---
First night
SINCE 1889
A tale of love and identity from the Bard opens tonight. See page 6
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 54 (USPS 650-640)
Cool Details page 3.
Sneak attac
A dog carefully paddled
Two football players will arguments at a hearing to that the College of Liberal Sciences interpreted the satisfactory progress rule to give them any chance of be able to play this season, course.
Player
According to documents tailback Lynn Willia linebacker Dane Griffin in County District Court on the players also say that on lege decided how it was g terpetrol the rule, the Colleg wrong criteria to deter status.
The players had filed the University Sept. 19 were declared inelegible plying with the satisfacti rule.
The court documents players' response to the U motion for dismissal of the on Oct. 8. The University for a change of venue at asking that the case be Douglas County.
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
The National Collegiate Association established
Offici
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Faced with a Michi prohibits the men's playing a game wil Louisville unless it it the University of Del play neither, an Athle said yesterday.
Gary Hunter, assi said no final decision Athletic Department ploring their options.
"However, it appea playing either Detroit
StudJ
Student Senate e as scheduled.
By Bonnie Sny Of the Kansan st
The Student
Committee last m
same Senate seat
rejected last week
See related store
implementation the first
numbers were b in
University rather than on
enrollment figure
used, Tony
StudEx, said la
The 20th-day
official enrolm
They are used in
sity's budget.
See related story
David Day,
Prof denounces choice of Tacha for court judge
20
Tacha was nominated for the position Oct. 30 by President Reagan. If confirmed by the Senate, she will be the second woman in history to be appointed to the 10th circuit bench.
The attorney of Myra Hinman, associate professor of English for 25 years, sent a letter by express mail today to Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., chairman of the committee.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
The letter, written by Hinman's at.
A KU associate professor of English opposed the nomination of Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, as judge for the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a letter mailed yesterday to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Hinman said Tacha wasn't upholding an agreement signed by the University with the U.S. Department of Labor in 1982 that emphasized equal employment opportunities at KU.
Phelps said that Hinman filed a sex discrimination suit against the University of Kansas and some faculty members in the late 1970s, before Tacha was appointed vice chancellor in 1881. The lawsuit, which is pending in the U.S. District Court in Topeka, criticizes KU employment policies. The suit includes promotion, recruiting and tenure deficiencies for women and other minorities.
Phelps said Tacha hires few minorities and underpays the ones who already work at the University.
Kansan Magazine
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1985
Rallies today contrast with those of past years
The protests and rallies of today on the steps of Strong Hall ring of divestment and anti-aparheid.
EP. 1420.
Protestors stage peaceful demonstrations against racial segregation. And if necessary, they are led willingly and quietly away by police.
Fifteen years ago, local protests weren't made of the stuff they are today. Fifteen years ago, a city rocking was a city rocking with segregation, shootings, snipers and arson. And the violence.
And the University of Kansas was a campus noted for unrest, as the curfews and Chicago Seven activist Abbie Hoffman at Allen Field House.
Arlen Field Hill. Although the demonstration at which four people died at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio made headlines, Kansas received its share of controversy. The M
The May 1970 issue of Time magazine ran a picture of police spraying mace at student at Lawrence High School, 2017 Loma slain St. who were rioting outside the article lead with, "Violence is no stranger to Lawrence, a community of 40,000
The article told of a town "churning with violence." During the tension-filled month of April 1970, flames lit the sky, gunshots crackled in the night air and police and National Guardsmen patrolled the streets of the town.
A fire at the Kansas Union on April 20, 1970 caused $2,000,000 in damages. Officials determined the cause to be arson. The arsonist was never apprehended. Each loss is worth $10,000.
Early in May, arsonists bit again, this time at Haworth Hall, and a bomb failed to explode in a bank near campus. A week later, a fire, set by a firebomb, gutted a Lawrence furniture store. Snipers shot at firemen who came to fight a fire in an off-campus building.
April 13 and 14, 1970 — Fourteen black students at Lawrence High School, aided by members of KU's Black Student Union, seized high school administrative offices for the afternoon. They demanded the hiring of two black teachers and teachers aides, selection of a black homecoming queen and the addition of black studies courses.
Students voted 924 to 167 not to accept the blacks' demand for the selection of black cheerleaders.
April 15 — Violence broke out because of resentment. About 150 black youths — some armed with clubs and chains, gathered in Veterans Park, across the street from the school. They rushed Lawrence High, breaking 21 windows and overwhelming security guards before police reinforcements drove them back with mace and tear gas.
April 16 - Central Junior High School, 1400 Massachusetts St., was
evacuated because of a bomb scare.
Black students at West Junior High,
2700 Harvard Rd., re-requested a
meeting with the principal. The principal
turned the students down, saying
it would be "impropriate."
"appropriate."
Racial tension prompted 30 parents to withdraw their children from Central. Teachers were stationed at the doors of the school to control the students.
图
April 22 — Gov. Robert Docking declared a state of public emergency. Twenty-five city troopers and 242 National Guardmen were enriched to help fatigued local police enforce an 8 p.m. to 6 m. curfew.
Phone lines were overloaded. KU student body was obeyed. David Awbrey was arrested for breaking curfew, and was sentenced to $125 and six months in jail.
April 23 - Seven fire-bombings or attempted fire-bombings were reported. Boards painted black and studded with nails were put across roadways to slow police.
May 1, 1970 — President Richard Nixon told Pentagon officials of his dislike for "these bums blowing up campuses."
May 11 — The cost of disturbances to the city was reported at
by Rocks and Rain.
During the night, a large group rushed Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers' house, breaking a window with a rock. Fire bombs were hurled at the home of District Court Judge Frank Gray. Fires were set at laundromats and apartments.
May 4 - Four people died and 11 were wounded during a demonstration at Kent State.
$21,000 for security and overtime.
July 13 — Harry "Nick" Rice, 18,
a Leawood freshman, was shot and
killed during a confrontation between
Lawrence police and a group of
young people in the 1200 block of
Oread Avenue. Another student was
shot.
Witnesses said police threw tear gas at people trying to set a car fire after the crowd ran out of the Rock Chalk Cafe, 618. W 12th St. It isn't known whether police or a sniper fired the fatal shot.
July 16 — KU freshman Donald Rick Dowdell, 19, was killed by a police officer after a car chase. He was pursued by police after leaving the Afro House, a black culture center. He and a friend had gone to the center after a shooting incident in the predominantly black area of east Lawrence.
July 17 — Snipers' gunfire rang through the city. Police cars were damaged by rvcs and bricks. Duggar
July 18-19 - Police used tear gas to disperse a rock-throwing crowd after trash fires were set in the street. Arrests were made for ag-.
gravated assault, carrying concealed weapons and possession of marijuana.
Neither school nor law officials could explain the sudden outbreak of violence that year. Kansas had no recent history of radical activity. Blacks were so outnumbered that there had been little serious racial trouble in the past.
"There was an awful lot of excitement during that time." Lee Young, professor of journalism, said recently. "Quite a lot of the students really were concerned about racial problems and Vietnam, but there were also a lot along for the ride."
Young, who was acting dean of the School of Journalism during the violence, said what stood out most in his mind about the turbulent times when he was in New York.
"I was at a meeting of publishers and deans in New York," Young said. "I got a call at a sit in the morning about the Union burnning down."
Young said he then rushed to the lobby of the hotel and picked up a copy of the New York Daily News.
"On the cover of the paper was the scene at Lawrence High, and inside was the story of the fire," he said. He returned to Lawrence. He said groups of students and faculty members took shifts guarding campus buildings.
"We guarded the buildings all night for about a week," Young said.