University Daily Kansan, December 6, 1982
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signaled to a man in the press box, who announced that the review was canceled.
Ronald Doyen, the protestors who now lives in Cincinnati, said, "It was something that was planned as a political gesture of opposition to the war."
Doyen was one of 36 students suspended from June 1, 1969, to June 1,
1970, for not leaving the field when Wescow and the cadets entered. Doyen said most of the suspended students were surprised at the severity of the punishment, especially considering that the protest was non-violent.
Doyen said he lost his student classification when he was suspended.
The Student Senate also was formed that year. Awbrey was the first student body president who served with the Senate. He said that before he became senator, he had commented, he had believed in working outside the system to achieve change.
But by working with the Senate, Abwrey said, he and the other student representatives learned how to get students to understand the political sophistication and skills.
Awbrey said that in 1969 the students shared the vision of a new society.
BUT BAILLEY the vision itself has a lot to do with the movement's bearer.
"The goals were basically pretty narrow, petty, privileged student-oriented problems and prejudices," he said.
Bailey, who now lives in Wichita, was a Lawrence resident and not a student. He said the vagueness of the movement killed it because the students did not develop specific goals or ways to achieve them.
He said the fact that the people were not committed to any ideology, and
consequently had no solid plan of action, added to the movement's demise.
BAILEY RECALLED that some of the students he lived with in a cooperative house on Tennessee Street complained when he wanted to kill a man he thought was his boss. The students, who were vegetarians, called him a "human chauvinist."
The laissez-faire lifestyle of the movement attracted some less politically motivated students, he said.
Doyen said he began to lose his idealism in the early '70s when he stopped protecting and began studying for his master's degree in psychology. He said he then realized that some of the students active in the movement were mostly trying to enhance their own political power.
Awbrey said that in the early '70s he realized that his generation, like those of his predecessors, had a
One local event that several of the former students indicated was a reason for the disintegration of the movement for Gassall. The head of Gassall, a bar near the Kansas Union.
Harry Nicholas Rice died in a clash between students and police on July 19, 1970. His death followed a violent spring, during which the Union burned, several KU buildings were bombed and race riots erupted at Lawrence High School. Gov. Robert Docking declared a curfew in Lawrence that spring.
"IT WAS scary," Bailey said.
"All of a sudden everybody had finals," he said.
He said that after the summer when Rice died, everyone seemed to disappear.
John Sanford, a 1970 KU graduate,
said the events of that spring and
summer stunned the people who
believed in violence. Some of them hid
and others retreated into isolated
campas.
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Sanford said the need for the movement ended, for him, with the end of the Vietnam War.
At the same time the student movement ground to a halt, Sanford and the other former students dispersed across the nation.
PRUITT GRADUATED from KU in May 1973 with a bachelor's in education. She left her job with American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and went to work as an accountant in AT&T's home office in New Jersey.
She said that after experiencing the movement, she discovered that her purpose was to be an adult member of society.
Awbrey graduated in 1972 with a master's degree in religion. He decided after graduating to take up his father's profession — journalism. He said he was attracted to journalism because, unlike most other professions, it did not seem to him to be filled with people who were out for themselves.
She said her religious values also changed. She began to question her
"You set your goals and you follow them," she said.
So, he said, liberal editor John McCormally hired him to shake up conservative Burlington, Iowa, as a reporter for the Burlington Hawk Eye. Awbrey that although he wrote a few editorials, rather than shaking anyone up, he mostly covered the police and the courts.
IN IOWA he married the woman he had been living with at KU. They later left the country for Paris because, he wrote, "I love France, and I live in the United States because of Watergate."
He returned to the United States in 1975 and got a job as a reporter for the United Press International in Maryland.
While in Maryland, Awbrey said, he read a book that changed him — William Allen White's autobiography. The book, he said, helped him discover his roots as a progressive populist from Hutchinson.
At that time he also read some of the writings of H.L. Mencken, which he said helped him organize his values. Mencken hated all politicians, as he did.
He said that by the time he went to work for the Illinoisan, the last
"THE PROCESS of my disillusionment is never-ending," he said.
Bailey hac' worked for Keufel and Esser, an engineering supply company in Wichita, since 1974. He said he had not taken part in any political activity since the early '70s. He remembered that the last time he voted in an election he was asking himself at 7:30 that night he had voted for Ruben Humphrey.
Bailey said that today he still studied Marxist-Leninist doctrine as he had since the early '70s, when he was trying to build an ideological foundation for the KU student movement. All he can do now is wait for a revolution, he said.
"I would like, personally, to have a role in — however limited or however small — a genuine revolutionary movement," he said.
But he said there was not a true revolutionary Marxist-Leninist party, so he was not really a Marxist-Leninist. OTHERS SAID they felt they were
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Sanford is the director of a 24-hour crisis prevention center in Fort Collins, Colo. He said his job allowed him to be "on hand" for the emergency he did in the late '60s and early '70s.
"I tried to work within the system now," she said within the system now, "she works."
accomplishing some of the ideals of their past through their work.
McNeely directs a mental health clinic in East Palo Alto, Calif., as well as two other locations.
Doyen works in a community mental health clinic in Cincinnati.
He said he financially supported different political and citizen's groups that shared the goals that the student movement espoused.
"IF I CAN T really change the world, I can at least help people," he said.
Doyen said he had contributed to the Hunger Relief Fund and to public interest research groups.
Awbrey said he still tried to cause change by trying to sway opinions with his editorials. He still thinks that the country's foreign policy is a disaster, and he is glad he can be a part of the flow of history by speaking out.
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