Passage of Senate Code moving slowly
By STEVE HAYNES Kansan Staff Writer
KU's proposed new University Senate Code is currently hung up in the University's existing bureaucracy.
The code, a proposal to make sweeping reforms in the internal government of the University of Kansas, is now being debated in the All Student Council (ASC) and the University Senate Council.
Included in the proposal is a revised University Senate composed of both students and faculty, a Faculty Senate and a Student Senate.
When the code was first released, Joe Goering, Moundridge junior and vice-president of the student body, predicted the code would be ready for final approval in time for a University Senate meeting Oct. 29. That meeting was canceled and the date for final adoption now seems to be more like Feb. 29.
The new code began as a gleam in the eyes of Hamilton Salsich, former assistant instructor of English; Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student, and Bill Berkowitz, New York senior.
They formed a group called Student Voice (now Peoples Voice) and began agitating for reform in University governance.
Voice representatives passed around a petition, which cited their demands, including 50 per cent student representation in University government, repudiation of a statement by Dean of Faculties Francis Heller that students were "transients" and an end to ROTC and military research on campus.
the petitions, signed by more than 1,700 students, were presented to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe with the warning that if Voice's demands were not met, there would be a sit-in at Strong Hall.
What followed was a round of meet
ings, charges, counter charges, demands, and counter demands. Wescoe and Heller both met with the dissenters. No sit-in was forthcoming, however; instead, a mass rally was held on Stone's steps.
As a result, the ASC and the Senate Council jointly appointed the Student Faculty Committee on University Governance.
After meeting all summer, the committee issued its report, the majority report, in which the new Senate Code, was included as an appendix.
The code would be a charter for the student-faculty government if adopted, and would unify the various elements of today's separate student and faculty government, giving students a say in University government.
It would replace the ASC constitution and the present Senate Code.
The ASC would be replaced by a 95-member Student Senate and the
present University senate would become the new faculty senate, made up of tenured faculty. Each group would deal with problems in its own area.
Both bodies would meet to form the new University Senate. Students would make up about 15 per cent of the new senate, which would deal with University matters.
This means KU would have one unified government structure, rather than two parallel structures.
KU would have a larger student representation than any other major university, if the code is adopted, Clif Conrad, Bismark, N.D., senior and Student Body President. said.
When the ASC and the Senate Council are done with the code, it still must go through the following steps before its final adoption:
Joint ASC-Senate Council confer
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79th Year, No. 33 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Thursday, October 31, 1968
In fair condition
Youth shot near tavern
A nineteen-year-old Lawrence youth was reported in fair condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a shooting around 11:10 p.m. yesterday in front of the Gaslight Tavern.
Hospital officials reported Dale Eugene Mumford was officially admitted at 11:30 p.m. yesterday with a gunshot wound in the right calf. No charges had been filed in the case as of 2 a.m., and police declined to give any details.
Witnesses at the tavern said the shooting occured over an argument
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which took place in front of the establishment. Mumford allegedly left the argument pursued by his assailant. As he reached the steps of the tavern, the second man raised a shotgun and fired.
As police arrived at the scene a group of about 20 Negroes began jeering and yelling profanities at the officers, while a crowd estimated at more than 300 persons milled around the area.
Harold Stagg, night manager of the tavern, said he saw the man stumble into the establishment screaming, "My brother shot me—my brother shot me."
As police arrived, Negro youths harassed the officers. One man ran up to the officers screaming "Hit me—Hit me."
The street was quickly jammed with Highway patrol, Lawrence and KU police. At least 9 police cars and 25 officers were dispatched to the scene. Police dogs were brought but confined to police cars.
Police formed a line of about 15 officers directly across from the crowd. One youth ran up to the line and screamed, "I'll tell you what I think about you." He then
Kansan photo by Greg Sorber
Several onlookers, part of the crowd which gathered outside the Gaslight Tavern after a shooting fracas, rest nonchalantly against a police car.
spat at the officers and said,
"That's what I think about you."
One man peered in a window of a car containing police dogs and began yelling, "They want those dogs to eat black meat tonight."
A man who refused to be identified said, "I was playing pool when I heard what sounded like a fire-
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Two combine for concert
Pop music Pied Piper Andy Williams and neo-country music star Roger Miller join forces Saturday night when they bring their college tour to KU for the annual Homecoming concert.
The program, sponsored by Student Union Activities, should offer a marked contrast between Williams' smooth love songs and gently upbeat melodies and Miller's raucous ballads of itinerant hitchhikers and town drunks.
While cruising down "Moon River" or recalling "Days of Wine and Roses," Williams has won 11 gold records for individual album sales of more than a million dollars.
"I've never been in a hurry to achieve success," Williams has often told interviewers. Success, however, seems to have been anxious to capture him. His multi-faceted career encompasses television, recordings, night club engagements and concert tours.
"Children, teeny-boppers, the college crowd and oldsters were united in their love for Williams. He drew some of the wildest applause ever heard at the stadium," reported the Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard last year.
Miller has been called "the successful missing link between country and pop music. The 30-year-old musician-humorist had composed and recorded several hit tunes including "King of the Road," "Dang Me" and "Chug-A-Lug."
Miller's music and humor reflect his background. He was born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma on a poverty-strecken farm. He quit school in the eighth grade.
Despite his present affluence, Miller remembers earlier hard times. "When you're poor you're always thinking of the things you'll do when you have money," he has said. "Now that I've got the money, I can't seem to remember what it was that I wanted so desperately."
The two singers plan to arrive in Kansas City Friday and come to Lawrence Saturday, Jim Fritzemeier, Wichita junior and concert chairman, said.
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Papandreous' condition is continuously failing
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condition and commitment. Many leading members of the Center Union Party, which Papandreou headed, assembled at the Evangelismos Hospital as the announcement was made. He was taken to the hospital last week for treatment of gastric bleeding.
Harrison's hearing may be Wednesday
Leonard Harrison, Ballard Community Center director, is now free on $5000 bond pending his appearance next Wednesday in the Sedgwick County Court of Common Pleas in Wichita.
Harrison, one of nine charged with the Oct. 17 assault and kidnapping of two Wichita Model Cities Program employees, was arrested in Lawrence Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Wichita Eagle said it is expected that the date for preliminary hearing for the nine will be set at the Wednesday appearance.
Arraigned yesterday morning before Common Pleas Judge Nicholas Klein were Samuel Jarvis Hunt, Topeka, and Vernon S. Pierce and Fred M. Johnson, both of Kansas City. Bond for the three was set at $5000—the same amount set for the three previously-arranged suspects.
Hunt, member of a Topeka group known as Organization for Citizen Representation, is also free on bond today.
The last three of the nine were arrested early yesterday in Kansas City. As they were led to waiting cars, they reportedly shouted the slogans, "Black is beautiful" and "I'm proud to be black." The three Kansas Citians were identified as Henry Douglas Davis, Noel Deford Newsom and Richard Lee Alexander.
Two members of the group, which is identified by Wichita police as a militant organization called The Black Guards, are employed by the local poverty agency. John Manning and Harold Cole, both arraigned Tuesday with Harrison, are now suspended from their posts with the Wichita Area Community Action Program, Inc. (WACAPI).
The nine are charged with seven counts of kidnapping, extortion and assault in an Oct. 17 incident at a mid-town motel. Alleged victims are identified as Rufus Blake, Wichita State University sociology professor and part-time employee of the Model Cities Program, and Frank Carpenter, assistant director of the planning group.
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