ASC delays Code vote again
By TOM WEINBERG Kansan Staff Writer
Voting on the proposed Senate Code by members of the All-Student Council (ASC) was set aside until next week because of the passage of nine amendments to the Code and the election of seven students to serve on the Student Advisory Committee to select the next Chancellor at last night's ASC meeting.
Rick von Ende, chairman of the ASC and Abilene, Texas, graduate student, said, "we want to leave enough time for careful consideration of the Senate Code. The University Senate has not reached a decision about the proposed Senate Code and is presently going through it sentence by sentence. Therefore, I feel it in our best interest to wait a week to discuss it."
The only proposed Senate Code amendment that failed to pass dealt with incorporating living group representation with academic representation.
Joe Goering, Moundridge senior and vice president of the student body, said, "there are a lot of people that are under the assumption that the present Senate Code can't take care of the living group problems. I think all groups are included in the present Senate Code, and I don't feel there are any people who wouldn't be represented or who couldn't voice a problem to the Senate."
Two of the nine amendments passed dealt with the filling of vacancies on the Student Senate and Senate Council.
The proposed Senate Code provided that vacancies on the Student Senate and Council be filled by that individual who had received the second most votes in his academic district.
The first amendment to the Senate Code provides:
"Vacancies on the Student Senate in the elected representatives of the student body shall be filled by election by majority vote of the Student Senate of a member of the School of the University from which the vacancy arose at the first meeting of the Student Senate following the creation of such vacancy."
The second amendment to the Senate Code provides:
"Student vacancies on the Council shall be filled by election by the membership of the Student Senate from among its members."
Both amendments provide for an election instead of the system of co-option that now exists.
Two amendments were passed providing for
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79th Year, No.32 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, October 30,1968
Ballard director arrested here
Harrison's friends
try to raise bail
Ballard Center's Staff and Policy Advisory Committee met jointly last night to discuss future operations in view of the arrest of center director, Leonard Harrison, yesterday.
The groups also issued a statement of support and initiated a campaign to raise bail for Harrison.
The statement, issued by the Center's policy advisory committee yesterday afternoon, said, "We wish to declare publicly that we will continue to support Leonard Harrison as Director, despite the alleged charges against him.
"He deserves our support for the creative and challenging leadership he has given our center. Furthermore, Mr. Harrison should be accorded all the rights of every American to be considered innocent unless proved otherwise." The statement was signed by Edward E. Daub, chairman, and six board members.
While Harrison's bond is set at $5,000, the committee received a report that this might be lowered if $2,000 in cash, to be raised from Lawrence citizens, is presented to the court. The committee organized a campaign to raise this sum.
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By DIANE SAMMS Kansan Staff Writer
Leonard Harrison, director of the Ballard Community Center, is in Sedgwick County Jail in Wichita after his arrest yesterday on charges of conspiracy to kidnap, extortion and felonious assault.
Harrison had been identified by two Wichita men who charged that he and eight comrades assaulted them and threatened their lives when the two refused to hire a member of their group for a responsible position in the local Model Cities program.
Leonard Harrison
Alleged victims of the assault were Rufus Blake, Wichita State University sociology professor and part-time employee of the Model Cities program, and Frank Carpenter, assistant director of the city planning body.
John Manning and Harold Cole, both of Wichita, and Harrison were arraigned yesterday before Judge Nicholas Klein and bond was set at $5,000 for each of the men.
Each of the men was charged on one count of conspiracy to kidnap, two counts of extortion and two counts of felonious assault.
Three other members of the group, identified with a militant organization called The Black Guards by Wichita police, have also been arrested. Their names are being withheld until after their arraignment today in Sedgwick County Court of Common Pleas.
Three Kansas City men and one from Topeka are still being sought by Wichita police.
Warrants for the arrest of the men charge that they "did demand, under threats of violence to the persons of Rufus W. Blake and Frank Carpenter, that Al Cole be hired as a planner with the Model Cities Program, when in the opinion of Rufus Blake and Frank Carpenter he was not qualified for such position.
"That they did not allow Frank Carpenter and Rufus Blake to leave
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Lawrence Memorial denies admission to KU student
A KU student, injured in a home accident, was denied admission to Lawrence Memorial Hospital early Sunday and had to be taken to Watkins Hospital instead-even though his injuries apparently were severe.
Jack Lindquist, Kansas City sophomore, said he was cut badly when he fell through a plate glass window at his apartment at 900 Arkansas.
Lindquist and his roommates said attendants at Lawrence Hospital refused to allow them in the emergency room for treatment and directed them to Watkins.
A spokesman for Lawrence Memorial, who pointed out that Lindquist is a student, said they refused to treat him because they did not feel his injury required emergency care.
Lawrence Hospital officials said hospital policy dictates that injured or ill students should seek aid at Watkins Student Health Center. Officials also said the Health Center is designed for KU students and medical expenses are included in the students' fees.
At Watkins, two physicians were
Weather
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--summoned to work on the injured Lindquist. Several stitches were taken to repair a cut tendon, and a splint was taped to his finger. The doctors also bandaged a cut on his chin and applied a butterf'y bandage to his thigh. Lindquist was hospitalized for two nights and required intravenous feeding.
Smith said they had his hand wrapped in a towel. He said the nurses at Lawrence Memorial
"The tendon was sticking out of his hand and there was blood all over his pants and he was vomiting," said Randy Smith, Wichita sophomore and roommate of Lindquist who drove him to the hospital.
wouldn't even lift the towel to check the injury.
The students, who live at University Terrace apartments on 9th street, said they took Lindquist to Lawrence Memorial because it was closer.
After arguing with attendants at Lawrence Hospital, Smith said, they realized he would not be admitted and drove him to Watkins where he received immediate attention.
Dr. G. E. Manahan, who treated Lindquist, said parents complain of bills from Lawrence Memorial and that students who come there should be sent to Watkins unless the "emergency is obvious."
Kansas City marijuana find linked to campus fraternity
KANSAS CITY, $o.-Several boxes containing $15,000 to $20,000 worth of cured and uncured marijuana, with the return address of a KU fraternity house, were confiscated here Monday during a Kansas City police vice-squad raid.
Arrested during the raid was James Riley Mason, former University of California student.
Bill Tankersley, Norman, Okla. senior and president of the fraternity, said, "I don't know anything about the raid. The police haven't contacted us and no one here has even heard about it."
The news director for a Kansas City TV station said the return address on the boxes was that of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house at KU.
Although Mason was the only person in the raided house at 3200
Beacon St., police believe at least one other person is involved.
Mason who gives two addresses, one in Los Altos, Calif., and the other in Portland, Ore., owns a car purchased in Lawrence which bears Douglas County license plates.
It was not determined if Mason ever attended KU.
Police found more than 180 pounds of marijuana.
Police said the marijuana was in various stages of preparation. They found boxes and bags containing marijuana throughout the house.
Police also have evidence of airfreight shipments from Lawrence and Kansas City to the West Coast. $ ^{14} $ is believed the marijuana was
It is believed the marijuana was harvested locally.
Mason is being held in the Jackson County jail in lieu of a $3,500 bond. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 7.
HHH nears Nixon in poll
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
PHILADEPHIA -Richard M. Nixon's lead over Hubert H. Humphrey has narrowed to barely 3 percentage points as of last weekend, a poll indicated yesterday.
The Sindlinger survey indicated Humphrey has narrowed Nixon's edge to 3.2 per cent. The telephone poll also registered gains for third party candidate George C. Wallace, apparently at Nixon's expense.
Candidate preference was: Wallace 12.3; Nixon 36.8; Humphrey 33.6; undecided and other 17.3.
RFK foundation created
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Kennedy family announced yesterday creation of a foundation to "carry forward the ideals . . . and work" of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, assassinated last June in Los Angeles.
The announcement of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial was made by the late senator's widow, Ethel Kennedy, and his brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, at a news conference at Mrs. Kennedy's home in suburban McLean, Va.
Earthquake hits Alaska
FAIRBANKS, Alaska—A mountainous area of central Alaska was rocked yesterday by a large earthquake. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage.
The quake, lasting about three minutes, was recorded at 12:15 p.m. with a Richter Scale magnitude of 7. The University of California recorded the quake at 6.2 magnitude at its Berkeley campus.
In 1964, a quake with a Richter reading of 8.6 struck southern Alaska, killing 114 persons and destroying several towns.
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