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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 18, 1968
Spock to talk here Sunday
By Joanna Wiebe
Kansan Staff Reporter
Dr. Benjamin Spock, the internationally known pediatrician who was recently indicted by a federal grand jury as a result of vigorous opposition to the Vietnam war, is scheduled to speak in Hoch Auditorium Sunday at 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
At the lecture, sponsored by the Student Union Activities featured, speakers committee, Dr. Spock will define his position on what he calls "the illegality of the war in Vietnam."
The grand jury charges Spock and four others with "conspiracy to aid and abet resistance to the draft." A spokesman for Dr. Spock said last week the question of the legality of the Vietnam war will be a major factor in Spock's defense.
Spock was arrested in Boston in December during national Stop the Draft Week demonstrations, and is now awaiting trial with the rest of the "Boston Five" on the conspiracy charges.
The spokesman said Spock will plead "not guilty" to the charges
on the grounds that the war is illegal and that no conspiracy exists. Spock argues that the First Amendment gives him the right to express his opinions about the Vietnam war and the draft.
Draft resistance "is the most effective immediate form of resistance to the war," said Spock. He believes the draft is unconstitutional, because "it is not right for a President of the United States to have available this large reservoir of young men drafted and draftable without Congress declaring war."
"I would be in favor of Congress removing the draft in peacetime," he said.
Conviction on the conspiracy charge could carry penalties of up to five years in prison and a $10,-000 fine for each member of the alleged conspiracy.
Spock said, "I would like to emphasize that I think I am innocent, and I think the young men who are resisting the draft are innocent, patriotic and courageous, but, if the courts decide otherwise, then I am willing to go to iail."
Spock is not "seeking to go to
jail," he said. Those who think he is attempting to seek the status of a martyr would be "misunderstanding the situation," he said.
Spock was co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy until October 1967. He presently is co-chairman of the National Conference for New Politics, which he will represent in his KU speech.
A KU student has received one of 70 national Rockefeller Trial Year Fellowships awarded by the Fund for Theological Education, Princeton, N.J., for the 1968-69 academic year.
Student awarded Rockefeller grant
Terrill L. Gibson, Prairie Village senior, can study in any accredited theological institution with all institutional and miscellaneous fees paid for by the Fellowship.
DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK
Recipients must agree during the one year of study to seriously consider the ordained ministry as their vocation.
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Barnard coed live-in shut down
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Barnard College's Student-Faculty Judicial Council reprimanded Linda LeClair, 20, Wednesday for sharing an off-campus apartment with her boyfriend and recommended that she be banned from college social events and dining facilities.
Medical research gets $52,800
The Life Insurance Medical Research Fund has made two grants totaling $2,800 to KU.
Santiago Grisolia, professor of biochemistry and department chairman at the University of Kansas Medical Center, will have $33,000 for research in kidney disease. Morris D. Faiman, assistant professor of pharmaceuticals, received $19,800 in support of his study of the cardiovascular system.
But the coed, a sophomore, was allowed to stay in school, at least for the present.
The action of the council is subject to approval by the college president.
The council said Miss LeClair was guilty as charged, but noted that "a number of serious questions of principal might be raised with respect to the current housing regulations."
Miss LeClair has been living for two years with a Columbia University junior. Barnard rules bar students from outside the metropolitan area from living anywhere but in dormitories until they are
21, unless they hold live-in jobs.
21, unless they hold live-in jobs. She got permission to live off-campus after a friend posed as a mother who needed a live-in babysitter.
The college learned of Miss LeClair's living arrangement when a newspaper published a story about students living together.
Miss LeClair told the committee she broke the housing rule as a matter of conscience because Barnard College, the women's unit of Columbia University, discriminated against its students. Columbia has no such rule for men.
Bev Gibbs knows . . .
that a Cole Jr. will always start a conversation after that, it's up