Needed to serve black cause
Few blacks in law schools
By PHYLLIS JONES Kansan Staff Writer
Approximately 100 persons heard Chester Lewis, Wichita attorney, and Charles Scott, Topeka attorney, discuss the black man and the law last night in the Kansas Union Pine Room.
Involved attorneys discuss profession Photo by Ron Bishop
At the informal meeting, in which persons stood around the walls, spilled outside the doorway, and, in one case, sat on the floor, both attorneys told of the definite need for black lawyers.
Scott, attorney for Andrew Rollins, black student leader at Kansas State University convicted of disturbing the peace for using obscene language in the student union, commented on the hesitation of black students to enter the legal profession.
"Although my father was a lawyer," Scott said, "I didn't want to be a lawyer because black lawyers didn't make much money. Besides, I was considering coaching."
At the Forum for Black Justice, Charles Scott, Topeka attorney, left, and Chester Lewis, Wichita attorney, right, discussed the need for blacks to serve their brothers through the law profession and through government service.
black man."
After serving in World War II, however, Scott said he realized the need for black lawyers to serve black people.
"A few years ago, it was shameful or disgraceful [for black lawyers] to be involved in controversial issues," Scott said. "But, because of the black movement, this attitude has changed. There is a definite need for lawyers to represent the
Many jobs available
Scott said many jobs are available for black lawyers.
"Because of discriminatory practices," he said, "black corporation lawyers are very few. Government service is also an open field for black lawyers."
Lewis, attorney for Leonard Harrison, director of the Lawrence Ballard Center, who is now facing charges of assault and extortion in Sedgwick County District Court, said "the legal profession offers every challenge that any occupation
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79th Year, No. 90
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 7, 1969
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
'Spider' leaves Apollo 9
SPACE CENTER, Houston • Two astronauts broke away from the Apollo 9 command ship in their lunar landing craft today and set out on a chase in space that could make or break U.S. plans to land men on the moon this summer.
With James A. McDivitt and Russell L. Schweickart at the controls, the lunar landing "Spider" unmatched at 7:38 a.m. EST from the Apollo mothership piloted by David R. Scott and flew on its own for the first time.
Mobs march on embassy
MOSCOW - Thousands of Russians marched on the Communist Chinese Embassy today to protest fighting that left 34 Soviet soldiers dead on the Sino-Soviet border.
Dozens of Soviet militia and plain clothes guards swarmed around the embassy. Crowds swept along the Moscow River bank toward the building. Trucks carrying scores of police and army troops were deployed in side streets near the diplomatic outpost.
SAN FRANCISCO - A suspected student saboteur at San Francisco State College was hospitalized in critical condition yesterday. He was blinded, his hands were almost ripped off and his chest was crushed by a premature bomb blast.
Student hurt in explosion
Police said Tim Peebles, 19, a freshman at the College, staggered bleeding and screaming through a dust-filled corridor minutes after the explosion ripped out Wednesday night in a musical instrument storage cubicle of the Creative Arts Building.
Kv threatens to quit talks
SAIGON - Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky today called for retaliation against North Vietnam for the shelling of South Vietnamese cities and indicated it is an open question whether his nation will continue to participate in the Paris peace talks.
Lewis to introduce motion to quash charge of assault
By RICK PENDERGRASS Kansan Staff
A charge of felonious assault against Mrs. Leonard Harrison, assistant instructor of history, was to be contested at 11:30 this morning by Chester Lewis, Wichita attorney, Lenonard Harrison said yesterday.
Lewis was to submit a motion in Douglas County District Court to quash the charge against Mrs. Harrison on grounds that the court has no jurisdiction in the case, and that the charges are unconstitutional because they are discriminatory. Harrison disclosed.
Harrison, director of the Ballard Community Center in Lawrence, said his wife is charged with assaulting a police officer last October 29.
In Sedgwick County District Court in Wichita yesterday, two of six counts against Harrison and eight other men were dismissed on a motion by Lewis, who is also Harrison's attorney.
Two charges dropped
Harrison was arrested the same day as his wife on charges of robbery, kidnapping, extortion, and
conspiracy. The four counts remaining against the men are three of extortion and one count of first-degree robbery.
Harrison's trial is scheduled for March 24 in Wichita.
Claims illegal arrests
The police officer Mrs. Harrison allegedly assaulted was Douglas County undersherd Wayne Schmille.
Harrison said the officers appeared at his house after he had been arrested. She did not know of his arrest at the time, he said. Harrison said they had warrants to search the house for evidence pertaining to his trial.
Mrs. Harrison said during the search she tried to use the phone to call W. S. Robinson, head of the history department, to tell him she would not be able to teach her class. She said the officers did not let her use the phone.
Schmille and Wichita police detective Gerald E. Skelton testified in the preliminary hearing that Skelton had stopped her from using the phone because he thought she was calling her husband, then sought by police in connection with his case.
Seek student representation on future Boards of Regents
With student representation on the Board of Regents as a possible long-range goal, a committee has been formed to improve communications between the Board and the State universities.
Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D. senior and student body president, said yesterday that the committee includes two faculty members from each state college, two student body presidents, two college presidents, and two members of the Board of Regents.
Conrad was elected to the
committee by the State Student-Body Presidents Association. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe is an ex-officio member.
Conrad said the average college graduation year for regents across the nation was 1925.
"There has been something missing in communication with the Board of Regents," Conrad said. "We talked about the communication problem with the Board during February in a meeting including two students from each State school."
"This does not facilitate communication." Conrad said.
He stressed the point that the committee was set up to help communication, not to directly discuss the possibility of student representation on the Board.
"But this doesn't mean we can't talk about it. I've heard of two universities that have student representation the University of Kentucky and Vanderbilt University." Conrad said.