THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Senate yields resolution backing ouster of rioters
By MARTHA MANGELSDORF and JUDY JARRELL
Kansan Staff Writers
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate yesterday suspended procedure and ramrodded through a resolution calling for the expulsion of rioting students and faculty members on state college and university campuses.
The resolution affirmed the legislature's belief in the right of freedom of speech and the right to dissent, but states that the rights of the majority should be protected from disruption and illegal dissent.
It calls on the Board of Regents, local school administrators, and student-faculty committees to "immediately dismiss" any student or faculty member who fails to obey the lawful order of a law enforcement officer during a demonstration or disturbance on campus
Decision almost unanimous
The vote was 33-to-2 in favor of the resolution. The resolution was requested in the Senate Federal and State affairs committee after the committee tabled Senate Bill 83.
Senate Bill 83 would have made similar provisions a law on the statute books. The resolution will be sent to the House for
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consideration, and if approved, sent to the Governor for signature.
A resolution does not have the force and effect of law, but merely expresses the will, sentiment, and feeling of the legislature, a source in the capitol explained yesterday. He said it is a means of avoiding an area formerly preserved for jurisdiction by the Board of Regents.
Senate President Pro Tem Glee S. Smith Jr., R-Larned, said he had feared that the bill would have been superfluous and, in fact, inflamatory.
He quoted educators who testified in hearing on the bill that the bill as it had been drafted would have created ill feeling on the part of many students and faculty members.
The committee had decided that the provision that a court decision be handed down would take too much time, with appeals and the like.
Dismissal bill pending
The House Federal and State Affairs committee has not yet taken action on House Bill 1144, which provides only for the immediate dismissal of students convicted after participation in campus demonstrations or disturbances.
Other states have passed or considered similar resolutions in this year's legislative sessions.
A Colorado legislative act intended to help curb campus disorders was signed Wednesday afternoon by Gov. John Love.
The bill makes it a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of $1,000 for anyone to interfere with a college student or faculty member seeking to attend classes.
It also imposes the same penalties against any outsider who refuses to leave a college campus at the direction of the school's administrator or his representatives.
The same afternoon, Texas House members rushed passage on a bill providing criminal penalties for persons engaging in violent campus disruptions at the state's public and private schools and colleges.
The bill provides a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $200 fine for persons acting together to obstruct hallways or doors, seize control of buildings, prevent classes, disrupt classes or obstruct campus gates.
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, February 28, 1969
In support of Harrison . . .
Fliers explain case
By RICK PENDERGRASS
Kansan Staff Writer
A group of students in the Institutional Racism course passed
out fliers last night in support of Leonard Harrison and eight other men charged with extortion and assault.
The students were stationed on
Photo by Rick Pendergrass
Handbill charges racism
Passers-by inspect handbills which charge racism in the courts, distributed by students in the Institutional Racism course in support of Leonard Harrison.
The fliers, entitled, "Is Justice Blind?" contain a brief history of the case and offer opinions about what the writer said was "racism in the courts . . ." and "political motivations behind the charges."
street corners in downtown Lawrence and at various shopping centers throughout the city.
The Institutional Racism course is a non-credit course including a series of lectures by personalities who have worked with the racism and civil rights problems, explained one of the students.
Harrison did not know of the action.
Harrison's lawyer, Chester Lewis, will appear in a hearing today in Sedgwick County to submit a motion to quash the charges against Harrison and the eight other men.
Jay Mason, Hobbs, N.M., sophomore, said the groups were handing out the fliers on a suggestion from one of the group leaders.
"The students in the course wanted to do something to show we care about what happens around us." he said.
"The main problem we are dealing with is apathy," said one of the students. "Most people don't even know about the Harrison case—and if they do, they don't care."
About the hearing today, the fliers explain, "The court will hear the defense motions to quash the charges of extortion and assault alleged against the nine black men as being insufficient and invalid."
The fliers charge that the public has been misinformed about the case, saying, "The details of the Harrison case have been reported
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69th Brigade may return
Airline mechanics strike
TOPEKA, Kan. — Adjutant General Joe Nickell yesterday said the National Guard Bureau in Washington has "strongly indicated" members of the 69th Brigade of the Kansas National Guard now on active duty at Fort Carson, Colo., will be released in December this year.
The charges and countercharges at the Paris peace talks came just one day before Nixon was to arrive in Paris.
WASHINGTON - American Airlines suspended all operations yesterday because of a strike by mechanics and other workers. Hundreds of flights were cancelled at airports all across the country and thousands of passengers were forced to use other airlines.
U.S. denies Viet claim
PARIS — U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge warned the Communists yesterday that their new offensive in South Vietnam raised the threat of allied reprisals. The Viet Cong countered with an unprecedented attack on President Nixon and his "vile designs."
Ike doing satisfactorily
WASHINGTON — Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's recovery from intestinal surgery "continues satisfactorily" and he has "been resting comfortably" since Wednesday, Walter Reed Army Hospital reported yesterday.