Decisions made by UDB
The University Disciplinary Board in effect placed three students charged with disrupting a peace officers seminar April 23 in the Kansas Union on disciplinary probation in a decision reached this morning.
The board, which met yesterday for a hearing of the three in Swarthout Recital Hall, completed its deliberations about 1 a.m.
Only one of the defendants, Don Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo., junior, appeared at the hearing. Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student, and Bill Berkowitz, New York graduate student did not appear to answer the charges.
Russel Bradt, chairman of the board, said the following actions will be taken against the defendants:
1. Richard C. Atkinson, William K. Berkowitz and Donald Jenkins Jr. are hereby suspended from the University from the end of the present semester until the end of spring semester, 1970.
2. Because this is the first case of its
nature in which charges have been brought before this board, the board suspends the action taken in paragraph one and places the three involved on disciplinary probation from this date until the end of spring semester. 1970.
3. Donald Jenkins Jr. shall pay the sum of $64.50 to the University of Kansas as restitution for damage to tables in the Kansas Union.
The charges were filed in a letter to the UDB from the University Senate Executive Committee which is composed of six faculty members and three students.
Five witnesses appeared to corroborate charges against the three defendants.
The witnesses appeared in this order: Karl Kappelman, KU extension representative for institutes and conferences; Maynard Brazeal, director of peace officer's training; Derwood McCabe, Kansas Union Building manager; Frank Burge, Union director.
and Kevin A. Remick, Union concessions manager.
A university function
Kappelman explained the seminar was a University function because the school was funded by state and federal grants. He said the fact that the demonstrators were in the room was disruptive and that he had rented it.
McCabe's testimony revealed that damages to nine tables and the sound system amounted to $72.30. In later testimony it was learned that defendant Jenkins may have tripped over the microphone cord which resulted in the damage to the mike.
From at least three of the witnesses it was learned that at no time did anyone ask the demonstrators to leave the room.
During his testimony, 22 signed petitions submitted by Burge were excluded as evidence because there was no way to prove the signers knew the defendants.
During the last witness' testimony, Jenkins was seen handing a note to Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, who had withdrawn himself as a voting member but stayed to act as clerk.
Jenkins appeared
Jenkins, at the last minute, decided to appear with an adviser, Bill Hansen, Kansas City, Mo., first-year law student.
Jenkins said he did not consider the board legitimate, and asked the board why he had not been given an answer as to the legality of the disciplinary board to judge him. Jenkins proposed the question at last Thursday's "hearing."
In defense of Jenkins, Hansen said, "I have certain reservations about the staggering line of incompetent witnesses that have appeared here."
Hansen questioned whether the Union could be considered a legitimate
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79th Year, No.132 The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas Thursday, May 15, 1969
Final edition today.
This is the final edition of the University Daily Kansan for the semester. The Summer Session Kansan will begin bi-weekly publication June 10.
--concerning housing conditions is one prerequisite to solving the off-campus housing problem.
Housing's solutions few
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the final article in a series on student off-campus housing in Lawrence.)
By JOE BULLARD Kansan Staff Writer
Solutions to the off-campus housing problem are few and far between.
This semester, three suggestions as possible solutions for the off-campus housing problem have come out through meetings of the off-campus housing committee and other concerned groups.
The three solutions are: 1) provide students with written contracts, 2) provide a building inspector to inspect buildings before they are placed on the off-campus housing list in McCollum Hall, and 3) educate students to the problems they face when moving off-campus.
Members of the off-campus housing committee said education of students
Bulletin
The Student Off-Campus Housing Committee has prepared a lease form which will be available to any student requesting a written lease to present to their landlords.
Ed Higgins, Shawnee Mission sophomore and member of the housing committee, said copies of the lease will be available by May 18 in the lobby of the Kansas Union, the People-To-People-Office and the Off-Campus Housing Office in McCollum Hall.
Emily Taylor, dean of women, said, "The University should do everything it can to make students aware of two things: 1) the different places
students have available to them and 2) conditions students do not have to put up with such as racial discrimination and standard housing."
Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, thinks education of the tenant could be harmful and create more problems than it
would solve. Coan said educating students about substandard housing conditions and getting them to file complaints against landlords could result in the student being moved out
Disagreement exists between administration and student members who serve on the
off-campus housing committee, as to the value of KU's off-campus housing office.
There is no "approved" housing at KU in the sense that someone goes out and inspects the building before the building is listed with the off-campus
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President Nixon proposes peace plan
PARIS (UPI) - The Viet Cong today rejected President Nixon's call for a mutual withdrawal of U.S. And North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam, calling it "unjust and unreasonable."
The statement did not mention other points in Nixon's eight-point peace proposal made on television last night.
Its highlights:
All U.S., Allied and non-South Vietnamese forces would start withdrawing as soon as
agreement is reached. Major units would pull out over a 12-month period in previously agreed-on stages. Remaining units would then move into designated base areas "and would not engage in combat operations."
North Vietnam would withdraw not only from the South but from Cambodia and Laos as possible communist bases for renewed fighting. The United States would not debate
Hanoi's insistence it has no troops in South Vietnam but would insist on "reliable assurances" that they aren't there.
An international supervisory body would verify withdrawals, help arrange supervised ceasefires and other tasks ordered by both sides. As soon as possible after it starts work, elections would be held under its supervision.
Senate meets, passes six of 15 resolutions
In a four-hour meeting of the Student Senate last night, six out of 15 resolutions and amendments were passed.
Establishment of a committee to conduct student opinion polls
Amidst a deluge of procedural entanglements, the Senate passed resolutions concerning: Appointment of a Graduate Student's Affairs committee to consider "matters of concern to graduate students."
Fortas quits
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas has submitted his resignation to President Nixon, it was announced today.
at student elections concerning general attitudes of students.
Endorsement of the creation of a summer tutoring camp for disadvantaged students. The program has been set up and is being sponsored by Black Student Union, the University Council for Urban Action, the Student Senate and the Corporation Board of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Appointment of the Student Senate Executive Committee to formulate a program of a student exchange bookstore.
Denunciation the conditions ofmuch of the available off-campus housing, and establishing a rating system directed by a Housing Commission.
Removal of the voting privileges of the Dean of Students, Dean of Men and the
Dean of Women as "employees of the University."
Of the nine remaining amendments and resolutions, four were referred to committees for later consideration, three were tabled, one failed. The final amendment could not be taken up in last night's meeting because of a precedural restriction.
The nine were:
A resolution to remove graduation credit from ROTC courses. The resolution was referred to the Student Senate Executive Committee.
A resolution to establish a procedure through which amendments, statutes and resolutions are submitted to a reviewing committee before being introduced to the senate. The resolution was tabled.
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Special section today
Today's Kansan features a special section on poverty in Lawrence. The articles within the section, all written by Kansan staff writers and executive reporters, represent 21/2 months of in-depth study of Lawrence's poverty problem.
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