20s thursday night, the Weather Service predicted a high temperature today in the mid-30s. Chance for mixed rain and snow today is 20 per cent and 60 per cent for this evening. The same weather pattern is expected to continue Saturday.
2 Slain on Campus In Southern U. Fury
BATON ROUGE, la. (AP)—A state of emergency was declared here days after two blacks were killed when law officers moved to clear out students who had taken over the Southern University administration building.
Gov. Edwin Edwards said a state of emergency for East Baton Rouge Parish County, was declared after Sheriff Al Amiss ordered the inoculation of guns and ammunition in the area.
Sales of firearms were suspended and the mayor was empowered to set a curfew if people
Coroner Hypolite Landry said the victims were killed by either buckshot or shrapnel from exploding grenades or bombs. Both had head injuries, he said.
ONE OF the slain men was identified as a
Smith, a Smith, of New Roads. The other
a Smith.
Trouble continued on the campus throughout the afternoon. Edwards said fires extensively damaged two buildings and a bomb exploded in another.
The campus was blocked by state police and sheriff's deputies. One hundred National Guardmen were on the campus more were ordered out as a bolster force.
"There would have been no violence had not the students fired or thrown the first
tear gas" . Edwards told a news conference, noting he had seen film of the incident showing a canister hurled toward officers as they approached the occupied building.
He said he would make no more efforts to solve student problems "if they do not have enough confidence in me to go back to school" and give me time to solve their problems."
THE 9,000-STUDENT Baton Rouge campus and the 2,000 student New Orleans campus of the university, the nation's largest predominantly black university, have been embroiled in boycots since mid-October when they began pressing their demands for more student control of administrative affairs.
"WAME UP here to talk to President Leon Netterville this morning about the students being arrested. Dr. Netterville said he had a meeting at the state board of education at 10 a.m. We stated we would wait here until he returned and he agreed. We have not taken over the building. We had no idea that the National Guard would be coming us of taking over the building. Now they are out there shooting tear ga."
Shortly before the students were routed from the building, one girl spoke to a reporter by telephone from the president's office. "Let me give you the accurate situation," she said.
Newmen who tried to talk to students were rebuffed throughout the afternoon and telephone lines to dormitories were cut off after the camus was closed.
except those who live on campus in dormitories were ordered home.
ACCOUNTS PIECED together, authorities indicated the trouble began when students, who have been demanding a greater voice in college affairs, took over the control of the campus of students, estimated by police at 2,000, gathered outside the building.
Police ordered the students to move and, according to officials, a tear gas grenade was fired from the crowd at the officers. The crowd reacted with things and police responded with tear gas.
"Nobody shot one round," Sheriff Al Amiss of East Baton Rouge Parish County told the governor, who rushed to the campus.
Kunstler Argues Gay Lib's Case
"We didn't use anything but tear gas." Amiss said.
DENVER (AP)—Arguing that lives of homosexuals have been made a "diving hell" because of general ignorance, civil liberties attorney William Kunster Thursday urged the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to order the University of Kansas to formally recognize the Gay Liberation Movement for the purpose of educating the public.
HE SAID OF THE VICTims: "I looked like they were trampled. Their faces were all swollen."
The violence occurred at about the same time Edwards was telling the State Board of Education in a downtown office building that he was giving up efforts to negotiate with disgruntled students at the campus at a branch campus in New Orleans.
In an interview after the area around the administration building had been cleared, Amiss said, "We heard two pistol shots that came from the crowd."
Her reference is to the National Guard and specifically state troopers and security officers in riots.
The Appeals Court took the case under advisement.
in September 1970 by former KU Chancellor Laurence Chalmers who said he did not believe "student activity funds should be allocated either to support or to oppose the sexual proclivities of students, particularly they might lead to violation of state law."
The organization was denied recognition
The Lawrence Gay Liberation Front appealed Chalmers' decision to U.S. leaders in Tampa, arguing their group was forced to participate in Kansas about homosexuality, not to violate
laws. And as an educational group, the trom
is entitled to full University recognition
for its contributions.
Under University of Kansas regulations, any student organization is entitled to recognition its purpose is to promote academic, religious, economic or social activities.
All was reported quiet at the New Orleans campus, where students ended a nine-day occupation of that administration building and signed an agreement worked out with Edwards.
Failure to be recognized as a campus organization precludes a group from applying for student activity funds. Also, an unrecognized campus organization may not
As a result, attorneys for Gay Liberation,
amendment rights, freedom of speech,
KU Speculates on Athletic Post; Nichols to Appoint Advisory Group
The controversy began at the Baton Rouge campus in mid-October.
An air of uncertainty spread through the University of Kansas campus early Thursday as the University administration made plans for the selection of a new president. Wade Sinson's announcement Wednesday of his resignation from that post.
By DAN GEORGE
Kansan Staff Writer
Although Chancellor Raymond Nichols said that a five-member advisory group would be named Monday to assist in the selection of a new athletic director, it still was unclear as to the exact procedure the University would follow.
The major question in the wake of Stinson's announcement is who the new man is. Among those most frequently mentioned, he was former KU football coach Jack Mitchell, Lawrence businessman Odd Merritt, former assistant athletic director Martin McCormack.
Fambrough, who said Stinson's resignation came as a complete surprise to him, was reluctant to discuss the possibility of being named to the post.
"I'm certainly grateful for the opportunity he gave me as head football
coach," Fambrough said, "and certamy we all wish him well.
"But right now I'm thinking about it. It really would be unfit to our football team, it would be unfit for me."
Mitchell, who was fired by Stinson in 1968 and now is a newspaper publisher in Wellington, said it would be impossible for him to accept the position.
U. S. District Court George Templar denied the appeal, concurring with attorneys for the state that there was no actual abridement of constitutional rights.
Neither Williams, who was approached for the athletic director's job before Stinson was hired in 1964, nor Johnson, Wichita Hammerman, could be requested for comment.
"My complete devotion is to Kansas University, but I'd have to say that there's no doubt that I could not accept it. It would not work with it do it with all the things I'm doing now."
Another question was who should comprise the committee for the selection of the new athletic director. Nichols said in a news conference Thursday that the group would consist of two alumni, two faculty members and one student, but did not say what
organizations they would represent. All members may come from the athletic
Tuck Duncan, Wiltemite, Ill., senior and a student member of the KU athletic board, said he thought all the committee members should come from the athletic board.
"I hope the athletic corporation would be the advisory group," Duncan said. "I hope they don't appoint a new committee because the mechanics are already there in the athletic board. A new group would just be adding red tape to red tape."
Sterling said he hoped the new athletic director would come from the academic department.
"Definitely all you should be from the athletic board," Eberhardt said, "and I think that's what they want."
One athletic board member who disagreed, however, was Robert R. Henshaw.
John Eberhardt, Wichita lawyer and chairman of the athletic board, agreed with
"I'm opposed to any football coach, basketball coach, former football coach, former basketball coach or any other jock being named to the post," he said.
Kunstler argued Thursday the denial of rights is relative. He said there were some 150 recognized organizations on the campus and that Gay Liberation was the first organization in five years to be denied recognition.
The university was closed and all students
Chalmers' reason for denial of recognition, Kunster said, is not among the university's recruitment requests. Consequently, he said, the University has discriminated against homosexuals by prohibiting them the rights to speech and assembly granted to other students.
Kunstler, who was prohibited during the Topeka hearing from appearing as an attorney for Gay Liberation by Judge Templar, told the three-judge panel today:
"I'm very upset by this case. There is no chance for arguments. No one can sit on either side of this bench and say this is not a violation of First Amendment freedoms. This is a classic prior restraint and I think Templar's decision will be more Templar's decision from the bench."
Despite Kunster's urging for a decision, the new decision is expected for at least 30 days.
Special Kansas Assistant Atty. Gen.
Edward McColister rested the lower court
argument, noting there was no evidence of
denial of freedom of speech or assembly
and that as a result there is no constitutional
question involved.
Sitting on the panel Thursday were Delmas C. Hill, William J. Holloway and Oliver Seth, all judges of the appellate court.
Senate Seeks Freeze Of Union SES Funds
By JOHN PIKE Kanson Staff Writer
The Student Senate Thursday night passed a bill urging the Kansas Union Board of Directors to freeze funds for the Supportive Educational Services (SES) organization with other campus minorities to open its financial records to the senate.
The bill, sponsored by Gus DiZerega, Wichita graduate student, was amended slightly after it was determined that the senate had no actual control over SES allocations during the academic year and only recommended action to the Union board.
SES is fund during the academic year by the Kansas Union Bookstore for an amount not to exceed $30,000. The allocation is under the control of the Union Board.
SES has been the subject of recent controversy over the refusal by SES, a tutorial organization, to accept students other than blacks on the grounds of inadequate fundraising and refusal to release its financial records or to discuss them with the senate or the press.
DAVE DILLON, Hutchinson senior and student body president, said the Board had already notified SES that unless the agency was unaware of the committee's senate committee and committed itself to open its services to all minorities for the fall 1973 semester by Jan. 10, the remaining senators would have to wait.
Dillon announced the resignation of John House, Lawrence special student and chairman of the Student Executive Committee (StudEx).
House said in his letter of resignation that he had decided to leave school at the end of the semester, and would relinquish his degree, or upon the appointment of a successor.
THE SENATE PASSED a bill adopting a
Student Senate Disposition Contract with
the District.
The contract is a legally binding document which removes the Senate from liability for a group overdispersing its allocation. The contract also establishes procedures for spending allocated money to support education and to approve all disbursements in advance.
A bill to make the chairmanship of
the executive position instead of
elective was impled.
Dillon said the StudEx chairman should be appointed by the student body president, as called for in the original form of the bill, because the StudEx chairman should be someone the president could work with easily.
AMENDMENTS included retention of the elective system and making it possible to remove the StudEx chairman with a majority vote of the senate.
The Senate passed an amended version of a bill which would have permitted release of information by the registrar about a student without the student's consent. The amended bill now releases some information but does not require such information, or names of parents or guardians.
A bill freezing allocations from the Unallocated Contingencies Fund when the fund reaches the $1,500 level was passed so as to hold monies in reserve.
Committee Alums Characterize a Chancellor's Traits
Editor's Note: This is the last in a three-part series on the opinions of the members of the Campus Advisory Committee on the University's chancellor for the University of Kansas.
By GARY ISAACSON Kansan Staff Writer
Because a university is a "tremendously big business" the new chancellor of the University of Kansas must be a strong administrator, according to Roy A. Edwards, alumni member of the Campus Advisory Committee from Kansas City, Kan.
William Hagman, Pittsburgh, president of the Albany Association, agreed that a university should not be allowed to play.
"The new chancellor will have to provide academic leadership because, obviously, academics is what a university is for," he said.
The man who comes in will be charged with more administrative rather than academic charges.
Jordan L. Haines, Wichita, had another opinion.
Hagman and Edwards were of the opinion that the academic problems in the University could be handled by the chancellor's staff.
HAGMAN agreed and said the academic staff at KU was excellent. Both men did agree with Haines that the new chancellor provides a vital interest in higher education.
"There are a lot of fine academic people on the chancellor's staff," Edwards said.
"The new chancellor must be a man of stature who can speak for higher education and sell the needs of the University," Edwards said.
serve as an advocate for higher education in the state."
Hagman said, "I am interested in seeing a man who is for higher education and will
all three men are from the business world. They emphasized the importance of the teamwork.
"I am quite strong on individual competence," Haines said. "The person must have displayed an executive trait. His track record must qualify him for the position."
Edwards expressed the hope that the nominees would be coming from a place where they had success, whether it be in the business or academic world.
HAINES SAID that he had learned through his business experience that the people who got things done were not necessarily those who were most popular.
"I do not think it is necessary that the chancellor be the most popular person in Laurence, but he must be respected," he said.
Hagman said that in his professional life.
All three alumni seemed very concerned about how the new chancellor would relate to their school.
he looked at a person's background and how they had handled themselves. He said he would apply these same criteria to the nominees for the chancellor's position.
"The chancellor will have to be a man who can relate to the people of the state and the legislature and who could promote peace, reconciliation and best and the United States." Hagman said.
EDWARDS SAID that the geographical area from which the candidate came would be important in the chancellor's relations to the people of the state. He said he wanted someone with a Midwest background who general appreciation for Midwestern people.
"The people of Kansas are a different kind of people he said, who would like to work in the United States," example
Edwards also said that relations with the legislature were important for the funding of the program.
same language as the people in Hutchinson."
Edwards said that the disparity between U$'s budget and Kannan State's budget was greater than in any other state.
"The programs we have are only as good as the money we receive," he said. "I would like to see this University raised to the stature it had eight years ago."
"I would like somebody with enough
Hagman said that he had no particular limit.
The alumni gave various answers when they were asked what age range they would come to.
"MAYBE they (K-State) have done a better selling job than we have," he said. "Whatever the problem is, we have just not put our story across."
years ahead of him to institute programs and then see them followed through," he said. "Ray Nichols is an excellent man. I know he's had a couple more decades in front of him."
Haines said that whether he would accept someone who was 37 or 51 would depend on the reason.
Edwards gave a range of 40 to 50 years old and then qualified that range.
"The new chancellor will have to have some longevity and, on the other hand, he will have to have enough maturity to stand for his role in leading a major university will present," he said.
Haines summed up the feelings of the alumni toward minorities and the nominees
"The person must convince me that he or she is motivated toward greatness. If he or she just wants to maintain the status quo, then I don't want that person."