Turmoil
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Irvine Auditorium yesterday to explain to students an agreement with university trustees which ended a six-day sit-in at College Hall Sunday night. The trustees agreed to guarantee housing for a nearby Negro community disrupted by an urban renewal project. The university plans to build a science center on the renewal tract.
Pickets ignored
About 25 white pickets appeared outside Lincoln Hall at the University of Illinois' Champaign campus yesterday, urging a classroom boycott by the school's 30,000 students. Most students ignored the pickets and attendance at a teach-in sponsored by SDS was sparse.
Pennsylvania State University students demanded that Eric A. Walker the school's president, reply to their "non-negotiable" demands for abolition of academic credit for ROTC, a ban on military recruiting on the campus, and permission for women students to live off campus.
for interpretation of the Board of Curators By-laws with regard to censorship."
MU tensions ease
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After.the scheduled speakers had finished, Rich invited anyone who wished to speak to come to the microphone set up on the steps of the administration building.
Speakers accepting the invitation addressed the dwindling crowd until 4:30 p.m.
Later, in the meeting of the Committee of Student Affairs and Conduct, it was decided not to drop charges against the students directly involved in distributing the "obscene" literature.
Crime code clears Senate
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vetoed a similar highway construction bill, his primary objection being the gasoline tax increase.
Open housing
The Senate, Thursday, sent an open housing bill which further implements federal law to the House. It provides a penalty of up to $1,000 in punitive damages, actual damages and if need is shown, a complaintant's attorney
fees, upon conviction of the civil suit.
Student dissent
Mars probe 'on target'
Rep. Lawrence D. Slocombe, R-Merriam and author of House Bill 1144, which provides for the immediate dismissal of any university student participating in disturbances or demonstrations and disregarding authority, said the bill was designed to give university officials more authority in curbing student dissent.
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) - A television probe with an American eagle emblazoned on its side, streaked flawlessly towards Mars Sunday in what might be a race with Russia to explore the one planet that might harbor life.
The $64 million Mariner 6 spacecraft will scout 10 per cent of the Red Planet's surface and look for clues to the existence of plant life in the harsh Martian environment.
"We're well on our way," said the Mariner project manager, Harris Schurmeier, 90 minutes after launch. "It looks like we're right on target."
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Mariner 6 began its five-month, 226-million mile odyssey at 7:29 p.m. on an Atlas Centaur rocket that rode a brilliant plume of orange flame into space on what the project officials said was a flawless launch.
Slocome's bill will be reported out of committee and debated on the House floor this week.
Weather
Variable cloudiness today and tomorrow with highs in the upper 40s is the U.S. Weather Bureau's prediction for Lawrence and vicinity. Lows tonight in the mid 30s. Precipitation probability near zero today increasing to 10 per cent tonight and tomorrow.
The vote that carried the bill was 36 yeas to 1 nay. House action is expected this week.
Attorney will discuss drug use on campus
Milton Allen, Lawrence city attorney, will speak at KU on the "Legal Prosecution of Drug Abusers," at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Green Hall New Courtroom.
Allen will fill in for Lt. Gov James H. DeCoursey who was originally scheduled to speak but has postponed his visit until March 5.
Allen will lecture about the extent of drug use on campus and the court procedures against abusers, said Robert Van Cleave Kansas City law student and head of the law speakers bureau.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
VC opens new offensive
SAIGON - North Vietnamese soldiers sprang from the jungle darkness today and in human waves smashed into two U.S. Marine camps just below the Demilitarized Zone, killing 30 Leathernecks and wounding 115.
Part of the 40,000-man guerrilla threat to Saigon battled U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers guarding the city, despite one of the heaviest Allied bombardments of the war into the capital's "rocket belt."
Autopsy pictures shown
LOS ANGELES — Grisly color photographs of the bullet puncture of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's shaved head were produced
The photographs were made at the autopsy performed after Kennedy's death and they showed in shocking detail the ugly wound just behind his ear.
Ike resting after surgery
WASHINGTON — Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower rested "as comfortably as can be expected" yesterday after undergoing risky surgery made necessary by the growth in his intestines of scar tissue from an old operation.
"His life signs are stable and his cardiac condition is stable," reported Col. John L. Bradley in
a midmorning medical bulletin issued by Walter Reed Army Medical Center where the two hour and 20 minute operation was performed Sunday night.
Truman to get checkup
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Former President Harry S. Truman has recovered from a sudden attack of the flu but will remain hospitalized to undergo his first thorough physical checkup in more than three years, it was reported yesterday.
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