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QUIET PLEASE, QUIET—Nathaniel Sims, Pasadena, Calif., senior, asks yesterday's crowd of demonstrators for silence before Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe began his speech and reinstated 114 suspended students.
Wescoe Reinstates KU Demonstrators
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe expressed a desire to turn back the clock for exactly 32 hours yesterday before a group of approximately 350 persons outside Strong Hall.
Chancellor Wescoe said, "Now to turn back the clock completely. I was the one who placed your suspension in operation and by that same authority I now lift it. Your parents (of arrested demonstrators) were notified this morning of the suspension by telegram. They will be informed once more by telegram that you are reinstated with the understanding that the demonstrations will end."
STATEMENTS BY both Chancellor Wescoe and Nate Sims, Pasadena, Calf., senior and spokesman for the Civil Rights Council, brought an end to the sit-in protest which began at 10:30 a.m. Monday outside the chancellor's office.
The statements were made following a meeting at the chancellor's home between Chancellor Wescoe, Sims and George Unseld, Louisville, Ky., senior. Both Sims and Unseld are co-chairmen of the council with Walter Bgoya, Ngara, Tanganyika, senior.
"YESTERDAY, I told you I was prepared to discuss with you in a logical and fruitful way any problems you wanted to bring to me. We came to an impasse," Chancellor Wescoe said.
"I told you that as soon as All Student Council Bill #7 was sent to me I would sign it. This morning I signed it. The Kansan board will meet with the ASC and bring the advertising practices of the University Daily Kansan in line with the University.
"I have asked Dean L. C. Woodruff to work on a revision for the housing list statements. It has been drawn and is ready to be put into operation.
"I HAVE CONFERRED with the dean of the School of Education and asked that instances of discrimination be reviewed . . . I am assured there are none but we shall clarify this to everyone's concern.
"Until further notice we will disperse our protest sit-in demonstration and return tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. to the Kansas Union for a meeting of the CRC. All participants in the demonstration and other interested persons are requested to be there," Sims told the demonstrators.
Chancellor Wescoe also announced today that he does not wish to press charges against the students that were arrested Monday, but the final disposition will be up to the county attorney, James Gunn, Administrative Assistant to the Chancellor, reported today.
At a 2:30 meeting tomorrow, a committee made up of students, administration, and faculty, is scheduled to meet to discuss and set up a framework for problems that are to be discussed in the future.
The committee will discuss the advertising policies of the Daily Kansan, and will set up the time and agenda of future meetings. Members of the committee are:
Charles Warriner, professor of sociology; Jan Seaver, professor of history; Brian Leonard, professor of zoology; L. C. Woodruff, dean of students; Emily Taylor, dean of women; Donald Alderson, dean of men; Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior; Mike Miner, Lawrence senior; Art Spears, Kansas City senior; Pam Stone, Wichita senior, and Byron Loudon, Kansas City senior.
Ralph King, Douglas County Attorney, said that those arrested yesterday were charged with the violation of a state law, and they will be charged with a misdemeanor in county court. The students' arraignment will be Friday and they can plead guilty of the charges or not guilty. Conviction of the offense would carry a penalty of a fine in a sum not to exceed $100, or imprisonment in the city jail not to exceed three months.
A list of those arrested appears on page 12.
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Wednesday, March 10, 1965
Council Introduces Bill For Discrimination Board
Taylor also proposed an amendment to human rights bill No. 7, dealing with the advertising of the UDK and a resolution requesting the dean of the School of Education to explain the school's policy on civil rights.
Such a board would consist of: the dean of women; the dean of men; the dean of students; student body president; All Student Council chairman; two members of the Human Rights Committee and two members of the Civil Rights Council.
Taylor explained that the Board "is meant to be on a level with the other top committees in the University, ranking with the Disciplinary Committee."
A bill to establish a board to deal with complaints, relating to discrimination at KU was proposed at last night's All Student Council meeting in the Kansas Union.
HE NOTED the bill's sponsors contacted people involved with the recent civil rights sit in—CRC members, faculty, and administrators, in their drafting of the bill.
THE AMENDMENT would be a revision to section five of Bill No. 7 stating "that the UDK or any other university publication may not accept advertising with regard to accommodations from people
The bill sponsored by Hugh Taylor, Stoke on Trent, England, graduate student (UP, graduate school), Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president, Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, and Harry Bretschneider, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
THE BILL also gives the board the power to assess penalties if its rulings or decisions are not complied with in the cases of discrimination that it hears.
The major part of the bill states: "believing that the most cherished possession of society is the maintenance of the dignity of the human race. It shall be the purpose of this board to receive, investigate, and recommend action on all complaints in all areas of discrimination."
Weather
The warming trend will continue tonight and Thursday with partly cloudy skies and a high temperature tomorrow expected to reach the middle 40's. Tonight the low is to be around 20 to 25, the weather bureau said.
Bulletin
COLUMBIA, Mo. — (UPI)—The Columbia chapter of CORE filed a complaint today with the U.S. Department of Justice charging discrimination in the University of Missouri off-campus housing. It said it would picket the chancellor's office tomorrow if the demands were not met.
Chancellor John Schwada said the university has no power to control private individuals to provide off-campus housing even if the university wished to do so.
Schwada said the university certified such housing merely as a service to students and parents so minimal help and safety standards are maintained. He said the university does not have to certify off-campus housing and could discontinue the practice as one solution to the problem.
who aren't on the university housing list."
The resolution to obtain, in writing, a statement from the dean of the School of Education on its student teacher policies was passed unanimously by the Council on a voice vote.
This amendment and the bill, establishing a discriminatory board will be major items of business at the ASC meeting next Tuesday night.
APPROXIMATELY 20 members of the CRC including Nate Sims, Pasadena, Calif., senior and CRC president, George Unseld, Louisville, Ky., senior, and Walter Bgoyla, Ngara, Tanganyika, senior, were spectators at the meeting.
Sims was asked, after the discriminatory board bill was introduced, if this would be satisfactory to the CRC. He said that his group would have to have a meeting to discuss all the aspects of the bill.
"If it (the bill) doesn't work out the way it should, appropriate steps will be taken to see that it works," Sims said.
Jim Masters, Mission graduate student, said the CRC plans to investigate "where the power would be" on the board. He noted that he thinks there would be "blocks of power" with the faculty and administration on one side and the students on the other.
Sims said that the CRC will attend the Committee on Committees meeting at 7 p.m., Sunday, in the Kansas Union.
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ASC Takes Stand On Traffic Hazards
In other business conducted by the special All Student Council meeting last night, resolutions were passed starting inquiries on various traffic problems across the campus, and the possibility of bringing the KU cheering section back down to the bleacher seats at the basketball games.
Two resolutions were passed dealing with the 11th and Louisiana intersection leading into the Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall complex. One dealt with the repair of steps leading down to the intersection which are uneven and treacherous, and the other with the lack of traffic controls for cars entering the intersection, necessitated by the heavy amount of pedestrian traffic.
TRAFFIC PROBLEMS at Joseph
R. Pearson Hall were also acted upon by the ASC in a resolution concerned with the blocking of the parking area behind the hall during football games so that the residents of the hall could not get their cars in or out of the parking lot. Russell Cummings, Topeka graduate student (UP-Large Men's Residence Halls) proposed that season parking tickets for the lot be offered to the residents of JRP, and only a specified amount sold to non-residents to solve the problem.
A measure recommending that the cheering section be moved closer to the court during basketball games was passed, and will be submitted to the ASC Athletic Seating Board, and the University Athletic Corporation meetings this week for action.
WATCH, WAIT AND LISTEN-An anxious group of about 350 people listened to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe as he addressed the Civil
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Rights Council demonstrators and interested students.