Protestors remember American dead
Photo by Joc Bullard
War protesters gather in front of the Strong Hall rotunda while Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, reads the names of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam war. Most of the demonstrators later joined with ROTC protesters and then proceeded to Memorial Stadium where they forced the cancellation of the Chancellor's Review.
Demonstrators disrupt Review
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hesitantly following.
Below on the cinder track stood nearly 100 student and faculty ushers wearing blue armbands. The ushers were to keep persons not participating in the review off the field.
"We're going to have our memorial service on he field," a demonstrator shouted. "Let's go."
The demonstrators rushed down toward the bottom of the stands and hopped over the fences. The blue-banded ushers offered no resistance while the crowd crossed the reviewing stand into the field.
While the 150 protesters sat on the field, Ambrose Saricks, associate dean of the graduate school and chairman of the Senate Executive Committee, reminded the students of the previously published guidelines of behavior which forbade the entering onto the field by non-participants in the review
Meanwhile the demonstrators were asking the stands for a show of support. Of the 200 that stood up, only a handful went onto the field encouraged by more shouts of "join us."
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Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student, then took the megaphone and said, "We will be defensively violent. If they come to arrest us do not sit down and let them take you away. Run like hell all over the place. This thing is not going to be held here today."
After Atkinson's speech, Rick von Ende, Abilene graduate student and vice chairman of the Senate Executive Committee read over the stadium loudspeaker a resolution adopted by the Council of the University Senate. The resolution recognized the right
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe then arrived at the field accompanied by ROTC commanders. The men entered the reviewing stand while the cadets began to march onto the field.
of peaceful assembly for ROTC freedom of speech and reiterated the guidelines.
The demonstrators then rose, joining hands, and spread into a circle which encompassed two-thirds of the field.
At this point Wescoe signaled to Saricks who was in the press box and the announcement was made that the review was cancelled.
Docking reacts
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function in a normal and peaceful manner.
"But we will not be intimidated further. We do have ways of dealing with those who insist on violating our rules and regulations." he added.
Commenting on rumors that vigilant groups of students opposed to SDS and the demonstration Friday were "out to get the freaks," Wescoe said, "I think this is a natural reaction, but I cannot emphasize
too strongly that students cannot take the law into their own hands. I realize that emotions are running high, but anyone involved in vigilante type activities is as much at fault as those who originally violated the law."
A suit will be filed this week accusing the University and the students of violating the federal civil rights law, said Topeka Chief of Police Dana Hummer, president of the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police.
Townsend, in his letter to Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, said about 50 students claiming to be members of SDS marched across campus and into the police meeting.
a seminar, threw the notes of the speaker on the floor and otherwise disrupted the meeting."
It may be the first such suit in the nation.
During the disturbance, Townsend said, the officers sat quietly and did not attempt to interfere with the demonstrating students.
Russel Bradt, associate professor of math and chairman of the Universery Disciplinary Board (UDB), announced last night a tentatively open meeting of the UDB scheduled for Wednesday
A formal protest against the action of students involved in the disruption of a police seminar April 23 on campus has been filed by the Kansas Peace Officers Association President, Laverne Townsend, chief of police at Great Bend.
The statement read: "On Wednesday, May 14 at 1:30 p.m., the University Disciplinary Board will hold a hearing on the charges arising from the April 23 occurrences in the Kansas Union.
"The meeting will be held at Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall, and will be open to the public unless the charged students inform the Board that they do not consent to the admission of the public."
He said the group "by mob force entered the classroom where 30 officers were attending
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His protest, calling for an investigation of activities of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) on the campus was sent to the U.S. attorney general and the FBI.
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or a minority, in all its proper activities and functions. The University through its legally constituted executive, the Chancellor, and broadly representative legislative body, the University Senate, for which the Executive Committee acts, has the responsibility to define and interpret these rights, to establish guidelines for their implementation, and to provide effective mechanisms for dealing promptly, lawfully and fairly with their violation. As the University claims the authority to define, interpret and implement these rights, so also must it accept and indeed insist on the responsibility within itself to enforce and protect their uniform and unrestricted exercise. If the University does not fulfill this responsibility, then clearly one or the other of the unacceptable alternatives will come into being, sooner rather han later, and the University will die.
Peace officers file suit against University and SDS
carefully devised in light of these concepts. They were established by the Executive Committee, approved by the Chancellor, released to the news media and publicly announced on the site prior to the scheduled ceremony. The Guidelines were observed by the authorized participants and by the great majority of University members who were spectators for the event.
Guidlines for the Chancellor's ROTC Review scheduled for Friday, May 9, 1969, were deliberately and
Yet a small number of persons did violate the Guidelines established for the protection of the rights and welfare of all, by refusing to comply with lawful requests to leave the field so that the scheduled review could take place. The University will not delay in affording those identified and accused as villators of the Guidelines prompt and fair hearings by the constituted University authority under the University Senate Code. Thus will the University satisfy its accepted obligations in this matter, demonstrate its integrity and prove that it is able to govern itself as a responsible institution in society.
The University Senate
Executive Committee
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