University Daily Kansan
Friday, November 9, 1979
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Iranian action stirs violence on campuses
By the Associated Press
Turned掌端 on a student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, has sparked scattered incidences of violence from students on U.S. college campuses.
In St. Louis a man with a shagged entered a boardroom office at St. Louis University's Center for the Study of American school's Iranian students, saying he was going to shoot them. He was disarmed and then escaped.
The gmanm, identified as Charles Regna, 29, was disarmed by security chief Jeffrey Bliss Hospital for observation and the 12-gauge shotgun he was carrying was on his shoulder.
Michael Blatz, the university's director of public relations, said the german entered administration building, about 1.48 p.m. and ordered switchboard operator Joaquim Marques to leave.
Two students spotted the gunman and tortured police. Blatz said. The second of the three was able to get inside the gunman dropped the shotgun shells he was carrying and ordered the student to retrieve them.
Blatz said Regna told authorities he was trying to get the names of between 30 and 40 Iranian students on the campus so he could shoot them.
"He was going to kill them. This young man was very upset," Blatz said. "No shots were fired, thank God, and nobody was bruised or injured."
Blatz said several hundred people were in the five-floor administration building at the time of the incident. Regna's shotgun had three shells in, he said.
In Pittsburgh, an Iranian student assaulted on the Pittsburgh State University campus Wednesday, was released from the hospital and released by the university. A group of American hostages in Iran had prompted
"The guy who hit me, I never ... said Masdou Assir, 21. "I guess he was mad" about the Americans being held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The armed head liberators on Wednesday attacked by an assassin wearing a skim mask.
Another student, 29-year-old Mahmoud Makwand, was struck in the face by the masked man, but did not require hospital treatment.
Campus security officers said the assistant ran from the scene and disappeared. The statements had been taken from several witnesses, but no suspect was in custody by day.
Meanwhile, the library on the Rollins campus was one very early excused yesterday after two callers identified themselves as Iranians and said they had hidden bombs in the building.
Campus police said two calls were made about a woman who another about 10 minutes later. Earlier identified as an Iranian student who had planted a bomb in the building, police said.
No complete evacuation of the building was ordered, and a search found no explosives.
Iranian students at KU advised to remain calm
By JUDY WOODBURN Staff Renorter
The president of KU's Iranian Student Organization said last night that he had advised members of the ISO to remain calm despite the harassment that some Iranian students have received since Sunday's protests. E. Emsslay in Tehran to Iranian students.
T Iranian students at the embassy have taken 60 Americans hostage and have demanded the return to the exiled shell, the treated for cancer in a New York hospital.
The president of KU's ISO, Hossein Mahlallati, said, "We have informed all of our members to try to remain cool whenever tempers are up or people are in conflict. We have told them to try to calmly explain their views to individuals, but they are not going to start that might start a conflict. We see that it would be good for us or the Americans."
He said a group of Moslem students had canceled a march that had been scheduled for today to protest Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's presence in the United States.
It was canceled after this problem began in Iran because the Moslem students wanted to get married with someone whose sequences of a march now would not benefit the Iranian students or the American students.
Mansou Taterhadem, assistant resident director at Hashing尔山, said he was concerned about violent acts against him. He said the accused were secured at Pitiful State University.
"But Lawrence seems more civilized than some of the other Kansas towns I've been to," he said. "I am talking to resident assistants at other halls so that they can encourage Iranian students to be as calm as sympathetic American feelings."
Although two Iranian students at Pittsburgh State were punched in the face Wednesday by an unidentified man, no evidence had been reported at KU as of yesterday.
David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., said he was not able to verify that a teacher operator concerning Iranian students accurately operating concern Iranian students.
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