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Friday, October 12, 1973
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Peace Pact Signed in Vietnam; Campus Demonstrations Decline
Demonstrations are one barometer of student activism. The past five years at the University of Kansas have seen mass gatherings grow in numbers and strength and then gradually decline, mostly because the Vietnam War is over.
The fall of 1988 was fairly quiet before the election, but over 200 people participated in a 224-hour vigil in October to focus attention on starvation in Biafra.
On election day, as Richard Nickon swept to victory, 101 students marched in a "Funeral for the Democratic Process" for their Students For a Democratic Society (SDS).
L. Gen, Lewis Walt, assistant commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, came to town a few days later and 200 peace demonstrators greeted him.
In 1969 the number of demonstrations increased and the tone became more strenuous.
In March about 130 people occupied and later picketed the Holiday Inn Restaurant. They charged the management with a racist policy.
In April a group of 200 demonstrators marched into Strong Hall, temporarily disrupted voting and broke a ballot box. They were followed through the Military Science building.
As war protests escalated, ROTC became a focus for demonstrators. April 30, a group of demonstrators disrupted the ROTC review in front of Allen Field House.
THEY MARCHED among the cadets, bringing them and shading tumourous asians at the barracks.
On May 9, 150 demonstrators disrupted the KU military review taking place in the stadium. Thirty-eight of these students were included, including the student body vice-president.
The nationwide peace moratorium in the fall of 1969 absorbed all protein energy that was produced.
About 2,500 students, faculty and townpeople marched down Memorial Drive Oct. 15 to protest the Vietnam War. Some faculty members returned their pay for that
About 100 KU students joined the moratorium in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 14 and 15. The same day, KU students were invited to participate in the war, in a demonstration in Topeka.
THE FIRST PROTEST of 1970 was in February when 200 students marched from campus to the Douglas County Courthouse to protest the conviction of the Chicago 7.
The Black Student Union (BSU) protested when Attty, Gent. Kenk Frizzell failed to deliver a ruling on whether the BSU had the right to publish its newspaper, the *Journal of the Members of BSU* seized 6,000 copies of the Kansan and dumped them in Potter Lake.
A strike was organized April 8 against the Board of Regens after the board passed over the promotions of two professors, Lawrence Velvel, associate professor of law, and Fredric Litto, acting professor of speech and drama.
David Awhire, student body president, spoke to a crowd of 4,000 people in front of Strong Hall and demanded that the regents declare a strike over the budget of 8,000 students in Allen Field House that
A convocation was held May 8 at which Chancellor Chalmers presented a proposal to give each individual student the choice of whether he would continue to attend classes. The proposal was overwhelmingly positive and gave vote of the 13,000 students attending.
Campus remained fairly quiet until July, when a black and a white youth were killed by police. The first death set off a series of disturbances which led to the second death. A memorial march attended by 400 people was held for the two youths.
In late November the BSU called a strike in support of Gary Jackson a first year law student and former assistant to the dean of men who had been fired by the University. In September the day after in Tepeza with student funds the day after a black youth was killed in July.
In December, 80 black students marched
Jayhawk Boulevard to protest the
damage in their neighborhood.
Things were calmer in 1971. The first protest of the year took place in February when members of the local SDS protested against the police at campus. Two hundred attended the rally.
a college degree was useless and blew his nose on an American flag.
IN 1972 the February Sisters protested the lack of adequate day care centers for children of university women. Several callers were held in front of Strong Hall.
A RALLY MAY 6 in front of Strong Hall, was attended by 1,000 students. It was followed by a memorial march for the students killed at Kent State.
The Kansas Relays were interrupted temporarily for a protest statement by
Fall 1972 remained quiet. The one rally of any size was sponsored by the BSU to protect the killing of two students at the university campus of Southern University.
A few days later, as classes ended for the semester, a peace protest vigil began in the rotunda of Strong Hall. About 100 people sat in the rotunda and outside the chancellor's office all night, the next day and the next night.
several hundred demonstrators protesting renewed bombing in Vietnam.
On May 4, about 300 people joined a Vietnam moratorium march from McCormick Field.
When students returned last spring, several hundred marched from Strong Hall to South Park to protest the renewed bombing of North Vietnam.
AFTER SPRING BREAK, students, about 10, marched from Strong Hall to Central Park, again in support of Indians at Wounded Knee.
In April a coalition of minority and radical organizations held a rally attended by 200 to protest budget cuts made by President Obama, who shawkhawk Boulevard encountered the rally.
Two night time protest marches, the first involving 600 people, spun off the occupation of Strong Hall. Few arrests were made, though the marchers had no permit.
No one has demonstrated this fall.
Anti-war protest generated the most enthusiasm. Now that the war is over, it is unlikely that large demonstrations will appear again on campus, until activists can find an issue to unite a broad spectrum of students.
Recently, $440,000 was approved by the legislature or building modifications for the new building.
in the past five years will continue in the future.
FLINT HALL'S third floor, now an attic used primarily by photography classes, will be made into regular classroom space, said Michael Bassett of Facilities, Planning and Operations.
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The third floor auditorium in Strong Hall will be remodeled, gaining new seating, a new stage and an additional bar.
The space in Lindley Hall once occupied by the Kansas Geological Survey, will become laboratories, offices and classrooms, Lawton said.
WECHERT SAID a two-story addition to Learned Hall, which will house all classes and labs formerly held in the Mechanical Engineering Building, will begin in 30 days. Other projects still in the planning stage include:
a visual arts center at the site of the Mechanical Engineering Building to be
a new law school building to be completed in Fall, 1977
—a computer center in the long-range plans
"This building trend is all part of a plan to take these facilities out of the center of the campus which do not, contribute to its academic part," Weichert said.
THE PLAN already is noticeable with the moving of the State Geological Survey Building, Robinson Gym, and McCollum Laboratories to the edge of the campus.
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