SDS banned from MU
The University of Missouri at Columbia chapter of Students for Democratic Society (SDS) has been banned from the MU campus.
Chancellor John Schwada of MU yesterday said he has withdrawn recognition of SDS for the remainder of the current academic year.
Schwada said the action was taken after "the SDS did, in fact, violate known and reasonable standards of behavior with the distribution of indecent literature."
William Wiecek, associate history professor, who describes himself as a "friend of SDS and sometime legal consultant" for the SDS, said the material being passed out by the MU chapter came from national SDS headquarters.
Wiecek said that the two pamphlets in question were entitled "New Left Notes" and "Movement."
Wiecek said one of the pamphlets contained a political cartoon which showed two policemen raping the Statue of
Liberty. The literature also contained words which had been called obscene by persons in the establishment. Wiecek said.
Schwada's statement reversed the decision of the Committee on Student Organizations, Government and Activities, a student-faculty committee, which decided March 2 to take no disciplinary action against SDS.
Wichita attorney says proposed abortion law is 'unconstitutional'
TOPEKA (UPI) - A Wichita attorney charged yesterday the proposed abortion law would give doctors the right to destroy an unborn child without due process of law.
An appeal of the committee's decision was made by Jack Matthews, dean of students, on the grounds the committee had failed to determine if the literature distributed by SDS members was obscene.
Francis Hesse, who is general counsel for St. Francis Hospital at Wichita, said the proposed abortion section is "socially dangerous and unconstitutional."
Matthews said he had no comment about his appeal or Schwada's decision to remove SDS from the MU campus.
Wiecke said, "The action of the Chancellor is arbitrary. It is the decision of one man. I think it is unjust for punishing a student organization for giving
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Margaret Burns, a student at Hayden High School in Topeka, and several of her classmates appeared before the hearing also. She read a student petition in opposition to the section signed by about sixty students at the high school.
Vincent DeCoursey, executive director of the conference, and Hesse both said this law would give Kansas the most liberal abortion law in the nation. It would even be more liberal than some in European nations, he said.
away material that the university sells and in some instances requires that the student read."
Wiecek said the university material he was referring to was the recent issue of Atlantic magazine which contained many of the same words found in the SDS literature considered obscene by the administration.
"For one history course, the university requires students to buy a pamphlet called 'New Radicals'," Wiecke said. "It contains a political cartoon similar to the one contained in the SDS literature.
Hesse was one of several witnesses who appeared for the Kansas Catholic Conference in opposition to the abortion proposal now before the House Judiciary Committee. The senate has already passed the abortion section which is part of the revised state criminal code.
"I think academic freedom is in danger at MU because of the Chancellor's decision to suppress a radical political group."
The Wichita attorney said he preferred the legislative delay any changes in the present abortion law until further study.
Wiecek said he would recommend to SDS that they appeal their case to the highest level, to the University Board of Curators, but did not know if SDS plans any future demonstrations.
The abortion section would allow legal abortions by a licensed physician in a licensed and accredited hospital. There would be no other requirements as in the present law. The doctors and hospitals would make the judgment on whether or not to perform the abortion.
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Hesse asked the committee "if there is ever a time when the legislature by mandate should allow one person to kill another without due process of law."
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Hesse charged that the proposed law would make the doctor the "judge, jury and executioner" of an unborn child. The child would be denied his right to due process of law, he said.
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