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For human rights
Gus diZerega, Wichita senior, presents a resolution to the Student Senate calling for recognition of human right of protest and dissent without infringing on the rights of others.
George's resolution
A resolution introduced by Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., senior, at last night's Student Senate meeting was easily passed on a hand vote. Later Gus diZerega, a co-author of the resolution denied allegations by two area television stations that it was a direct slap at Gov. Robert Docking.
The resolution is printed below.
The resolution is printed below.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, under the new Senate Code the Student Senate of the University of Kansas is empowered, within the law, "to formulate such rules and regulations as it shall deem wise and proper for the control and government of such affairs of the University as directly and primarily affect the students of the University and to take such steps as it shall deem necessary for their implementation and administration;" and
WHEREAS, the Student Senate recognizes that student control over student affairs can never become a reality until the Student Senate itself takes the initiative in confronting the responsibilities of its leadership; and,
WHEREAS, the Student Senate will not accept the principle of interference in traditionally autonomous affairs of the University Community by exterior pressures;
THEREFORE, be it resolved that the Student Senate direct the Committee on Student Rights, Privileges, and Responsibilities to prepare guidelines for the approval of the Student Senate on the issue of student dissent at the University of Kansas; and
Be It Further Resolved that the Student Senate recognizes that attempts by non-student bodies to usurp these newly-opened channels of student responsibility would be detrimental to the progressive atmosphere of the University and would constitute a crisis for student leadership at Kansas University.
Respectfully submitted,
Peter F. George
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
An eight-floor jump; ain't nothin' to it!
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The leaper was poised on an eighth-floor ledge of the hotel. A crowd began to gather below on busy Wilshire Boulevard. Then a fire truck happened to drive by
The men of Engine Co. 32 are used to dealing with persons attempting suicide. They immediately sized up the situation and radioed for a truck with a lifesaving net.
But their call went out too late. The man jumped and plunged in a swan dive 84 feet to the ground. Figuring there might still be a chance to save his life, the firemen summoned an ambulance.
If the story seems like it was right out of the movies, it was.
May 13 1969 KANSAN 5
The leaper was Leonard Terry, 28, a stuntman filming a scene Monday for a movie called "Run Shadow Run" for 20th Century-Fox.
The force of the impact jarned his knee into his jaw and he was knocked cold. Terry was revived by oxygen and was only slightly hurt.
DiZerega's resolution
In a roll call vote on a resolution introduced by Gus diZerega, Wichita senior, at last night's Student Senate meeting, one vote made the difference. The measure was passed, with 42 voting for and 41 voting against the resolution.
There were no abstentions. Thirteen members of the Senate were absent.
What follows is a transcript of the resolution and the roll call vote.
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS WHEREAS the fact
AERELAS, the forced cancellation of the annual ROTC Review last Friday infringed upon the right of ROTC students to peaceful assembly; and,
WHEREAS, our government has, in the words of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur "kept us in a perpetual state of fear—kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor—with the cry of a grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not rally behind it by garnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."; and,
WHEREAS, those demonstrating stated that the demonstration took place solely in opposition to the various manifestations of this military system of which ROTC is an integral part as well as being its most visible symbol on American college campuses;
WHEREAS, this situation exists mainly because of the military-industrial complex, the one threat and the one issue warned of by President Eisenhower in his farewell address to the American people, which has, since that time, cruelly violated the most basic rights to life and liberty of the people of the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and elsewhere; and,
THEREFORE, Be It Resolved that the Student Senate of the University of Kansas expresses its sorrow that the military powers in the United States are so entrenched and so unassailable through normal democratic processes that some students feel they must trample on the rights of others in order to make their opposition effective, and urges peaceful actions on the part of all students to oppose and greatly restrict the control and influence of the military. We urge further that in this continuing struggle to reaffirm the values of individual freedom and a non-coercive society, men and women of good will will not violate the same rights so cruelly abused by the forces they oppose, for a truly free society cannot be built on a base of slaughtered freedoms.
Respectfully submitted.
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Roll call vote
Centennial College: Yes-Marsha Hildreth (ISP), Kathy Newcomer (Ind), Chuck Oldham (Ind), Carol Scheier (ISP), Gregg Thomas (ISP). No-none. Absent-none.
Corbin College: Yes—Kristie Avery (ISP), Mark Biddle (Ind), Bill Ebert (Ind), Jeff Lough (ISP). No—Karon Baucom (Ind). Absent—none.
North College: Yes—Tom Coleman (ISP). No—Andy Anderson (ISP). Suzanne Kelly (ISP). Absent—Linda Allen (ISP).
Oliver College: Yes—Dennis Embry (Oliver College Coalition-OCC), Joseph Miller Jr. (OCC), Brad Smoot (OCC). No-Marty Fankhauser (Ind), Mary McGovern (OCC). Absent-none
Pearson College: Yes—Kathy Hoefer (CC). No—Suzy Bocell (Pearson College Coalition—PCC), Gary Coslett (PCC), David Miller (PCC), Lesley Perrine (PCC). Absent—none.
School of Architecture and Urban Design: Yes-Robert Bruno (ISP). No-none. Absent-Jay Simon (ISP).
School of Business: Yes—none. No—David Myers (CC), Donald Trotter (Ind). Absent—none.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Yes—Dennis Bosley (ISP), Darryl Bright (ISP), Gus di Zerega (ISP), Edward Dolan (ISP), Mary Gervin (ISP), Peter George (ISP), Gery Gortenburg (ISP), Joseph Hewitt (ISP), Beth Lindquist (ISP), Steven O'Neal (ISP), Bob Stoddard (PSA), Brian Sulkis (ISP). No-Ted Gardiner (PSA), Terry Satterlee (PSA). Absent—none.
School of Education: Yes—Rodney Oelschlager (PSA). No—Mark Corder (PSA), Sharon Harr (PSA), Carol Leek (PSA), Barbara Nash (PSA), Pamela Poynter (PSA), Larry Scott (PSA), Nancy Shorb (PSA). Absent—Kenneth Wiley (PSA).
School of Engineering: Yes-Harvey Goldberg (Engineering Coalition—EC). No-Richard Barrows (Engineering Alliance—EA), John Plump Jr. (EC, Steven Salvay (EC), DAve Sindelar (EA), Ron Sutton (EC). Absent—none.
School of Fine Arts: Yes—Richard Averill (ISP), Diana Wheeler (ISP). No—Gary Bond (PSA). Absent—Collene Collins (Ind), Gloria Polleshultz (CC).
Graduate School: Yes—David Blahna (Graduate Alliance-GA), Larry Chao (GA), Robert Demeritt (GA), Carol Irwin (GA), Narendra Taly (GA). No—Willis Jacob (GA), Jon Suggs (GA), Edward Wallen (GA), Weston (GA), Kenneth Gale (GA). Absent—David Sutherland (GA), Philip Weiss Jr. (GA).
School of Journalism: Yes-Mike Shearer (ISP). No-none. Absent-Tom Gleason (ISP).
School of Law: Yes - none. No-Frank Bangs Jr. (Ind), Chris Morgan (Ind). Absent - none.
School of Pharmacy: Yes—none. No—Craig Cassidy (Ind), Carol Engler (Ind). Absent—none.
Appointed Council members: Yes—Bill Hansen, Rick von Ende, Barbara Blee. No—Dean William Balfour, Dean Emily Taylor, Dean Donald Alderson, Mark Retonde, Keith Jorgenson, Frank Zilm. Absent—Brian Biles, Mike Gerber, Beverly Hetlein, Max Jackson, Marsha McLain.
Welfare mothers may aid slums
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Nixon administration is considering using a militant organization of welfare mothers as the administration's broker is dealing with disadvantaged slum dwellers.
Under a plan now on the desk of Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch, a grant of $100,000 a
year would be made to the National Welfare Rights Organization. The NWRO would use the money to guide persons with physical, emotional and other disabilities to state vocational rehabilitation and other agencies.
NWRO is made up almost entirely of mothers on relief. A
year ago the mothers staged a shouting match with Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., during his committee's consideration of a plan to restrict welfare payments. The mothers also staged a confrontation with police on Capitol Hill a year ago during the early days of the Poor People's Campaign.
James Meredith may be arrested
NEW YORK (UPI) — Bronx Criminal Court Judge Nicholas F. Delagi said yesterday civil rights leader James Meredith would be arrested if he answered to answer a summons for allegedly harassing tenants in the apartment house Meredith owns.