Charges Against Sit-Ins Dropped
Charges of disturbing the peace have been dropped for 107 KU students and former students arrested during a two-day civil rights demonstration in March.
The charges were dropped Aug. 30 by the Douglas County attorney's office. The office declined at that time to give a reason for dropping the charges.
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Dan Young, assistant county attorney, said, "We're not going to give any reason. We just thought it was an opportune time to drop the charges."
County attorney Ralph King had handled the prosecution of the charges.
The charges stemmed from a civil rights protest demonstration March 8 and 9 in which more than 300 Negro and white students protested alleged discrimination at KU with a two-day sit-in outside the office of W. Clarke Wescoe.
When the students refused to leave
the second floor of Strong Hall at the end of the first day, 110 were arrested. They were charged, jailed and released that night. A march on the Chancellor's residence followed that night, and the sit-in resumed.
Approximately 32 hours after it began, the demonstrators were dispersed following a promise from Wescoe that he would meet with a civil rights committee to review the charges and demands made by the demonstrators.
The University Human Relations Committee was formed and met regularly during the spring. By the end of the semester, the UHRC had reviewed residence hall room assignment policies, practice teacher placements, and advertising policies in campus publications.
Of the 107 cases in which charges were dropped, 15 had been pending in district court and 92 in county court. Three demonstrators were acquitted by the county court May 19.
Study Probes Birth Defects
Attempts to understand the complex machinery of a new life before birth-normally and sometimes abnormally-will continue at KU under a renewed research grant of $44,-419 from The National Foundation-March of Dimes.
Byron S. Wenger, associate professor of comparative biochemistry and physiology, is project director.
The KU study is one of several March of Dimes-supporter projects probing the mysteries of growth and development which sometimes occur abnormally to cause birth defects.
The growth of a new life, animal or human baby, from the first single fertilized egg cell to a billion-celled entity ready for birth is more than cell multiplication. The process requires cell differentiation and specialization on a precise time schedule, directed by genetic factors and influenced by environment.
Miss America, Deborah Bryant Plans Medical Education at KU
Miss Bryant, from Overland Park, Kan., was to enter KU as a junior transfer student this fall. She previously attended Christian College, a junior college for women in Columbia, Mo.
Miss Debbie Bryant. Miss America of 1966 and onetime KU-bound junior, will delay entering the University for at least one year.
Her selection as Miss America will cause Miss Bryant to forego her KU education for at least a year. Each Miss America must spend the year of her reign traveling about the country.
Miss Bryant has planned to study at KU and then enter the KU school of medicine to prepare for a career in pediatrics. Her goal is work with "Project Concern," a volunteer organization in Southeast Asia.
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Religion School Names Assistant
The Rev. Hugh Stouppe has been appointed assistant to William J. Moore, dean of the Kansas School of Religion.
The Rev. Stoupe will handle administrative matters and will assist Paul Shivel in the School's development campaign.
The Rev. Mr. Stouppe has had missions experience in China and has served Tonganoxie Methodist Church for the past two years. He is also an assistant instructor and graduate student in the English department, completing requirements for a master of arts degree.
Prof. Wenger and his colleagues hope to pinpoint the role of certain enzymes which are responsible for nerve cell differentiation in the early growth of chick embryos.
He holds degrees from Muskingum College and Boston University. He has also had development assignments with the Nebraska Methodist Conference, the Community Christian Church, Kansas City, Mo., and Baker University at Baldwin.
They will concentrate their studies on chicks with an hereditary crooked neck defect and stunted growth. It is possible to duplicate this abnormal condition in other chicks by injecting the yolk sac with nicotine at the proper time.
The investigators hope to compare the chemical processes involved in differentiation in the two similar conditions, one produced through hereditary and the other through environmental influence.
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